Cold War Politics
FINAL JEOPARDY
This 1955 meeting in Indonesia brought together 29 newly independent African and Asian nations to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism.
Bandung Conference
Economic assistance provided to Europe from the US after WWII.
Marshall Plan
13 Day standoff between the US and USSR over soviet missiles in a Caribbean nation.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Event that caused the creation of Hindu-India and Muslim-Pakistan.
Partition of India
Indian lawyer who would become a peaceful activist against British rule of India.
Mohandas Gandhi
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain
Plan to fly supplies into a German city blockaded by Stalin.
Berlin Airlift
Nation created after WWII to create a safe haven for Jews around the world.
Israel
American Civil Rights leader promoting peaceful protests against segregation laws.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Multi-Nation organization established after WWII to prevent wars, settle disputes and assist nations in need.
United Nation (UN)
The Korean War, Vietnam War, and Soviet-Afghan War are all examples of _____________
Proxy Wars
This Sub-Saharan African nation, led by Kwame Nkrumah, is widely considered to be the first African nation to gain independence in the 20th century.
Ghana
First Black president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
These were the two alliances that formed during the Cold War.
NATO & Warsaw Pact
The Shah of Iran's attempt at modernizing and westernizing the nation. Included land-reform, rapid urbanization, among other things.
White Revolution
Egyptian leader that would gain control of the Suez Canal
Gamal Abdul Nasser
South African laws that severely segregated Black and White South Africans.
Apartheid
Economic policy in communist China that sought to quickly industrialize the nation and collectivize agriculture.
Great Leap Forward
U.S. strategy early in the Cold War that sought to stop the spread of communism
Containment
(Truman Doctrine)
After leading the movement for independence from Belgium, he became the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.
Patrice Lumumba
This person was the leader of the North Vietnamese as they resisted French occupation.
Ho Chi Minh