Chapter 4, The world after the war e3a Flashcards
Prehistory
Up to 3000 BC
Antiquity
3000 BC - 500
Middle ages
500 - 1500
Early modern times
1500 - 1800
Modern times
1800+
Time of hunters and farmers
Up to 3000 BC
Time of Greeks and Romans
3000 BC - 500
Time of monks and knights
500 - 1000
Time of cities and states
1000 - 1500
Time of discoverers and reformers
1500 - 1600
Time of regents and monarchs
1600 - 1700
Time of wigs and revolutions
1700 - 1800
Time of citizens and steam engines
1800 - 1900
Time of the world wars
1900 - 1950
Time of television and computer
1950+
What did both the US and the SU support?
Decolonisation
Why did the British leave India?
Because of violence between the Hindus and Muslims
Which state did the Muslims in India make in 1947?
Pakistan
What does Zionism mean?
Jewish nationalism
Who won each time between the Arab countries and Israel?
Israel
What’s the ‘police action’?
The Dutch attack against Indonesia in 1947
What is ‘regime’?
Government
When were all African countries Indepent ?
1990
Which countries were with the west?
Mainly the US, and Western Europe, also Taiwan and Japan
Which countries were with the east?
Mainly the SU, and Eastern Europe, also Cuba, Vietnam and China for a while
What were both the sides military alliance?
NATO and the Warsaw pact
What were the political systems?
Democracy and communism
What were the economical systems?
Capitalism and communism
What were some keywords for the West?
Freedom, individual, long history, liberalism
What were some keywords for the East?
Equality, state, collective, 19th century, Marx, Russian revolution 1917
What do both sides have in common?
The French Revolution and anti-colonialism
What was the containment policy?
The American policy in the Cold War aimed at governments that fought against communism. To reduce communism
What was the Marshall plan?
A part of the containment policy that was an economic aid for Western Europe
What state did the West Germans create?
BRD, bundesrepublik Deutschland
Which state did the east East Germans create?
DDR, Deutsche Demokratische Republik (niet democratisch )
What is the dividing line between the communist Eastern Bloc and the capitalist Western Europe called?
The Iron curtain
When did North Korea invade South Korea?
1950
What are missiles?
Raketten - nuclear bombs
Who came after Stalin?
Nikita Khrushchev
When did he order the Berlin Wall to be built?
1961
What happened in 1962?
Russian missiles had been shipped to Cuba. The communist Fidel Castro has seized power there. A few days after John f. Kennedy demanded Khrushchev to stop, he gave in.
After the Cuban missile crisis there were …. years of détente
15
Around ….. the tensions grew again
1980
After 1985 the Cold War suddenly stopped because of the new Soviet leader: ….
Mikhail Gorbachev
When was the Cold War?
1945 - 1989
When did the Soviet Union come to an end?
1991
What is a common market?
An area of several countries with free trade without import tariffs
In 1948 the first European trade started with what name?
Benelux, België nederland and Luxemburg
In 1951 the ECSC started, what does ECSC stand for and which countries were involved?
The European Coal and Steel Community, France Italy Germany België Nederland Luxemburg
Where was the board of the EEC? And what does it stand for?
Brussels, European Economic Community
The …………….. has to determine whether countries respect human rights
European court of human rights
What are developing counties?
The ones that are changing from agricultural urban societies to industrial societies
Who led the communist China in 1949?
Mao Zedong
What did he do with the Great Leap Forward?
Make China the most prosperous country by: 1 taking away all private possessions 2 making farmers work on mega projects
Famine broke out, what does famine mean?
Hongersnood
The Great Leap Forward ended in
1961, around how many people died?
40 million
Who made South Korea into a well-functioning parliamentary democracy with a good economy?
General Park
