End of European colonialism
An Indian soldier who was forced to fight in the Britsh East India company but eventually revolted leading to the independence movement in Inda.
What is Sepoy?
The US joined this organization in a policy of mutual defense.
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Civil Rights leader who advocated nonviolent protest and civil disobedience.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A form of fighting which uses the land to ones advantage.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
The US fought in the Persian Gulf War and other Middle Eastern Wars to protect their suply to this valuble resource.
What is oil?
The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Communist and the Nationalists. Name the leaders of these two groups.
Who is Jiang Jieshi and Mao Zedong?
The boundary between western democratic nations and Eastern soviet dominated European countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
College Students resist segregation at public lunch counters.
What are the Greensboro Sit Ins?
Policy that the U.S. took on during Vietnam war meaning to prevent or limit the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?
A movement for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is Zionism?
Marked the official end of British colonial rule in India (hint: its a piece of legislation)
What is the Indian Independence Act?
Created by the US to provide financial aid to Western European nations after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Event that led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is the Selma March?
True/False: The US lack of success in combat led to the creation of a large anti-war movement.
True
Written by British foreign secretary which stated British suport for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
A movement by Chinese reformers who hoped to use western traditions to strengthen China and end foreign domination.
What is the May 4th Movement?
The name of the first satellite launched into space by the USSR.
What is Sputnik?
Court Case that allowed The Little Rock Nine to attend all white central High School and reversed Plessy V Fergueson.
What is Brown V Board?
Allowed the US president to take any measure necessary to repel attacks against US forces and allies in South East Asia (Vietnam, Cambodia, etc.) during the Vietnam war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
A return to traditional Islam customs that rose during the Iranian Revolution.
What is Islamic Fundamentalism?
Conflict between these two groups in India led to the creation of Pakistan.
What are Hindus and Muslims?
Name of one the soviet satellites after WWII.
What is Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary?
During the Montgommery Bus Boycott, African Americans used these various means to get them to and from work.
What are carpools and Negro Taxi Cabs?
A process in which Lyndon B Johnson planed to slowly let go of Vietnam by preparing them to fight their own war and slowly removing US troops.
What is Vietnamization?
Program created by John F Kennedy to help improve economic conditions of developing countries and to make the US a international peacekeeper.
What is the Peace Corps?