Cold War & Decolonization - APWMH

Question 1

Iron curtain

Answer 1

division between free and communist societies in Europe

Question 2

Marshall Plan

Answer 2

program of loans that were designed to aid Western nations rebuilding from WWII’s devastation and help prevent spread of communism

Question 3

De-Stalinization

Answer 3

easing up on Stalin’s policies and the creation of a more tolerant political climate

Question 4

Cuban Missle Crisis

Answer 4

USSR installed missles in Cuba

Question 5

Sputnik

Answer 5

first space satellite

Question 6

Red Scare

Answer 6

period of intense concern for communist conspiracies

Question 7

Truman Doctrine

Answer 7

provide military and finacial aid to Greece and Turkey to prevent them falling to communism

Question 8

Domino Theory

Answer 8

if one country becomes communist, others will follow

Question 9

NATO

Answer 9

created as a defensive alliance against possible Soviet aggression

Question 10

Warsaw Pact

Answer 10

USSR with eastern satalite countries created communist empire

Question 11

Portuguese Colonial War

Answer 11

independence from Portugal was achieved through armed struggle in Angola

Question 12

Sandinistas

Answer 12

Marxist-Lenninist party that established control after overthrowing the existing government in Nicaragua

Question 13

Contras

Answer 13

group of guerrilla “freedom fighters” opposed to the Sandinistas Marixist gov. of Nicaragua

Question 14

Prague Spring

Answer 14

Czechoslovakia stands up to USSR, USSR invades

Question 15

Hundred Flowers Campaign

Answer 15

Mao encouraged intellectuals to speak out about Communist rule

Question 16

Great Leap Foward

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attempted to bring about industrialization at the local, rural level, in China

Question 17

Little Red Book

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Mao’s attempt to spread Communist thought

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Gang of Four

Answer 18

plotted to overthrow Chinese Communists and reinstate Mao

Question 19

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 19

led the party and adapted Marxism to work for the peasant majority in Vietnam

Question 20

Mengistu Haile Mariam

Answer 20

leader of the Deng, a military gov. that governed Ethiopia

Question 21

Reza Shah Pahlavi

Answer 21

leader of Iran, launched a series of wide-reaching reforms starting in 1963 called the White Revolution

Question 22

Pan-African Congress

Answer 22

meetings heldto coordinate and discuss independence for Africa

Question 23

Kwama Nkrumah

Answer 23

led the decolonization process to establish Ghana out of what was the Gold Coast colony of British

Question 24

Algerian Liberation Front

Answer 24

Algerian nationalist grew after WWI and especially after WWII. Independence war fought from 1954-1962 between France

Question 25

Biafra

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an Igbo nationalist and secessionist unrecognized state in West Africa which existed from May 1967 to Jan 1970

Question 26

Nigerian Civil War

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war fought between the gov. and seccessionist state of Biafra

Question 27

Viet Minh

Answer 27

used guerilla fighting against the French and Japanese to gain control of northern Vietnam

Question 28

Geneva Conference

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determined Vietnam will be dividing into Viet Minh-controlled north and French south

Question 29

Government of India Act

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Grants increased suffrage to Indians and transferred local governments to Indians

Question 30

Quit India Movement

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was a massive civil disobedience movement to end British control of India

Question 31

Quebecois Separatist movement

Answer 31

A French Canadian movement that aimed to create an independent state based on Quebecois-French-Canadian culture

Question 32

Six Day War

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Egyptian war with Isreal, Nasser defeated

Question 33

Green Revolution

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In India, improve agricultural production by increasing crops through high-yeild, disease-resistant chemically created crops

Question 34

Indira Ghandi

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first and only female prime minister of India

Question 35

Sirimavo Bandaranaike

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a Sri Lankan politician who was Prime minister 3 times

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Julius Nyerere

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President of Tanzania, promoted own form of African socialism and Marxism

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Mahatma

Answer 37

“Great Soul”, name Ghandi became known by

Question 38

Shining Path

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the Communist party of Peru, wanted to overthrow gov.

Question 39

Idi Amin

Answer 39

Ugandan military officer who served as a president of Uganda, pro-westernization but became a very poor leader

Question 40

Swar Revolution

Answer 40

Communist takeover of Afghan gov

Question 41

Persian Gulf War

Answer 41

Iraq, under Hussein, invaded oil-rich Kuwait.