Our International System
Early Cold War
Cold War Races
Changes in Asia
Changes in Africa
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This is the name of the international organization formed after WWII. The winners of WWII gave themselves a lot of power in it. (Name + Acronym)
United Nations (UN)
100
The Cold War began at the end of this major war in the 1900s.
WWII
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A superpower arms race began after 1945 to build more and more of this kind of weapon.
Nuclear
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This East Asian country became communist after a civil war ended in the early 1950s.
China
100
This was one of the European colonizing countries that lost out in Africa during the second half of the 1900s.
Britain, France, Belgium, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Netherlands
200
This is one of the goals, or jobs, of the UN.
Prevent war, end poverty, protect human rights (any one accepted)
200
These countries were the two major superpowers of the Cold War era.
USA/USSR
200
This was the name for the superpower “race” to explore more and more of outer space.
Space Race
200
This was the name of the first chairman of the communist party in China - aka the country’s first communist dictator.
Chairman Mao Zedong
200
This is the name for invisible lines we draw on maps to decide who gets to control land. The lines drawn in Africa by colonizing countries often created conflict after independence.
Borders
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To help protect people’s freedoms, the UN made a document called the Universal Declaration of _____ in 1948. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt was one of the people who helped write it.
Human Rights
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The invisible “Iron Curtain” that divided communist and capitalist Europe during the Cold War ran through the middle of this WWII loser country.
Germany
300
The space race was won when this superpower achieved this milestone.
USA put a "man on the moon"
300
The USA got caught up in a brutal decolonial civil war that split communists from capitalists in this Southeast Asian country. The USA supported the capitalist leaders, and they lost.
Vietnam
300
This was the name for the trend during the Cold War where some smaller countries tried to work together and refused to take sides in the Cold War.
Non-Aligned Movement
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This is the city where the headquarters (HQ) of the UN are located.
NYC
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Early in the Cold War, the superpowers almost got into nuclear war after nuclear missiles were brought to this communist Caribbean country.
Cuba
400
Superpowers competed to control smaller countries after they went through this process where the smaller countries first got rid of their outside colonizers.
Decolonization
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This was one of the big changes that communists brought to China in the mid 1900s.
Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution, land reform, collective farming, government control of industry
400
These are the names of any 5 African countries.
500
This is the name for the part of the UN where powerful countries meet to try to figure out how to stop wars.
Security Council
500
This is the name for one of the two major European alliances that formed early in the Cold War.
NATO/Warsaw Pact
500
This was the name of the first person to go to space.
Yuri Gagarin
500
The first time the USA got involved in a civil war to stop communists from gaining power in this East Asian country close to Japan. The USA only partially succeeded in its goal, and the country split into two (communist and capitalist).
Korea
500
This was the name of the organization created in Africa during the later 1900s that tried to act like a UN for Africa - a place where countries can come together to solve problems rather than fight about them.
African Union
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This is the name for the part of the UN where every country has one vote. It looks and feels like a Congress but does not make world laws, only suggestions.
General Assembly
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The ____ Doctrine was one Cold War superpower's promise to stop the spread of communism around the world.
Truman
600
This is what Laika was, or the soviet “cosmonaut” who helped prove that mammals could survive in Space with the right technology.
Dog
600
This was the name of a popular book of sayings by the “dear leader” in China.
Quotations from Mao Zedong/Little Red Book
600
This was the belief that became popular with many people of African heritage, whether living in Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, or the Americas, that claimed that all people with African heritage were connected in the fight against racism and unfair treatment.
Pan-Africanism