Chapter 31 Decolonization Revolution and the Cold War Flashcards
Cold War
922
The postwar conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Truman Doctrine
922
American policy of preventing the spread of Communist rule.
Marshall Plan
922
American plan for providing economic aid to Europe to help it rebuild.
NATO
923
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, an anti-Soviet military alliance of Western nations.
Dependency Theory
925
The belief that development in some areas of the world locks other nations into underdevelopment.
Modernization Theory
925
The belief that all countries evolved in a linear progression from traditional to mature.
Import Substitution Industrialization
925
The use of trade barriers to keep certain products out of one’s country so that domestic industry can emerge and produce the same goods.
Liberation Theology
927
A movement within the Catholic Church to support the poor in situations of exploitation that emerged with particular force in Latin America in the 1960s.
Muslim League
929
Political party in colonial India that advocated for a separate Muslim homeland after independence.
Arab Socialism
930
A modernizing, secular, and nationalist project of nation building aimed at economic development and the development of a strong military.
Palestine Liberation Organization PLO
931
Created in 1964, a loose union of Palestinian refugee groups opposed to Israel and united in the goal of gaining Palestinian home rule.
Great Leap Forward
932
Mao Zedong’s acceleration of Chinese development in which industrial growth was to be based on small-scale backyard workshops run by peasants living in gigantic self-contained communes.
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
934
A movement launched by Mao Zedong that attempted to purge the Chinese Communist Party of long-serving bureaucrats and recapture the revolutionary fervor of his guerrilla struggle.
Pan-Africanists
938
People who sought black solidarity and envisioned a vast self-governing union of all African peoples.
Cocoa Holdups
938
Mass protests in the 1930s by Gold Coast producers of cocoa who refused to sell their beans to British firms and instead sold them directly to European and American chocolate manufacturers.
