Unit 7 Terms

Question 1

Red Guards

Answer 1

radical militias aimed at restoring Maoist revolutionary fervor

Question 2

Geneva accords

Answer 2

an agreement to end French rule in Indochina and divide the former colony into Laos, Cambodia, North Vietnam, and South Vietnam

Question 3

Monroe Doctrine

Answer 3

committed the United States to defend the newly created Latin America states against any European efforts at recolonization

Question 4

gunboat diplomacy

Answer 4

this aggressive behavior, called the gunboat diplomacy, infuriated Latin Americans and helped bring to power military dictators who promised to maintain order and protect the investments of United States citizens and companies

Question 5

good neighbor policy

Answer 5

ushered in a new era of U.S. policy toward Latin America, in which the United States claimed it would respect the laws of its neighbors, refrain from military or political influence in their affairs, and restrict itself to economic investment and diplomatic persuasion

Question 6

NAFTA

Answer 6

U.S. and global investment in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico flourished, enhanced by the establishment of the North American Free Trade Area linking Canada, Mexico, and the United States in 1993

Question 7

machismo

Answer 7

the praise of masculine virility and power, into Amerind societies already dominated by men

Question 8

neocolonialism

Answer 8

the use of economic, political, cultural, or other pressured to control or influence other countries, especially former dependencies

Question 9

zionists

Answer 9

followed journalist Theodor Herzl’s belief that Jews would always be outsiders in Christian Europe; only a state of their own would afford them genuine security

Question 10

Islamic modernism

Answer 10

developed in reaction to the challenges posed by technologically advanced European societies

Question 11

Persian Gulf War

Answer 11

the coalition expelled Iraq from Kuwait