Unit 6 - Global Change Flashcards
This is the belief that all nations should have their own states and those states should represent their interests
self-determination
An alliance organized by the United States to develop and protect its allies.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
The belief that each nation should determine its own destiny.
Self-determination
Genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire from 1915 to 1923.
Armenian genocide
Pretty much defines itself. Wars in trenches.
Trench warfare
Leader of Nazi Germany
Adolf Hitler
The historical belief that a Jewish state should be established in the area of what is now Israel.
Zionism
Leader of fascist Italy
Benito Mussolini
Form of government marked by military and police coercion.
Fascism
Form of government marked by government involvement and surveillance of most aspects of life.
Totalitarianism
The revolution that deposed the last tsar of Russia.
Russian Revolution
The first leader of the Soviet Union.
Vladimir Lenin
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII. Noted for implementing totalitarianism and causing famine.
Josef Stalin
Organization of the countryside into communes.
Collectivization
The appropriation of private property in a nation-state.
Nationalization
First leader of Communist China. Noted for the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong
A failed attempt at collectivizing and industrializing the Chinese countryside
Great Leap Forward
A rebellion against not-communist-enough intellectuals and members of the Communist Party, instigated by Mao.
Cultural Revolution
A period of economic losses across the Americas and Europe.
Great Depression
Plans for the centrally administered economies of China and the Soviet Union.
Five Year Plan
Name given to the strategy of extremely rapid tank and mechanized infantry movements in Germany’s invasion of France in WWII.
Blitzkrieg
Name given to the Nazi campaign of genocide.
Holocaust
Organization founded after WWII to facilitate international cooperation.
United Nations
Former territory of the Ottoman Empire.
Palestine
State founded in 1948 following a civil war in Palestine.
Israel
Series of proxy wars and military build-up between the US and USSR.
Cold War
A strategy taken by the USA to prevent the Soviet Union from acquiring allies. Aimed at preventing states from leaning socialist through military, economic, and cultural means.
Containment
A wall built by the socialist government of East Germany to stop their citizens from defecting to West Germany.
Berlin Wall
The leader of socialist Cuba.
Fidel Castro
An international incident following the United States’ discovery of a Soviet attempt to build a missile base in Cuba. Ended with the Soviet Union removing the missiles in exchange for concessions.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A Catholic ideology promoting the independence of oppressed peoples.
Liberation theology
An organization aimed at promoting pan-Islamic unity and creating Islamic states.
Muslim Brotherhood
A technological revolution that vastly increased world food production with genetically modified crops and chemical fertilizers.
Green Revolution
A war fought between China and North Korea on one side and a UN peacekeeping force and South Korea on the other.
Korean War
The leader of China from 1977 to 1997. Known for improving relations with the United States and Europe as well as implementing limited capitalist reforms.
Deng Xiaoping
The last leader of the Soviet Union. Known for relaxing censorship and police powers.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev’s policy of “openness,” in which censorship was reduced and many government documents were made public.
Glasnost
Gorbachev’s policy of “restructuring” or implementing free market reforms
Perestroika
Genocide committed by the Hutu ethnic group against the Tutsi ethnic group in Rwanda.
Rwandan genocide
War between the United States, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia on one side and Iraq on the other.
Gulf War
