Test 4 Short Answer Flashcards
Cold War (US vs. USSR)
Period of high tension after WWII focused on capitalism vs communism
Stopped communism gaining power in the West
Mid-late 1900’s
US vs. USSR
Yalta Conference
WWII Conference of allied powers
To decide a blueprint for postwar Europe
Mid 1900’s
Yalta/Soviet Union
Marshall Plan
American aid to western Europe after WWII
Helped rebuild Western Europe after the war
America
Mid 1900’s
NATO
Military (US/Canada and Western Europe) alliance against communism
Mostly for defensive purposes-attack on one is an attack on all
Multi-nation
Mid 1900’s
Warsaw Pact
Military alliance of communist countries (USSR and East Germany)
Formed as a counter alliance for NATO
Mid 1900’s
Multi-national
Red scare/Joseph McCarthy
Fear of communism in the U.S.
Push across the country to find spies
Mid 1900’s
America
Berlin Wall
Wall splitting east and west Germany
Built to “protect” the east from west invasion BUT actually it was preventing the East Germans from going to the West
Mid 1900’s
Germany
Sputnik/Space Race
First man-made object ever put into space
Marked the beginning of the space race
Russia
Mid 1900’s
Chinese civil war
Civil war of Communists vs Nationalists
Communists win and form people’s republic of China
China
Mid 1900’s
Apartheid/Nelson Mandela
Extreme legal racial segregation
Mandela fought against apartheid and became president of South Africa. He was the countries first black head of state.
South Africa
Late 1900’s
Ho Chi Minh and Viet Minh
Leader of the communists in north Vietnam and prime minister/president after unification
Vietnam is unified (communist) after the Vietnam war(he led north)
Mid 1900’s
Vietnam
Cuban missile crisis
Political and military stand-off between the US and soviets
Soviet Union secretly placed nuclear weapons on Cuba and this is possibly the closest we have come to nuclear war
Cuba
Mid 1900’s
Betty Frieden’s The Feminine Mystique
Idea of women getting outside of their traditional roles
Helped advance women’s rights movements
Mid 1900’s
America
Neocolonialism
The control of less developed countries through indirect non-political means
Domination by economic and cultural influence
Multi-national
Mid 1900’s
Martin Luther king jr
Prominent American activist and civil rights leader
Helped advance civil rights by nonviolent means
Mid 1900’s
America
Lyndon b Johnson
American President
Passed legislations that helped further the civil rights movement
Mid 1900’s
America
Mikhail Gorbachev
Last leader of the Soviet Union
His policies contributed to the end of the Cold War and the fall of the Soviet Union
Soviet Union
Mid 1900’s
Americanization
The influence American culture has on other countries
America was very influential on a world scale. Spreading things like media, pop culture, and technology
1900’s up until today
America
OPEC/1970’s Oil Embargo
Organization of oil exporting countries that created an embargo against the West
3rd world countries united together against the West spiking oil prices. This showed us we should not ignore them
Middle East against West
1970’s
European Union/euro
Goal to promote economic, political, and social harmony of Western Europe
Euro was meant to unite the members under a single currency
Late 1900’s
Multi-national in Western Europe
Polish solidarity/lech Walesa
First polish independent (non-government run) trade union under the leadership of Lech
Lech becomes the push to end communism in Poland
Late 1900’s
Poland
NAFTA
North American free trade agreement between Mexico Canada and the United States
Created one of the largest free trade zones and increased the economy
Late 1900’s
North America
Internet
Global computer network
Connects people across the world like never before
Late 1900’s
Britain
Persian Gulf War
A war in which Iraq (led by Saddam) invaded Kuwait-main reason being him wanting oil domination
The main reason the US and others got involved was to prevent Saddam controlling too much oil and becoming too powerful
Iraq
Late 1900’s
Chernobyl Disaster
The explosion of a nuclear reactor in Chernobyl
Showed just how devastating nuclear pollution can be
Soviet Union
Late 1900’s
Rwanda Civil War/Hutus and Tutsis
Civil war fought in Rwanda Hutus (poor) and Tutsis due to ethnic differences
Led to a brutal genocide of the Tutsi people
Rwanda
Late 1900’s
South African Truth and Reconciliation Committee / Desmond Tutu
Government led program developed by Mr. Tutu that sought to help deal with what happened during apartheid
It was a way to free the truth and work to move past it
South Africa
Late 1900’s
Tiananmen Square Protest/Martial Law
University students protesting for democracy
The govt declares martial law (direct military control) and sends in troops/tanks and fires on their own people
China
Late 1900’s
Jawaharlal Nehru/Indian National Congress
First prime minister of independent India
Established the Indian National Congress
India
Mid 1900’s
