Latin America
________ deficits, lack of investment capital and wide gaps between the rich and poor led to economic problems in the years following WWII.
What are trade deficits?
After the attacks of 9/11, the US invaded this Middle Eastern country in response.
What is Afghanistan?
After WWII many African nations sought this.
He was the leader of a rural army of peasants and launched a communist revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Juan Peron controlled which Latin American nation.
What is Argentina?
Augusto Pinochet was the leader of which Latin American nation.
What is Chile?
This group used terrorism in the late 20th century, including the 9/11 attacks.
Who was al- Queda?
*Hamas and Hezbollah as well
The ruling minority instituted a policy of racial discrimination in South Africa. It was known as this.
What is apartheid?
This ______ plan was an attempt to increase industrial productivity, was going to modernize the country and would only take 15 years to complete.
What was the Great Plan?
True or False:
South Korea has more recently seen a growth in democracy.
Providing a way to encourage regional cooperation in Latin America was the main purpose of this organization.
What is the OAS, the Organization of American States?
The development and protection if a Jewish Homeland in Israel was known as this.
What is Zionism?
His imprisonment led to worldwide condemnation of the governments apartheid policies.
What was Nelson Mandela?
These two men, were key leaders in India's independence movement?
Who was Mohandas Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru?
Who was Mohandas Gandhi?
Overcrowded cities, relocation of millions of workers to the cities and a rise in urban unemployment were all an effect of this in Latin America in the postwar years.
What is industrialization?
Conflicting claims to territory created a major obstacle to settling this conflict.
The rise of dictators, widespread civil conflict and campaigns of genocide were all a result of ________ rivalries in African nations.
What are ethnic rivalries?
A power struggle between communist and noncommunist governments led to this South Asian war.
What is Vietnam?
This presents the most serious ongoing challenge to modern India.
What is widespread poverty?
Cuba was controlled for many years by this Latin American dictator.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Conflict between ________ and religion have led to revolution in Iran.
What is secularism?
He led Ghana to independence in 1960 and was a major advocate of Pan-Africanism.
What was Kwame Nkrumah?
Strengthened ties with the United States and rapid economic recovery best describe the changes in this island Asian country since WWII.
What is Japan?
True or False:
The Vietnam war had outcomes of mass killings in Cambodia, a communist dictatorship and reunification of North and South Vietnam.
What is True?