World War II
This was the mass genocide of Jewis people during World War II.
What is the Holocaust?
What is the arms race?
What is civil disobedience?
South African policy of legal segregation that stripped all non-whites of citizenship and rights.
What is Apartheid?
The spread of nuclear technology.
What is nuclear proliferation?
This is the mass murder of a group of people based on a characteristic.
What is genocide?
This was the ideological competition between the US and USSR following WWII.
What was the Cold War?
This was Mao's program to rapidly increase agricultural and steel output in China; massive failure.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Overthrow of the proWestern government in favor of one controlled by Islam in 1979. Led by the Ayatollah Khomeini.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
Revolt by a Chinese group to get rid of western influence in 1900.
What is the Boxer Rebellion?
This is giving into an aggressor nation to prevent war; used by the British prior to WWII.
What is appeasement?
What is containment?
Protest led by Ghandi against the British monopoly on salt production.
Jewish desire for a homeland in Palestine.
What is Zionism?
Stalin's tactic to attempt to force a decision about the future of Germany by cutting off land and water transportation routes to Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
What is the United Nations?
Political idea that if one nation fell to communism, neighboring nations would do the same.
What is the Domino Theory?
This was Mao's program to make Chinese culture and society revolve around his ideas.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
What is Islamic Fundamentalism?
When the potato crop rotted and millions starved; led to massive immigration from Ireland.
What is the Irish Potato Famine?
This was a meeting held in 1938 where Britain and France gave into Hitler's demands for more territory.
What is the Munich Conference?
Period of thawing in the Cold War where tensions eased and treaties limiting weapons were negotiated.
What is Detente?
This was the movement of the Chinese Communist Army from southern to northern China during the Civil War; gained peasant support.
What is the Long March?
Agreement between Isreal and Egypt which gave land back to Egypt in return for opening political relations with Israel.
What are the Camp David Accords?
Gorbachev's policies of opening Soviet society to western ideas and business.
What are glasnost and perestroika?