Cold War and Decolonization - Unit 3 - Vocabulary

Question 1

Cold War

Answer 1

a war fought by the capitalist (Americans and some European countries) fighting against communist party (Russia)

Question 2

Decolonization

Answer 2

When countries that were colonized made movements or started wars by independence

Question 3

Communism

Answer 3

economic system in which the government controls all aspect of the economy making all economic decisions - goal is equality

Question 4

Capitalism

Answer 4

economic system, in which individuals make all the economic choices

Question 5

Berlin Wall

Answer 5

a wall that separated west and east berlin and soviet union (kept the soviets in like a prison)

Question 6

United Nations

Answer 6

a group of nations who basically had an alliance that was about going into war, and if countries attack one country the other main countries (brittan, France, US, Russia and China) would help attack as well.

Question 7

Mohandas Gandhi

Answer 7

one of the leaders of the independence for India. He was peaceful and wanted to avoid war.

Question 8

Munhammad Ali Jinnah

Answer 8

Leader of the idea for separate homeland for muslims and hindus

Question 9

Amritsar Massacre

Answer 9

a conflict where people gathered and British openly defended killing thousands of citizens creating a massacre.

Question 10

Salt March

Answer 10

a long march in order to produce homemade salt as a result of not supporting british government economically

Question 11

Nonviolent Civil Disobedience

Answer 11

acts to rebellion without violence such as boycott

Question 12

Partition

Answer 12

the speeding up process of transferring power in 10 months by India

Question 13

Mao Zedong

Answer 13

dictator of china who introduced communism for china

Question 14

Deng Xiaoping

Answer 14

a revolutionary leader in china whom controlled military men and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the republic of china

Question 15

Chinese Civil War

Answer 15

conflict between communism in china trying to avoid communism

Question 16

Great Leap Forward

Answer 16

Mao Zedong launched a campaign to encourage china as a communist republic

Question 17

Red Guard

Answer 17

China’s younger people were urged to revive the revolution which had the goal to make everyone equal.

Question 18

Cultural Revolution

Answer 18

a moment to purge the communist party

Question 19

Patrice Lumumba

Answer 19

prime minister of the congo, who advocated independence for the Congo

Question 20

National Congolese Movement

Answer 20

A very popular political party that wasn’t based on regional or ethnic identities in the Congo that demanded independence from Britain.

Question 21

Joseph Kasavubu

Answer 21

the first president of the congo

Question 22

Joseph Mobutu

Answer 22

took over presidency after Kasavubu surrendered, and tried to turn the congo economy into a communist

Question 23

Salvador Allende

Answer 23

Former president of Chile, who had to surrender

Question 24

Augusto Pinochet

Answer 24

president of chile, after he overthrew Allende to surrender

Question 25

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Answer 25

agency that analyzed the importance during the cold war between countries

Question 26

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 26

Soviet Union and Russian Politician

Question 27

Leonid Brezhnev

Answer 27

General secretary of the communist party

Question 28

Glasnost

Answer 28

A policy of openness

Question 29

Perestroika

Answer 29

restoring economic and political systems in the Soviet Union

Question 30

Velvet Revolution

Answer 30

The transition of power to Czechoslovakia