WWII
This alliance consisted of:
Germany, Japan, Italy
Who were the Axis Powers
Following WWII, the US and USSR emerged as superpowers and formed the following alliances:
NATO and the Warsaw pact
The first Black leader of South Africa, who first went to prison for inciting violence.
Nelson Mandela
This leader instituted the Four Modernizations
Mao Zedong in the Cultural Revolution
Ghandi was a nationalist Hindu leader who believed in ____ ________ as a method of achieving Indian Indpendence
Civil Disobedience
This battle forced Germany to engage in a multi-front war
What was D-Day, or Storming the Beach at Normandy
The cold war was fought through indirect conflict, known as ____ wars
Proxy wars
The Rwandan genocide was committed by ______ against the ______
Hutus against the Tutsis
The cultural revolution followed which disastrous economic policy?
The Great Leap Forward
This legal system put into place by the Ayatollah Khomeni after taking over Iran in 1979 bans women from attending school, forces women to cover their hair, and makes Islamic law the law of the land.
What is Sharia law
This strategy of fighting had forced the US into a bitter and bloody conflict in Japan
What was Island Hopping
The US brought European Countries into capitalism and NATO through which policies?
The Marshall Plan, Truman Doctrine, Intl Aid
An issue with the borders drawn in decolonization is that it left behind ________ and _________
Ethnic issues and economic issues
Deng Xiaoping instituted the following economic policy to reverse the damage caused by Mao Zedong to China
Mixed Economy
India and Pakistan are still battling over who controls this region after the British Partition of India
Kashmir
In the Munich conference, the Allies agreed to give land from ______ country in a policy known as "appeasement"
Czechoslovakia (Sudetenland)
This armed force aided the South Korean military against North Korea in the Korean War
UN troops led by the US
Kwame Nkrumah led Ghana's nationalist movement with this philosophy
civil disobedience AKA positive action
The Vietcong used _________ to push the United States out of Vietnam, which led _____ to win the Vietnam war
Guerilla Warfare, North Vietnam/Ho Chi Minh
This 260 Mile journey led to Ghandi's arrest
the Salt March
The Soviet Union and Germany created an alliance to invade this country, which started WWII
What is Poland
After the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam war, the US and Soviets entered into a period called ______
Detente
Despite achieving independence before WWI, South Africa's policy of _______ did not end until _____ because of international pressure.
Apratheid until 1990
The Khmer Rouge Believed in what philosophy for Cambodia
Classless Agrarian Utopia
The Soviet Union's exit from ______ after a failed invasion led to the rise of _______, which returned after the US retreated in 2021.
the Taliban