Selective Borrowing		A Chinese Communist Program to boost farm and industrial output that failed miserably
Rhur Valley		Chinese dynasty from 618 to 907
Literacy Rate		Member of the warrior class in Japanese feudal society
Great Leap Forward		Muslim religious warriors
Glasnost		Romania's longtime dictator; was overthrown and executed
Samurai		The forced joining together of workers and property into collectives
Trade Surplus		President of the US during the Cuban Missle Crisis
Ideology		A very large, damaging wave caused by an earthquake or very strong wind
Luftwaffe		Secret police in Nazi Germany
Tsunami		The relaxation of Cold War tensions during the 1970's
Syngman Rhee		Lightning War
Chancellor		A Polish labor union and democracy movement
Nikita Khrushchev		Korean dynasty that ruled from 668 to 935
Demilitarized Zone		Act passed by the US Congress in 1941 that allowed the president to sell or lend war supplies to any country whose defense was considered vital to the US
Indemnity		The father of Kim Jong Il
Collectivization		A Chinese Communist program to purge China of nonrevolutionary tendencies that caused economic and social damage
Detente		A Soviet policy of democratic and free-market reforms introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev
Gentry		Korean dynasty that ruled from 935 to 1392
Song Dynasty		President of the US who told Gorbachev to tear down the wall
Pagoda		Porcelain made in Korea with an unusual blue-green glaze
Dowry		Difference between how much a country imports and how much it exports
Extraterritoriality		Adopting or adapting some cultural traits but discarding others
38th Parallel		The systematic genocide of Eruopean Jews in Nazi Germany
Nicolae Ceausescu		The Japanese writing system
Cultural Revolution		Independent state that has to acknowledge the supremacy of another state and pay tribute to its ruler
Balance of Trade		Korea's most celebrated ruler, he decided to replace the complex Chinese system of writing
Pusan Perimeter		Detention center for civilians considered enemies of the state
Concentration Camps		A chain of islands
Containment		Payment for losses in war
Bushido		Code of conduct for samurai for during the feudal period in Japan
King Sejong		A defensive line around the city of Pusan
Archipelago		Percentage of people who can read
Kim Il Sung		Nations stronger than other powerful nations
Holocaust		Payment a bride's family makes to the groom's family for marriage
Shinto		"Openness" in Russian; a Soviet reform introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev
Choson Dynasty		Coal rich industrial region of Germany
Superpowers		Break up of large agricultural holdings for redistribution among peasants
Kana		Wealthy, landowning class
Tributary State		Soviet premier who put missles in Cuba
Land Reform		Korean dynasty that ruled form 1392 to 1910; the longest of Korea's three dynasties
Leonid Brezhnev		Situation in which a country imports more goods than it exports
Gestapo		The US strategy of keeping communism within its existing boundaries
Third Reich		A thin band of territory separating North and South Korea
Tang Dynasty		Chinese dynasty from 960 to 1279; known for artistic achievments
Lend-Lease Act		Right of foreigners to be protected by the laws of their own nation
Solidarity		Alphabet that uses symbols to represent the sounds of spoken Korean
Hangul		Multistoried Buddhist temple with eaves that curve up at the corners
Blitzkrieg		Khrushchev's successor
John F Kennedy		Noncommunist leader, US backed him up
Perestroika		German air force
Mujahedin		Principle religion in Japan that emphasizes the worship of nature
Silla Dynasty		Laws approved by the Nazi Party; it deprived the Jews of German citizenship and other rights
Celadon		The dividing line between North and South Korea
Koryo Dynasty		A Czech reformer
Vaclev Havel		Situation in which a country exports more goods than it imports
Trade Deficit		Official name of the Nazi party for its regime in Germany
Nuremburg Laws		System of thought and belief
Roland Reagan		The highest official of a monarch, prime minister