Unit 8 Flashcards
Cold War 8.1
Def: a conflict that does not involve direct military confrontation between two or more rival states
LO1: Slow post war recovery allowed colonies to push for independence at a time when the nations did not have the money to go to war.
Non-Aligned Movement 8.2
Def: countries that wanted to stay out of the U.S.-Soviet Cold War. They wanted an alternative way for economic, political, and social order.
LO2: The fear of communism and competition to be the #1 influential power in the world caused the Cold war. Effects were decolonization and nations gaining independence.
Kwame Nkrumah 8.2, 8.5
Def: Led Ghana to independence from Great Britain in 1957 and liberates Ghana from British control, negotiates for independence and promotes the idea of african unity
LO2,6: Kwame Nkrumah pushed for independence by negotiating with Britain
Proxy Wars (Korean War and Angolan Civil War) 8.3
Def: Wars with specific local issues where the Soviet Union and US backed different sides to get at each other and prove they are the best
LO3: The Soviets occupied the north while the United States and its allies occupied the south. The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea in an attempt to reunite the country under its leadership.
Angolian borders were set by European colonial powers and they put Rival ethnic groups together under one government, but each wanted to control the country’s lucrative diamond mines.
Communist Revolution in China 8.4
Def: Communists won China after their imperial system had collapsed. The Chinese communist party founded and grew under Mao Zedong’s leadership. he promoted gender rights saying they were going to outlaw arranged marriages and be allowed to own property. Seen as progressive in terms of women’s rights, wanted to redistribute land from wealthy landowners to peasant farmers
LO4: Mao divided land that the Communists won among local farmers in order to gain support of peasants
Great Leap Forward 8.4
Def: A policy in China that went through land reform where peasant lands were organized into agricultural communities where the state held the land
LO4: Mao launched the Great Leap Forward that aimed to rapidly transform China’s economy from agrarian to industrial, which led to the deadliest famine in history
Communist Revolution for Vietnamese Independence 8.4
Def: War broke out between the communist North and the South. Ho Chi Minh, the communist leader of North Vietnam, appealed to nationalist feelings to unite the country under a single communist government but the French living in South Vietnam did not agree causing a war of independence
Decolonization 8.5
Def: changing from colonial to independent nation
LO6: People wanted to be independent from leaders that did not have the same values or beliefs than them
Indian National Congress 8.5
Def: A movement and political party who demand greater Indian participation in the government.
LO6: Leaders that did not have the same values or beliefs than them made the poeple want to be a more prominant part of the government to support their ideas
Muslim League 8.5
Def: this group advocated a separate nation for Indian Muslims
LO6: Leaders that did not have the same values or beliefs than them made the poeple want to be a more prominant part of the government to support their ideas
Partition of India 8.6
Def: a mostly Hindu India and a mostly Muslim Pakistan were made when British divided colonial India into 2 independent countries.
LO7: British dividing colonial india made demographic changes to present day India and Pakistan
Creation of Israel 8.6
Def: United Nations proposed that the Palestine Mandate should divided it into a Jewish state and an Arab state
LO7: The United Nations trying to divide Insrael helped develop the demographic footprint of Israel
Metropole 8.6
Def: a large city of a former colonial ruler formed after World War I to promote cooperation and peace; many migrated to find jobs
LO8: Decolonization made this metropole which when people migrated, they found new jobs helping the economy
Mohandas Gandhi 8.7
Def: A spiritual and moral leader who pushed for India’s independence from Great Britain. He led passive resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts to generate social and political change.
LO9: Great Britains power caused resistance, civil disobedience and boycotts as a reaction because places wanted political change.
Martin Luther King, Jr. 8.7
Def: A baptist minister and United States charismatic civil rights leader who campaigned against the segregation of African Americans in the civil rights movement
LO9: The power structure of white men being superior over African Americans led to the civil rights movements and resistance towards segregation
