End of European colonialism
An Indian soldier who was forced to fight in the Britsh East India company but eventually revolted leading to the independence movement in Inda.
What is Sepoy?
The US joined this organization in a policy of mutual defense.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Civil Rights leader who advicate dpeaceful nonviolent protest and civi disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.
A form of fighting which uses the land to ones advantage.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
The US fought in the Persian Gulf War and other Middle Eastern Wars to protect their suply to this valuble resource.
What is oil?
This group and Hindus had conflict in India after it gained its independence causing the country to split.
What are Muslims?
The boundary between western democratic nations and Eastern soviet dominated European countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
College Students resist segregation at public lunch counters.
What are the Greensboro Sit Ins?
Policy that the U.S. took on during Vietnam war meaning to prevent or limit the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?
A movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is Zionism?
Marked the official end of British colonial rule in India (hint: its a piece of legislation)
What is the Indian Independence Act?
Created by the US to provide financial aid to Western European nations after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Event that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the Selma March?
True/False: The US lack of success in combat led to the creation of a large anti-war movement.
True
Written by British foreign secretary which stated British suport for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
A movement by Chinese reformers who hoped to use western traditions to strengthen China and end foreign domination.
What is the May 4th Movement?
A relationship between the government and the arms industry.
What is the military industrial complex?
Court Case that allowed The Little Rock Nine to attend all white central High School and reversed Plessy V Fergueson.
What is Brown V Board?
Allowed the US president to take any measure necessary to repel attacks against US forces and allies in South East Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.) during the Vietnam war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A return to traditional Islam customs that rose during the Iranian Revolution.
What is Islamic Fundamentalism?
Chinese Communist leader who hoped to build a new China during the Cultural Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
US senator who became popular after WWII when the US feared a threat of communism inside the country.
* What is this period called?
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
During the Montgommery Bus Boycott, African Americans used these various means to get them to and from work.
What are carpools and Negro Taxi Cabs?
A process in which Lyndon B Johnson planed to slowly let go of Vietnam by preparing them to fight their own war and slowly removing US troops.
What is Vietnamization?
Religious leader, took control of Iran after the revolution of 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini