Unit 6 Rev Flashcards
An Indian leader of nonviolent protest of British rule in India. Inspired other activists like MLK Jr. and Nelson Mandela.
Mohandas Gandhi
A conflict between two ideologies in struggle for dominance.
Cold War
Association of Southeast Asian Nations created out of fear of the spreading communism after the Vietnam War.
ASEAN
Established by the UN to punish war crimes.
The International Criminal Court
A disease that reduces bodily function and occurs in aging populations.
Alzheimer’s disease
A mother country to a colony. These include France, Britain, and the Netherlands.
Metropoles (include examples)
Student led protests against political institutions and policies all around the world. Started at a soccer tournament in Mexico where students clashed with police.
Global Uprisings of 1968
An attempt by China to collectivise all business and industrialize the economy. It failed because of overestimation of crop output.
Great Leap Forward
An organization created to stimulate free trade and bolster the global economy.
NAFTA (North Atlantic Free Trade Organization)
A coalition of research, military, and private defense in the US instituted by Dwight Eisenhower meant to fight Communism.
Military industrial complex (give example)
A US law that overcame barriars blacks had encountered in voting.
US Civil Rights Act of 1965
A international policy that reflected equality and freedom among the human race.
UN Declaration of Human Rights
The division of India into Pakistan that caused immense violence between Muslim and Hindu communities.
Partition of India
An African literary movement under the French language.
Negritude Movement
Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata sought to overthrow the dictator Porfirio Diaz.
Mexican Revolution
Economic collapse of North American and European states due to the effects of WW1. The triangle of debt (US, France, Germany) was cut at the United States in a stock market crash.
Great Depression
The ideology that all african nations should be united.
Pan-Africanism
Elite institution within India of educated indians who seek to gain greater inclusion in the British government as well as to further Indian interests.
Indian National Congress
Ethnic and political cleansing of populations around the world.
Genocide (include Holocaust, Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan)
Chinese method of de privatization and leading China towards communis.
Five Year Plans
A proxy war to prevent the spread of communism in Asia that was a complete failure.
Vietnam War
A South African who fought apartheid.
Nelson Mandela
The abolishment of the untouchable class in India. It attempted to reintegrate the untouchables into society.
Caste and Reservation in the Indian Constitution of 1950
A modern cultural/sporting event where national teams compete against each other every 4 years.
World Cup Soccer
Leader of the local Vietnamese communist movement. He was about to ally with the US, but was inspired by Soviet communism.
Ho Chi Minh
Diseases that affect people living in poor living conditions and in close quarters.
Diseases of poverty (include malaria, tuberculosis, and cholera)
The movement to unite arab countries across cultures and nationalities in the middle east.
Pan-Arabism
An influential proponent of african american rights in the US.
Martin Luther King JR.
Roosevelt’s responce to the Great Depresion in the US.
The New Deal
The flu that spread as a result of soldiers returning home after WWI
1918 Influenza Pandemic
Alliances between capitalist countries and communist countries to achieve greater influence.
NATO and Warsaw Pact
Major developments in medicine that lead to penicillin saving millions of lives.
Vaccines and antibiotics (include examples and cause/effect)
An Indian cinema corporation created before the Partition of India. Became immensely popular after the split.
Bollywood
An international organization meant to further capitalism.
The World Bank
Terror group in Kenya who fought and protested the British which gained support causing a civil war leading to independence in Kenya.
Mau Mau Rebellion
The first leader of independent Ghana. First proposed the African Union.
Kwame Nkrumah
Independence of the French colony of Algeria led by National Liberation Front through Guerrilla Warfare. Independence was granted through a referendum by Charles De Gaulle by passing the French National Assembly.
Algeria’s War for Independence
A body representing 149 nations in charge of negotiating global commerce and promoting free trade.
The World Trade Organization
Leader of China who instilled more capitalist reforms after Mao’s death.
Deng Xiaoping
What two sides fought for to stay ahead of each other in the cold war.
Nuclear power
A democratic movement/protest that was brutally crushed in China.
Tiananmen Square Protest
A militant terrorist organization in Ireland who used guerrilla tactics against the British to become an independent nation.
IRA
Established as a successor to the League of Nations in order to solve international conflicts.
The United Nations
A revolution in farming techniques that included new crop variations. The purpose was to feed possible communist countries to bring them to the allied side.
Green Revolution
A response to the Great Depression to regulate the global economy.
International Monetary Fund
The mobilization of an entire country for military conflict.
Total War
Countries following Japan’s lead in capitolism leading to millions of people comming out of poverty.
Asian Tigers
Egyption socialist who nationalized certain industries and the Suez Canal.
Gamal Abdel Nasser
A league of muslim nations that sought muslim unity in the middle east.
Muslim League
A proxy war where a communist regime was established in the middle east.
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
