Hadley #8
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- Warsaw Pact
- An international defense alliance between the Soviet Union and many of its Eastern European satellite states as a response to NATO. Formed in 1955.
- Treaty of Versailles
- peace treaty signed by Germany & the Allied powers in 1919 after World War I which demanded compensation & acceptannce of blame from Germany
- westernization
- an adoption of the social, political, or economic institutions of Western - especially European or American - countries
- United Nations
- international organization founded in 1945 to promote world peace and progress
- Patriot Act
- This law passed after 9/11 expanded the tools used to fight terrorism and improved communication between law enforcement and intelligence agencies
- urbanization
- The process of city building and movement of people to cities
- totalitarianism
- Political system in which the gov. controls every aspect of a citizens life
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- 1948 document created by the UN and - states that all people should have the right to life, liberty and security
- Zionism
- A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- Vedas
- perhaps the oldest written text on our planet today, date back to the beginning of Indian civilization earliest literary records of thearyan race