AP World Ch 30- Post Cold War World

Asian Tigers

Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan; four swaller states that are high in the economy

Microsoft and Google

Multinational corporations who invested in the Indian Economy

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/ GATT

Lifted restrictive barriers on trade

Protective Tariffs

Taxes on foreign imports

Global Brands

Companies that people everywhere became familiar with

Favelas

Slums in India

Air Pollution

Increased in China due to coal burning in factories and powerplants

Water Pollution

Serious problem in China; rivers undrinkable

Three Gorges Dam

Largest hydroelectric power station in China; caused lots of environmental problems

South-North Water Diversion Project

Major project to relocate water to North China

Green Revolution

Response to hunger

Cross Breeding

Breeding two varieties of a plant to create a hybrid

Genetic Engineering

Manipulating a cell or organism to change its base characteristics

Global Warming

Increase in the average temperature of the world

Carbon Footprint

The amount of carbon dioxide that each person produces

Fossil Fuels

Sources of power that cause pollution

Greenhouse Effect

Causes global warming

Kyoto Protocol

Reduced carbon emissions

Earth Day

Day for people to focus on environmental themes

Greenpeace

Multinational agency to help the environment

Green Belt Movement

African organization to plant trees and stop deforestation

Alternative Energy Sources

Less harmful sources of energy although more expensive

Antibiotic

Useful agent in curing bacterial infection

Malaria

Disease transmitted by parasites in mosquitoes that kill thousands in Africa

Tuberculosis

Bacteria that affects he lungs

Cholera

Bacterial disease spread through contaminated water

Smallpox

Disease that was finally eliminated from the entire world

Polio

Virus that causes paralysis and death; mostly eliminated

Jonas Salk

American researcher who created a vaccine against polio

Albert Sabin

Made an oral vaccine for polio

Human Immunodeficiency Virus/ HIV

Causes AIDS

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/ AIDS

Disease that kills many and does not have a cure yet

Antiretroviral Drugs

Stops HIV from weakening the immune system

Ebola

Deadly disease that had a huge outbreak in West Africa but was contained

Diabetes

Disease that affects how the body uses blood sugar; lifestyle disease

Insulin

Used to help treat diabetes

Heart Disease

Lifestyle disease that hurts the heart

Heart Transplant

Used to replace a failing heart with a new one

Artificial Heart

Temporary heart for a heart transplant

Alzheimer's Disease

Form of dementia in elderly; continue to search for a cure

Internet

Connected the world; easier communication

Anime

Japanese animation that became popular among Western youth

Bollywood

Film industry in India

Americanization

Spreading American culture across the world

Ethnic Cleansing

Killing entire ethnicities

Apartheid

South Africa's system of separating whites and blacks as much as possible

Pass Laws

Required blacks in South Africa to carry identity documents when enetering white areas

Nelson Mandela

Leader of ANC; when put in jail for life for trying to end apartheid, it brought attention to the world and led to many protests; became the 1st black leader of South Africa

F.W. de Klerk

President of South Africa who freed Nelson Mandela

Saddam Hussein

Iraq's brutal dictator

Osama bin Laden

Financed al-Qaeda

Slobodan Milosevic

Led Serbian nationalists in the genocide

Omar Al-Bashir

Sudan President who was convicted of war crimes

World Trade Organization/ WTO

Made rules for worldwide trade

African National Congress/ ANC

Primary goals were to end white domination and create a multiracial South Africa

Amnesty International and International Red Cross

Report that hundreds to thousands were killed at Tiananmen Square

New World Order

One in which the US would lead the way in unifying and securing the world

Iraq

Muslims country in the Middle East

Persian Gulf War

War against Iraq in which Saddam Hussein's forces were driven out of Kuwait

Terrorist Networks

Groups that intimidated and murdered civilians to achieve policies

Al-Qaeda

One of the deadliest groups; attacked the US at 9/11

September 11, 2001

Attack on the US by al-Quada in which the world supported the US

Mumbai

City in India in which Bollywood is in

Afghanistan

Country in which the US invaded to try to get bin Laden

Taliban

Islamic group that controlled Afghanistan

Iraq War

Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein was hiding weapons and helped with 9/11, so the US envaded; no links were found and ended US sympathy

Bosnia

Genocide that took place in which many Serbs killed others in Yugoslavia

Balkanization

Disintegration into separate states

Rwanda-Hutu/ Tutsi

Genocide in which the Hutus killed the Tutsis

Darfur

Region in western Sudan in which a genocide against non-Arab Muslim Africans were killed

Sudan

Country in North-West Africa

Janjaweed

Arab militants unleashed by the Sudanese government

South Sudan

Separated from Sudan in 2011

World Health Organization/ WHO

World organization to deal with diseases

Doctors Without Borders

International NGO that helps people in poorer countries

UNICEF

Provides food for children in war hit Europe