Final unit Flashcards
What was the Berlin Wall?
A wall built in German that separated East and West Germany
What did the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolize?
The unification of Germany as a whole country
North American Free Trade Agreement
eliminated tariffs among the US, Canada, and Mexico
World Trade Organization
founded to bring order to international trade
NATO
alliance to keep each other safe
NGO
non-governmental organization
Contras
against Sandinistas, financed by Ronald Reagan
Holocaust
influential in creating Israel, Hitler, killing Jews, genocide, ended in 1962, Nuremberg Laws
“Asia Tigers”
South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Khomeini
US - “Great Satan”, religious ruler in Iran
Dent Xiaoping
Reversed Mao Zedong economy, socialist, freeing industries
Cold War didn’t
Force world into two blocks
OPEC
Global recession during 70s, fuel prices
Response to Tiananmen protests
Forcibly repressed calls for democracy & freedom
US involvement in Vietnam, USSR involvement in Afghanistan
Support that would remain strong allies
Marxist beliefs (basis of communes)
Gov’t should control Econ in public interest
Commune
Eliminated family life
Gandhi winning independence for India from Britain
Non-violent protest & civil disobedience
Goal of Green Revolution
Help farmers in developing worlds, modern technology, more productive
Cuban gov’t overthrow by Castro
Low econ growth & corruption of Batista regime
Diminishing power of Europe after WWI
Reliance on funding, loss of oversea markets, colonies beliefs that Europe was divided & unstable
Indian National Congress
Jawaharlal Nehru
Suffered most within Ottoman Empire
Armenians
South Africa
Nelson Mandela, Afrikaner National Party, Apartheid Movement
Mustard gas
WWI, deadly, blindness
Cause of WWI
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Central powers WWI
Germany, Austria-Hungary, Ottomans
Triple Entente
Britain, France, Russia
Schlieffen Plan
Quick attack against France through Belgium, Belgium resisted, failed
Battle of Gallipoli
Turkey, capture Constantinople, failed
Armenian genocide
Turkey, over 1 million murdered/starved
Sykes-Picot agreement
Divided Arab lands between Britain & France, secret
Balfour Declaration
Land in Palestine as a home for Jews for help in WWI
Vladimir Lenin
Russian Revolution, Bolsheviks, head of USSR
Zimmerman Telegram
Sent to Mexico to convince Mexico to attack US
Paris Peace Conference
Decided terms of WWI & Treaty Of Versailles
Good Neighbor Policy (Franklin Roosevelt)
Revamped US approach to Latin American relations
Manchurian invasions
Japanese blew up Japanese railroads & blamed China, Japan left League of Nations
Pan-Africanism
W. E. B. DuBois & Marcus Garvey, proud of culture
Chinese cultural revolution
Mao Zedong, Great Leap Forward (communes), metals didn’t work, Deng Xiaoping fixed everything
Pearl Harbor
Japan bomber America, America blew two Japanese cities
Truman Doctrine
Battle lines of Cold War, free & enslaved
Detente
Reduction in hostility, cool the arms race, the start of the end
Wilson
Created League of Nations
Churchill
Hitler is bad, WWII
Shah
Hated, disagreed, overthrown by Khomeini
Iranian Revolution
1978, new gov’t, two sects of Islam, Shia saw themselves as oppressed
Results of Iranian revolution
Parliment, minority’s were protected, constitution, Shia, limited royal power
