Cold War
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite called what?
What is Sputnik?
The ______ War began when the North invaded the South at the 38th parallel?
What is the Korean War?
The distinguishing term used for nations with supreme global power that emerged after WW2.
What is a superpower?
In 1962 what country did Algeria gain its independence from?
What is France?
Name 3 counties who were in NATO.
Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the US, etc.
This person became the face of Zionism in the 1890s who rallied Jewish people to create a homeland in Palestine.
Theodore Herzl
What is the metaphor that describes the split between Eastern and Western Europe?
What is the Iron Curtain?
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev, who came to power after Stalin, saw an opportunity to gain advantage over the U.S. in what country?
What is Cuba?
an imaginary line separating one political unit, such as a country or state, from another.
*Two words*
What is a political boundary?
Who helped Ghana gain its independence and became the first president of Ghana in 1960?
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This American President experienced many economic problems during his presidency. In addition, he did not like the Soviets abuses of human rights, specifically in the Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979.
Who is Jimmy Carter
This Declaration came about after World War 1 in which the British recognized the rights of the Jewish people to have a homeland in Israel.
The Balfour Declaration
In 1943, leaders of the US, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and China discussed the idea of what and replaced the League of Nations?
*two words*
What is the United Nations?
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The countries surrounding the Soviet Union were known as ___ countries
What is satellite?
In 1920, who led the Indian National Congress in the movement for Indian Independence from Britain?
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
Name 3 counties who were in the Warsaw Pact.
Where is Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union.
Gorbachev's more liberal economic reforms which led to the downfall of the USSR was called ___
Perestroika
After resolving the crises of the 1960s, the relationship between the superpowers improved in the following decade. This period of time was called what?
What is déntente?
President Lyndon Johnson believed in the idea that if one country in the region became communist, other countries would soon follow. What was this theory called?
What is the domino theory?
a five-year economic plan executed by Mao Zedong and the Chinese Communist Party, begun in 1958 and abandoned in 1961. The goal was to modernize the country's agricultural sector using communist economic ideologies.
* “The” + 3 words *
What is The Great Leap Forward
In what year did Ghana gain its independence?
When is 1957?
The First Man in Space was ___
Yuri Garagin
Name two reasons the Cold War ended?
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall, the reunification of Germany and the dissolution of the Soviet Union? You could also mention the reforms of Gorbachev and the determination of Ronald Reagan.
UN military forces supporting the South Koreans came from 16 member countries, but the US provided the largest number. Who was the overall commander?
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
Gorbachev's policies which opened up Soviet Society such as allowing more freedom of the press and religion was called what?
Glasnost
The Khmer Rouge was the communist guerrilla organization that came about in the 1970s in this country.
Where is Cambodia?
What was China's response to the Tiananmen Square protest?
Put down protests with force, jailed dissidents, did not acknowledge what happened afterwards.
What were the 2 economic plans which the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. created to help countries recover after World War 2?
Marshall Plan and the Molotov Plan
Britain was no longer able to deal with the problems between the Jews in Israel and the Palestinians after World War 2, so they handed it over to the ___ to decide how to deal with the problems there.
United Nations
This organization in the United Nations is made up of 15 members who deal with issues regarding safety in the world. What is this organization called and who are the 5 main members?
Security Council
U.S., Russia, England, France, China
When Gandhi led protests against unjust laws and led them peacefully, this was called:
Civil Disobedience
When Mao Zedong came back into power in the 1960s, he wanted to make sure that people were not forgetting the Communist ideals, so he set about to have Red Guards (young Chinese people) to get rid of the 4 olds. What was this movement called?
The Cultural Revolution