Chapter 17 and 18 Quiz

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Who improved seeds, pesticides, mechanical equipment, and farming methods that was introduced in the developing world beginning in the 1950s?
Green Revolution
What is a black township in SSouth Africa where the government killed anti-apartheid demonstrators in 1960s.
Sharpville
What is a region in western Sudan where ethnic conflict threatened to lead to genocide?
Darfur
The killing of forcible removal of people of different ethnicitieis from an area by aggressors so that only the ethnic group of the aggressors remian is what?
Ethnic cleansing
In Rwanda, ethnic majority, slaughtered members of the country's ethnic minority?
Hutus
PLO was headed by this man?
Yasir Arafat
Seized power in Iraq and ruled as a dictator
Saddam Hussein
A policy of rigid segregation of non-white people in the Republic of South Africa
Apartheid
Nations working toward development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
Developing world
Holiest day of the Jewish calender
Yom Kippur
Economies that rely on habit, custom, or ritual and tend not to change over time
Traditional economies
Ability to read and write
Literacy
Made up of several ethnic groups
Multiethnic
Armed groups of citizen soldiers
Millitas
The process of building a stronger and more advanced economy and creating higher living standards
Democracy