Unit 6 Cold War
Who was the capitalist superpower and who was the communist superpower during the Cold War?
Capitalist US; Communist USSR
System of racial segregation and white supremacy in South Africa
Apartheid
Who became the first Black president of South Africa after fighting apartheid?
Nelson Mandela
What was the division of British India into two independent nations, India and Pakistan, in 1947 called?
Partition
What organization was created after World War II to promote peace and uphold international law?
United Nations
Countries maintaining a neutral stance during the Cold War
Non-aligned
This ideology helped unify African countries after colonialism in order to help them overthrow imperial powers
African Nationalism
Ho Chi Minh was the communist and nationalist leader of which country during a Cold War proxy war?
Vietnam
What was built in 1961 to divide a European city into communist and democratic sections?
Berlin Wall
Jawaharlal Nehru, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and Mohandas Gandhi were all members of this organization that supported Indian independence:
The Indian National Congress
What policy, laid out in the Truman Doctrine, did the United States use to stop the spread of communism?
Containment
What strategy did imperial powers, like the British Raj, use to encourage conflict between different ethnic or religious groups and better maintain control?
Divide and Rule
Which Soviet leader was responsible for the Five Year Plans that led to economic strife and the Holodomor famine in Ukraine?
Joseph Stalin
What was the name of the Chinese economic campaign inspired by Stalin’s Five Year Plans that also led to widespread famine?
Mao's Great Leap Forward
What military alliance was formed by the United States and its allies in 1949?
NATO
What policy provided U.S. economic aid to rebuild Western Europe and prevent the spread of communism?
The Marshall Plan
Ideology describing the desire for a Jewish homeland; Motivated the creation of the State of Israel
Zionism
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union who called for reforms like glasnost and perestroika?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Kwame Nkrumah was the African Nationalist leader of this country that peacefully decolonized from Britain
Ghana
What military alliance was formed by the Soviet Union in response to NATO?
The Warsaw Pact
Nuclear weapons were never used by superpowers during the Cold War because...
Mutually Assured Destruction / Retaliation
What ideology promoted unity amongst countries in the Middle East and North Africa?
Arab Nationalism
Which Indian leader supported the creation of a separate country for Muslims?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
This 1960 event in South Africa involved police killing 69 peaceful protesters against pass laws:
The Sharpeville Massacre
What group of Kenyan people led a rebellion against British colonial rule in the 1950s?
The Mau Mau