Korea
Gave 12billion to Europe in reparations to be nice
What is America?
Students and protesters gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square demanding political reforms and more rights. The Chinese government responded with a violent military crackdown, killing hundreds or possibly thousands and ending the protests brutally.
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
A boycott strategy used by a country or a group of countries on another in effort to get it to change its policies.
What is Economic Sanctions?
The Four Modernizations were reforms by Deng Xiaoping in the late 1970s to improve China’s agriculture, industry, science & technology, and national defense—aimed at modernizing and growing China’s economy.
What are the four modernizations?
In 1947, British India was divided into two countries—India and Pakistan—based mainly on religious lines, leading to massive migration, violence, and lasting tensions between the two nations.
what is the partition of India?
refers to strong loyalty or allegiance to one’s own tribe or ethnic group, often leading to division or conflict with other groups. It can influence politics, social relations, and identity, sometimes causing tensions or competition between different communities. Example: Jews and Germans.
series of conflicts between Israel and neighboring Arab countries over land and control in the Middle East. Key wars include the 1948 war after Israel’s creation, the 1967 Six-Day War where Israel gained significant territory, and the 1973 Yom Kippur War. These wars caused lasting tensions and are central to the ongoing conflict in the region.
1952-1962, communist China wants to industrialize. It was just a plan to industrialize. It failed.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The Homespun Movement encouraged Indians to make their own cloth to boycott British goods because they were being treated unfairly. The Salt March (1930), led by Gandhi, was a 240-mile protest against British salt taxes, inspiring mass civil disobedience for Indian independence.
what is the Homespun Movement & Salt March
Most of Europe had suffered damage during the Napoleonic wars, including Latin America (South America regions) which allowed the damaged states to start getting some nationalistic ideals. Latin countries started breaking away from Spanish and Portuguese rule, 1808 and 1826
What is the Latin American Revoltuion?
1950-1953, South (capitalist) versus North (communist) Korea. 3 million people died, including civilians. Divided the Korean Peninsula, which still exists today.
What is the Korean war?
North Vietnam, led by Ho Chi Mehn, and supported by the Soviet Union and China.
South Vietnam: backed by the United States.
Vietnam declared independence from France after a war where Vietnam defeated France. A fight again between Communism and freedom.
When: 1954-1975
How it ends: North Vietnam captures Vietnam's capital, thus declaring Vietnam as a communist country.
What is the Vietnam war?
1966-1976 After the failures of the Great Leap Forward, a movement started by Mao Zedong to enforce communist ideology by attacking traditional culture and political enemies. Led by youth called Red Guards, it caused widespread chaos, persecution, and destruction of cultural heritage, deeply disrupting Chinese society.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
North American Free Trade Agreement, signed in 1992, tried to eliminate trade barriers. Created a free trade zone in 1994
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United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement, 2020, A modernized version of NAFTA with new rules for labor, environment, auto manufacturing, and digital trade.
What is NAFTA/USMCA