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Winston Churchill
British prime minister during WWII and beginning of Cold War
Tehran Conference
meeting of Allied powers during WWII when Stalin encouraged invasion on France
Yalta Conference
Allied powers during WWII meet and divide Germany into four (US GB FRANCE AND SOVIET)
Potsdam Conference
Allied powers meeting during WWII, US and GB protested communist governments in Eastern Europe
Truman Doctrine
President Truman said the US had the job to support free people resisting control from others powers
Marshall Plan
US aid package for Western Europe which was devastated during WWII
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization alliance of democratic and capitalist countries to stop the spread of communism
Warsaw Pact
alliance of Eastern Europe and USSR to counter NATO
United Nations
peace keeping organization set up after WWII to prevent future conflicts
Korean War
fought when north communists invaded the south to unify the country, UN assisted the south
Ho Chi Minh
Marxist leader who led a rebellion against the French in Vietnam
Vietnam War
northern communist forces invaded the south, US troops sent to the south but north eventually did overtake the south and unified the country and made it communist
Nikita Khrushchev
soviet leader who tried to place nuclear weapons in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
when the US and USSR came close to nuclear war when the USSR placed bombs in Cuba but avoided through negotiation
Sputnik
first Soviet satellite into space
Containment
NATO policy of stopping the spread of communism
Mao Zedong
Communist leader won the civil war in China and implemented “Great Leap Forward”
Chiang Kai-shek
China nationalist leader who lost the civil war to the communists
“Two Chinas”
policy that allowed recognition of Taiwan as the Republic of China and the separate People’s Republic of China
Great Leap Forward
Mao Zedong plan of rapid industrialization and modernization of China
Cultural Revolution
Mao Zedong’s plan of political social and economical changes for China
Deng Xiaoping
successor of Mao Zedong and strongly encouraged Chinese modernization for agriculture, industry, science, and military
Samuel Huntington
scientist who discovered “three waves” of democratization after decolonization
Gandhi
Indian independence leader known for using civil disobedience for political change
civil disobedience
peacefully breaking unjust laws
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
Leader of the Muslim league in India who lead for the movement of Pakistan
Jawaharlal Nehru
led Indian National congress after Gandhi supported creation of industrial India
WEB DuBois
American scholar had meetings with Africans to promote African independence
Kwame Nkrumah
independence leader of Ghana
Jomo Kenyatta
independence leader of Kenya
ANC
African Nation Congress formed in South Africa to protest colonization and apartheid
apartheid
legal and systematic segregation in South Africa
Nelson Mandela
leader of ANC, using civil disobedience to end apartheid, voted first black president of South Africa
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
Turkish leader unified and modernized Turkey as a secular nation state
Shah Reza Pahlavi
Muslim army general captured Iranian government during a coup and declared himself Shah
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
Islamic Iranian revolutionary leader overthrew the shah and placed an Islamic theocracy
Islamic fundamentalism
doctrine based on Islamic texts, social conservatism and political traditionalism based on the Quran
League of Arab States
organization developed to strengthen and unite Arab countries
Gamel Abdel Nasser
Egyptian nationalist leader who took control and challenged the old colonial order by taking the Suez Canal from the British
Zionist Movement
Jewish movement aimed at gaining a permanent home of Israel for Jews at expense of Palestinian land
PLO
Palestinian Liberalization Organization represented stateless people who were mainly Muslim who lost their land due to Israels formation
Anwar el Sadat
Egyptian leader after Nasser, negotiated peace with Israel through mediation with US president
Hosni Mubarak
gained control of Egypt after Sadat’s assassination, oppressive, harsh regime, forced to resign
“the Bully of the North”
nickname of the US because of its aggressive involvement in Latin America
import substitution industrialization
policy of Latin American countries to industrialize and produce imported goods
PIR
Party of the Institutionalized Revolution in Mexico aimed to stabilize the Mexican government and economy
corporatism
authoritarian government allowance of input from major groups outside the government like big businesses led to instability in Brazil
Juan Peron
came to power in Argentina during a military coup
Fidel Castro
Cuban lawyer, carried out a coup & later became a communist dictator
Bay of Pigs Invasion
US sponsored, unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by trying to overthrow Castro
Che Guevara
former doctor turned revolutionary helped Castro take over Cuba and sponsored other Latin American uprisings
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