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- By the year 2000 the United Nations had how many members?
- 188
- This country was the largest of all the colonies
- India
- Many of the newly independent nations during the COld War were called non aligned nations or ______ nations
- Third World Nations
- East Pakistan became this new separate nation in 1971.
- Bangladesh
- This egypian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956 firmly establishing his nation's independence from Britain.
- Nasser
- This was the first black African country to win its independence, in 1957
- Ghana
- The first step in the Non-aligned nations movement was taken in 1955 when leaders from Africa and Asia met in this new country.
- Indonesia
- ____ is a term that refers to the relationship of plants, animals, and humans to their environment and to one another.
- ecology
- This 1962 book by Rachel Carson exposedt the devastating effects on humans, wildlife, and plants, caused by the use of toxic chemicals.
- Silent SPring
- In 1949 communist revolutionaries took control of China, led by _____
- Mao Zedong
- After World War II, statesmen, political philosphers, and common people sought to create a global institution that could counterbalance the destructive power of the _____ state
- Leviathan
- In 1945, fifty nations joined together to estanlish the _____ _____
- United Nations
- Similar to major empires of the past, the United States after the second world war provided a kind of _____ to a war weary world
- Pax Americana
- The United States provided more that $12 billion to rebuild Europe under the ___ plan
- Marshall
- This leader proclaimed "an iron curtain has descended across the continent"
- Winston Churchill
- THe United STates created this alliance in 1949
- NATO
- In response the NATO, the Soviet Union established this among Eastern European communist satellite states.
- Warsaw Pact
- The Soviet blockade of this city in 1948 was circumvented by a United States airlift.
- Berlin
- When the Soviet Union established nuclear missile bases in this nation in 1962, the world was on the brink of nuclear Armageddon
- Cuba
- The USSR suffered its "Vietnam" in this nation, 1979-1989
- Afganistan
- In 1991, twelve of the fifteen former members of the USSR formed this regional organization
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- The United Nations agency that deals with issues susch as territorial rights.
- World COurt
- The United Nations agencty that provides financial assistance to developing antions is the____ _____.
- World Bank
- In 1997 RUssia joined this group of powerful industiral nation known today as the_-_
- G-8
- This cartel, led by Saudi Arabia, was founded in 1960.
- OPEC
- The ratification of the Treaty of Maastricht in 1993 converted the European Community into the ______ ______.
- European Union
- This nation divided into six republics and bloody warfare following the death of Marshal TIto and the collapse of communism in 1989.
- Yugoslavia
- Rev. Martin LUther King, Jr. adapted non-violent protest marches and sit-ins from this man.
- Gandhi
- This authors book, The Feminine Mystique, addressed American homemakers who wer ebeginning to seek jobs and careers outside the home.
- Betty Friedman
- This UN agency monitors and researches health conditions.
- World Health Organization (WHO)