Vocab - Changing Global Landscape (Communism) Flashcards
European economic community
Alliance formed by 6 European states in 1957 calling for balanced economic growth
Marshall plan
American initiative to aid Europe, where United States gave economic support to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II in order to prevent the spread of Communism
Great Leap Forward
five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party where the goal was to modernize the country’s agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies
Cultural revolution
Mao Zedong stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society
Cuban missile crisis
A period in 1962 in which the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba to scare the United States
Decolonization
process by which colonies become independent of the colonizing country
Indian National congress
A movement and political party that demanded greater Indian participation in government
Mohandas Gandhi
Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India
Muslim league
political group that led the movement calling for a separate Muslim nation to be created
Mao Zedong
a Chinese communist, politician, military strategist, poet, and revolutionary who was the founder of the People’s Republic of China
Deng Xiaoping
Chinese communist leader who was a powerful figure in China from the late 1970s until 1997
Mikhail Gorbachev
Soviet and Russian politician who served as the last leader of the Soviet Union
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
In 1948, Israel declared independence, thus beginning the Israeli-Arab War, with five Arab states fighting against the creation of the state.
Iranian revolution
uprising in Iran in 1978–79 that resulted in the toppling of the monarchy in 1979, and led to the establishment of an Islamic republic
