Cold War Conflicts
What was the U.S. policy/doctrine of providing economic and military aid to countries resisting communism?
truman doctrine
What Indian leader promoted civil disobedience to achieve independence?
Mohandas Gandhi
Who led the Communist Party to victory in China in 1949?
Mao Zedong
What war divided a peninsula at the 38th parallel?
Korean War
What major Cold War power dissolved in 1991?
Soviet Union
What was the purpose of the Marshall Plan?
Rebuild war-torn Europe and strengthen capitalist economies
What was the result of India's 1947 partition?
India and Pakistan created; millions displaced, ~1 million died
What failed economic policy in China led to famine and deaths?
The Great Leap Forward
What group used nonviolent resistance to oppose apartheid in South Africa?
African National Congress/Nelson Mandela
What war in the 1980s drained Soviet resources and morale?
Soviet-Afghan War
What did the construction of the Berlin Wall symbolize? BONUS 100 if you can name which ideology matched with the East and West side.
Division of communist East and capitalist West during the Cold War
What was the name of Ghana's independence leader who also helped found the Non-Aligned Movement?
Kwame Nkrumah
What 1966 Maoist campaign targeted intellectuals and promoted Red Guards?
The Cultural Revolution
Who tried to nationalize the Suez Canal in 1956?
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Name one reason for economic stagnation in the USSR in the 1980s.
Overspending on military, lack of innovation, planned economy, etc
Name the two alliances/organizations formed during the Cold War and the sides they represented.
NATO—Western bloc; Warsaw Pact—Eastern bloc
What organization did colonized nations use to voice their desires for independence?
Indian National Congress
What land reform movement occurred in Iran under the Shah?
White Revolution
What was the movement that occurred in response to the 2 new global superpowers post WW2?
Non-aligned movement; a group of nations who didn’t align with either the U.S. or USSR during the Cold War
Name of the revolution in Czechoslovakia that swept communists out of office and restored democracy.
velvet revolution
What 1945 conference between the "Big Three" helped shape the post-WWII world?
Yalta Conference
Due to the rapid decolonization and independence, the year of 1960 became known as what?
The year of Africa
Name two countries outside China that experienced communist revolutions or movements post-1900. (Answer: Vietnam, Ethiopia)
Vietnam, Ethiopia
What was the name of the group that took power in Nicaragua in 1979? (They originally formed in the early 1960s)
the Sandinistas, or Sandinista Front for National Liberation
What 2 Soviet policies of openness and restructuring were introduced under Gorbachev?
Glasnost and Perestroika