Often shaped by the need to align with either the United States or the Soviet Union, this term refers particularly to the dismantlement, in the years after World War II, of the Neo-Imperial empires established prior to World War I throughout Africa and Asia.
What is Decolonization?
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The Soviet-dominated counterpart to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
100
Provided $13 billion in economic aid to friendly European countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
The discovery by the United States that the Soviet Union had deployed nuclear missiles in Cuba in 1962 sparked this.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
100
This event was the catalyst for the space race.
What is the Sputnik satellite launch?
200
A military alliance consisting of the United States and western European countries.
What is NATO?
200
These types of nations were usually independent , poor nations which were often developing nations/regions and were allied neither with the United States nor with the former Soviet Union.
What are Third World Nations?
200
By instituting a closed monetary system for itself and allied communist countries in Eastern Europe, this country violated the agreement to participate in the World Bank?
What is the USSR?
200
They were a North Vietnamese-supported communist guerrilla movement that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War (1959–1975).
Who was the Viet Cong?
200
President Lyndon Johnson's reform agenda for American reforms was called this.
What is the Great Society?
300
This was a United States-sponsored attempt to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
300
Increased wages, government sponsored health care, social welfare programs including pensions and grants to the poor, and income redistribution are all factors that . . . .
What is raised the standards of living in post-war Western Europe?
300
South African governments used this as a policy of racial segregation. An Afrikaan's word meaning "the state of being apart."
What is apartheid?
300
Because the United States feared that attacking China might prompt Soviet retaliation, the Korean War was limited to this territory?
What is the Korean Peninsula?
300
This world leader claimed he would "reduce [the opposition] to a smoking, radiating ruin at the end of two hours" in the event of attack.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
This agency is an example of the new awareness of environmental issues in the United States in 1970.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency?
400
The superpowers didn't view the struggle between Israel and the Arab states as a vital concern until this was discovered.
What is the oil wealth of the Middle East?
400
These two countries were admitted to NATO in order to check Soviet expansion in Europe.
What is Turkey and Greece?
400
This leader of the African National Congress organized guerrilla resistance in 1960.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
Latin America's decolonization was significantly different from that of Africa because independence movements had occurred in the 19th century but were not followed by this.
What is industrialization?
500
U.S.S.R. is an acronym for this.
When is the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
500
This international organization's mission is to coordinate the policies of the oil-producing countries and to secure a steady income to the member states by securing a supply of oil to consumers.
What is OPEC? (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
500
Since World War II, the most important political issue in Arab countries has been this.
What is the struggle with Israel?
500
Compared to other areas of Africa, the struggle for independence in the Belgian Congo is described as this.
What is chaotic and violent?
500
The Cold War isolated and excluded Japan from world political issues, thus forcing Japan to rebuild and develop this.