WWI & WWII
World War I began in this year.
1914
The two conflicting economic/political ideologies of the U.S. and the Soviet Union (respectively) that characterized the Cold War conflict.
Capitalism, Communism
Prominent Indian leader who believed in nonviolent resistance and initiated movements like the "Quit India" movement for Indian independence from Great Britain.
Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Gahdhi)
International organization founded in 1945, after the end of World War II, with the goal of promoting peace, cooperation, and security among nations worldwide.
The United Nations (UN)
The word for an epidemic disease that spreads across international borders.
Pandemic
The leader of the Soviet Union during World War II.
Joseph Stalin
Name one proxy war that occurred during the Cold War.
Answers vary: may include Vietnam, Korea, Soviet-Afghan conflict
The name of the movement of newly independent nations who opted to remain out of the Cold War conflict by not supporting either the U.S. or the Soviet Union.
The non-aligned movement
Name three of the 12 founding members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949.
Possible Answers:
U.S., U.K., Canada, Belgium, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Norway, Portugal
The loosening of trade restrictions after World War II helped to create a ________ culture, one in which people focused more on what they could buy and own.
Consumer/Consumerism
The name of the U.S. program, initiated by president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, that aimed to help the U.S. economy recover from the Great Depression between World War I and World War II.
The New Deal
This U.S. program provided economic assistance to Europe and aimed to stop the spread of communism after World War II.
The Marshall Plan
India gained independence from this nation in 1947.
Great Britain
The name of the military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries as a counter to NATO and Western influence during the Cold War.
The Warsaw Pact
This leader was imprisoned in South Africa in 1964 during the apartheid era for resisting discriminatory government practices, and gained international support before his release from prison and his election to president of South Africa.
Nelson Mandela
On September 1st 1939 Germany invaded this country, marking the beginning of World War II.
Poland
At the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union agreed to remove its missiles from Cuba and the U.S. secretly agreed to remove its missiles from this country.
Turkey
During the Indochina Wars, Vietnam was attempting to gain independence from this nation.
France
NAFTA stands for _____________________ (expand the acronym) and promoted free trade across North America.
North American Free Trade Agreement
The _________ Revolution spread chemically and genetically modified forms of agriculture that helped to better sustain larger human populations.
Green
The member of the "Black Hand", a Serbian nationalist organization, who was responsible for the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand that sparked World War I.
Gavrilo Princip
This U.S. president famously declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" in a speech at the Berlin Wall in 1987.
Ronald Reagan
The name of the nation created as a result of the partition of India. This nation consisted of two separated pieces of land until one broke off to become Bangladesh.
Pakistan
Name one organization that was founded in the period after World War II that was created to promote and regulate free trade.
Answers vary: may include International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization
Nissan, Nestle, Coca-Cola, Nike, Amazon, McDonald's, and Shell are all examples of these types of organizations that are characteristic of the globalized economy.
Transnational Corporations