Globalization/Economics
The doctrine that helped to crystallize the new post World War II era.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The man who attempted to reinvigorate China's commitment to communism. It silenced critics and solidified his hold on power.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The strategy that the Americans thought to be the best defense against the Soviets.
What is containment?
A world war II hero and former supreme commander of NATO who became US president in 1953.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Mosquito nets treated with pesticides often keep people safe from ____, but this disease is still prevalent in impoverished areas such as central Africa.
What is Malaria?
The name of the league that was founded in 1906 and advocated a separate nation for Indian Muslims.
What is Muslim league?
The nationalist, Communist-leaning president of Egypt who seized the British-controlled Suez Canal in 1956.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
A democratically elected government under Jacob Arbenz in the Central American country of Guatemala began efforts at this type of reformation.
What is land reform?
Republican senator who capitalized on Cold War fears of Communism in the early 1950s by accusing hundreds of government employees of being communists and soviet agents.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Technology that contributed to the development of globalized cultures.
What is the internet? (mobile phones included)
Led nonviolent marches, boycotts, and fasts to oppose British colonial rule in India.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
A peace agreement between Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel and President Anwar Sadat of Egypt mediated by Jimmy Carter
What is Camp David Accords?
Led the Cuban revolution overthrowing Cuban President Batista in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Negative groups that came from the technology created by globalization.
What is terrorist groups?
Helped western countries rebuild economies in capitalist principles.
What is Marshall Plan?
Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union as General Secretary of the governing Communist Party and as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
Treaty signed in 1972 by the United States and the Soviet Union to slow the nuclear arms race
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty?
President that took over after FDR died and tried to end the spread of communism.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
The first American to walk the surface of the moon after the creation of Apollo 11.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
An organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum.
What is OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)?
The conference where the amount of reparations Germany should pay.As well as where the USSR wanted more, the USA and Britain wanted less because they thought a stronger Germany could be a buffer (a block) to the spread of communism.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
After the 1900’s there was a drastic increase in this type of economy where prices for goods and services became self-regulated.
What is a free market economy?
37th president of the United states who led many civil rights acts.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space.
What is NASA?