Unit 8 vocab and must know people

Question 1

Brinkmanship

Answer 1

the act of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before backing down (Associated with the Cold War)

Question 2

Detente

Answer 2

The easing of hostility or strained relations between countries -

Question 3

Nonaligned nations

Answer 3

The independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet UNion…third world nations

Question 4

Proxy war

Answer 4

Conflict between two nations where neither country directly engages each other..like a Cold War during United States and USSR

Question 5

Glasnot

Answer 5

A Soviet policy permitting open discussion of political and social issues and freer dissemination of news information

Question 6

Perestroika

Answer 6

The program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986

Question 7

Partition

Answer 7

A division of a territory into parts, like the 1947 division of the British colony of India into the two nations of India and Pakistan

Question 8

Proliferation

Answer 8

A growth or spread, especially the spread of nuclear weapons to nations that currently do not have them

Question 9

Francisco Franco

Answer 9

Military dictator of Spain from the end of the Spanish Civil War until his death, where he ruled as a repressive semifascist totalitarian leader

Question 10

Amal Abdel Nasser

Answer 10

Colonel who helped overthrow the Egyptian monarchy and became the second president. Kept Egypt neutral during the Cold War and tried to nationalize the Suez Canal Company which caused relations with the west to grow tense. 1918-1970

Question 11

Fidel Castro

Answer 11

1926-2016 Overthrew the Bautista government in Cuba and set up a communist government Allied Cuba with the USSR which led to the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Question 12

Kwame Nkrumah

Answer 12

Oversaw Ghana’s independence from British colonial rule and was an advocate of Pan-Africanism.

Question 13

Kim II-Sung

Answer 13

1912-1994 Leader of the Communist North Korea during the Korean War and designated in the North Korean constitution as the “Eternal President”

Question 14

Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi)

Answer 14

Chinese nationalist party leader during the civil war with the communist and was forced to flee to Taiwan in 1949

Question 15

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 15

1894-1971 soviet leader responsible for the partial de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union. The progress of the USSR’s early space program, and for several liberal reforms in domestic policy.

Question 16

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Answer 16

Leader of the All-India Muslims League and worked with Gandhi to gain India’s Independence. Following the partition of India, he became the founder of the Muslim state of Pakistan.

Question 17

Golda Meir

Answer 17

1898-1978 Israeli politician who became the country’s first female prime minister and worked towards peace in the Middle East.

Question 18

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 18

Communist revolutionary who led the Viet Minh independence movement against the French in 1950s. Later led the North Vietnamese in Vietnamese War.

Question 19

Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer 19

First Prime Minister of India and major leader of the Indian Independence movement with Mahatma Gandhi through the Indian National Congress.

Question 20

Mao Zedong

Answer 20

Hi mao yeye. Leader of the Chinese communist party and founding father of the people’s republic of china. Implemented the cultural revolution(frick you) and the Great Leap Forward.

Question 21

MIkhail Gorbachev

Answer 21

Introduced policies of glasnost and perestroika to the USSR to reform the COmmunist Party and the state economy.

Question 22

Josip Tito

Answer 22

Yugoslav communist revolutionary and statesman. Considered to be the benevolent dictator of Yugoslavia and was the chief leader of the Non-aligned Movement.

Question 23

Harry Truman

Answer 23

33rd president of the United States. Marshall plan to rebuilt Western Europe, NATO, and Truman Doctrine.

Question 24

John F. Kennedy

Answer 24

Served as 35th president of the United States during the height of the Cold War and the majority of his work as president concerned relations with the Soviet Union and Cuba.

Question 25

Idi Amin

Answer 25

1925-2003 President of Uganda from 1971-1979. Known as the “Butcher of Uganda” and considered one of the cruelest despots in modern global history. His rule of Uganda was characterized by human rights abuses, political repression, ethnic persecution, nepotism, and corruption.

Question 26

Norodom Sihanouk

Answer 26

Became king of Cambodia during French colonial rule. Secured Cambodian independence from frame and governed until other-thrown in a coup. Active in politics until his death in 2012.