9-30 Flashcards
Meaning of history.
-Our Creator’s story
Definitions: Government, sovereign, nation, and humanism.
- Government: Institution that has both authority and power to control, direct and to rule in the actions and affairs of others
- Sovereign: that God has supreme power over all nations and individuals, all governments and their respective behaviour are accountable to God
- Nation: is a large group of people who think of themselves as one and act in history as a single entity
- Humanism: The worship of man
Name the two great periods.
- Before Christ (B.C)
- After Christ (A.D)
The three eras of time.
- Ancient history
- Medieval history
- Modern history
Descendants of Noah’s son, Ham
- Africa
- Pakistan
- India
- Australia
- Aegean Sea
- South Pacific
Descendants of Noah’s son, Shem.
- Modern Arabs
- Jews
- Artic regions
- Pacific islands
- First native Americans
Descendants of Noah’s son, Japheth.
- Europe
- Russia ❤️
- India
- Middle East
Two superpowers countries.
- United States
- Soviet Union
Four proxy wars during the Cold War.
- The Korean War
- The Vietnam war
- Yom Kippur War
- Soviet Afghanistan war
Three countries with their own nuclear weapons.
- Great Britain ❤️
- France❤️
- China ❤️
When did the cold begin and why end?
- After World War II ended, in 1945
- Because the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991
Why did Stalin create labor camps and also famines?
- Labor camps for anyone who disagreed with the government
- Famines in order to break the will of the people and gain total control
Meaning of MAD, SALT I and II.
- MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction, major factor in the Cold War
- SALT I and II: an agreement between industries to reduce arms
Mao Zedong
Leader of communist china for many years
Maoism
Type of communism in China
Vladimir Lenin
Begins communism on Russia
Karl Marx
The father of communism
August 29, 1949
Soviet Union successfully tested its first atomic bomb
In the 1950’s…
The United States and the Soviet Union worked on developing a Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
1953
Soviet Union exploding their first hydrogen bomb
1952
United States detonated the first hydrogen bomb
The Tower of Babel and its importance to civilisation. **
- The Tower of Babel was planned by Nimrod, it was planned a tower reaching far into the sky to be at the same level of God. And this was a symbol of man’s rebellion against God.
- It is important, because of that Tower, God responded to the rebellious by confusing their one language so that they couldn’t understand each other.
