Decolonization in India
After WWII, India gained independence from Great Britain largely due to the efforts of this man.
Mohandas Gandhi
The Civil War in China from 1945-1949 was between which two groups? And who led them?
Communists led by Mao Zedong and Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek
After World War 2, the Soviet Union took over small nations of Eastern Europe and turned them into ...
communist satellites
In South Africa, the system of racial segregation that was used from 1948 until 1990.
apartheid
After World War II, part of the Holy Land that includes Jerusalem was used to create the Jewish nation of ...
Israel
In order to prevent conflict between these two groups, the region was controlled by Great Britain.
By 1949, the Nationalists had to flee to this island.
Taiwan
This term was used by Winston Churchill to describe the imaginary line dividing democratic countries of Western Europe from teh communist countries of Eastern Europe.
Iron Curtain
Black South African nationalist leader who fought against apartheid and was jailed for 27 years. He became the first black president after apartheid officially came to an end in 1990.
Nelson Mandela
They were Arab Muslims who lived in the Holy Land who claimed that they should have control over the region since they have lived there for hundreds of years.
Palestinians
The nation for Muslims was this.
India. Pakistan.
Land.
The policy used by the United States to stop the spread of communism.
Containment
During the 1990s, there was serious conflict between two groups in Rwanda. What are the two groups?
Hutus and the Tutsis
This area was claimed to be under the control by both India and Pakistan.
Kashmir
Mao's attempt to modernize the industrial and agricultural production of China was called ...
The Great Leap Forward
Which two regions became Communist or democratic in Germany?
East Germany - Communist
West Germany - Democratic
India followed a policy of .... during the Cold War, which means that it did not take sides. It remained neutral.
Nonalignment
The period in China from 1966-1976 started by Mao to renew the spirit of Communism and reassert his authority over the Chinese government.
The Cultural Revolution
The military alliance between the U.S., Canada, and the democratic nations of Western Europe.
NATO
This group of revolutionary young people were made to eliminate the "Four Olds" - old ideas, old culture, old customs, and old habits.
Red Guards
The military alliance between the Soviet Union and the other Communist nations of Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
Becoming a sort of bible for the Chinese Communists, a collection of Mao's thoughts were put into a book called ...
The Little Red Book.
This event was the closest the world has ever come to nuclear war.
Cuban Missile Crisis