End of the Cold War
This Soviet leader introduced reforms called glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The increasing interconnectedness of economies, cultures, and populations.
What is globalization?
This global network revolutionized communication in the late 20th century.
What is the Internet?
Name two characteristics of nations in the "Third World."
What are lack of industrialization and not aligning with one of the superpowers.
(The third alignment was often called the "Third World" but was more accurately described as the non-aligned countries that did not have close military or ideological ties with any of the First or Second World countries.)
This type of organization operates independently from governments and often advocates for social change.
What is a non-governmental organization (NGO)?
This wall’s fall in 1989 symbolized the end of Cold War divisions in Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This economic policy emphasizes free markets, privatization, and reduced government spending.
What is neoliberalism?
This international competition between the U.S. and USSR for technological supremacy included space exploration.
What is the Space Race?
MAD.
What was Mutually Assured Destruction?
This court case banned forced racial segregation of schools in the United States.
What is Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka?
This U.S. president famously challenged the Soviet Union to “tear down this wall.”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This trade agreement linked the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
What is NAFTA?
The scientific field focused on manipulating DNA.
What is genetic engineering?
This South African leader became president after the end of apartheid.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
In 1968, the Soviet Union used the ________ Doctrine, named for then-Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, to justify its actions.
What was the Brezhnev Doctrine?
The dissolution of this nation in 1991 marked the official end of the Cold War.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This global organization replaced GATT and regulates international trade.
What is the World Trade Organization (WTO)?
In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, called
What is Sputnik?
Supported the Mujahideen resistance fighters in Afghanistan.
Who was the USA?
Ohio National Guard killed four unarmed students during an antiwar demonstration at this university.
What is Kent State?
This Eastern European military alliance dissolved alongside the USSR.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The process of a nation taking control of Industry that is run by foreign companies.
What is to Nationalize?
ICBM.
What is an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile?
Non-aligned countries. Name three...
Who were India, Ghana, Egypt, and Indonesia?
This organization was considered freedom fighters for many Irish, but a terrorist organization by the British.
What was the IRA?