8.1 Setting the Stage for the Cold War and Decolonization
What conference at the end of World War II allowed the Soviet Union to begin setting up Satellite States in Eastern Europe?
The Yalta Conference
What was the international organization founded at the end of World War II to try to prevent future conflicts?
The United Nations
How did the United States get around the Berlin Blockade?
The Berlin Airlift
What is the policy of redistributing land from wealthy landowners to poor farmers?
Land Reform
What two countries were formed out of the Partition of British India?
India and Pakistan
What is the ideology that believes that there should be a Jewish state?
Zionism
What is Civil Disobedience?
Nonviolent resistance to power structures often involving breaking the law
What is Detente?
An easing of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union
What was the US plan for economic recovery in Western Europe?
The Marshall Plan
What was the Soviet program for economic recovery?
COMECON
What were the two major military alliances of the Cold War?
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
What were the two programs that Mao implemented in China that killed many people?
The Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
Which North African country fought a long war to gain independence from France?
Algeria
Who was the leader of the Khmer Rouge?
Pol Pot
What year had massive student protests all over the world?
1968
In what country did the Soviet Union get stuck in a war in the 1980s?
Afghanistan
What year did the Soviet Union develop Atomic Bombs?
1949
What was the Truman Doctrine?
A US foreign policy doctrine aimed at containing communism
How did the US and the USSR avoid fighting each other directly?
Proxy Wars
What Middle Eastern country's government was overthrown in a US backed coup?
Iran
What did Egypt nationalize in 1956 that caused an international crisis?
The Suez Canal
What region is disputed between India and Pakistan?
Kashmir
Where did Bloody Sunday take place?
Ireland
Who were the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union during the late 1980s?
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the powerful antibiotic discovered during World War II?
Penicillin
Who was the first human in space and what country were they from?
Yuri Gagarin, The Soviet Union
What were the two major proxy wars where United States soldiers got directly involved?
The Korean War and the Vietnam War
What Central American country was overthrown by the United States after nationalizing property of the United Fruit Company?
Guatemala
Nigeria
Who was the first female Prime Minister in world history and what country was she from?
Sirimavo Bandaranaike from Sri Lanka
What was the agreement that ended the Troubles in Ireland?
The Good Friday Agreement
What were the reform programs that Mikhail Gorbachev implemented in the 1980s?
Perestroika and Glasnost
What type of bomb is more powerful than a basic atomic bomb?
The Hydrogen Bomb
What does M.A.D. stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What was the closest that the US and USSR came to going directly to war?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was the leader of Ethiopia from the end of World War II until 1974?
Haile Selassie
What country was Kwame Nkrumah the first president of?
Ghana
What is a Metropole?
A major city in a colonizing country that many people migrate to from a colonized country
What country was the Shining Path active in?
Peru
What year did the Berlin Wall come down?
1989