Step 2: Explain Why It Matters

Put your reading into practice. Identify each term below, and then explain why it matters in world history.

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TERM WHO OR WHAT & WHEN WHY IT MATTERS
Cold War
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
NATO
superpowers
dependency theory
modernization theory
import substitution industrialization (ISI)
liberation theology
Muslim League
Arab socialism
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Great Leap Forward
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Red Guards
Pan-Africanists
cocoa holdups
pieds-noirs
National Liberation Front
economic nationalism
populists
de-Stalinization
Common Market
Civil Rights Act