Cold War
Stalin cut off trains and power to West Berlin in an attempt to force West Germany to surrender it to him. NATO used planes to resupply the city.
The Berlin Airlift
Movement that argued that all Sub-Saharan Africans or at least Black Africans should identify and work together, especially in resisting colonialism.
Pan-Africanism
This movement sought to end racial segregation and other racial injustices in the United States
The Civil Rights movement
Country created from the British Palestinian Mandate to be a nation for the Jewish people.
Israel
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Idea that the US and its allies needed to stop communism from spreading further into more countries around the world.
Containment Theory
This event divided Eisenhower of the United States and Britain and France over the issue of Imperialism in Africa. Ultimately led to embarrassment of Britain and France who were forced to withdraw troops from Egypt.
The Suez Crisis
South African leader who changed his mind on resisting Apartheid with violence and terrorism to embracing non-violent resistance.
Nelson Mandela
The idea that any war between NATO and the Soviet Union would inevitably lead to both sides destroying each other with nuclear weapons.
MAD: mutually assured destruction
The name of Great Britain's government in India.
The British Raj
This international body was created after World War 2 in order to prevent war and find solutions to international problems.
The United Nations or UN
Mao Zedong led this economic and social campaign within the People's Republic of China from 1958 to 1962, led by the Chinese Communist Party. Led to 30 million people starving to death.
The Great Leap Forward
What is the name of the nonviolent protest style used by both Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr?
Civil Disobedience.
This country was created due to a period of "troubles" between Catholic Separatists and Protestant Loyalists.
Ireland
Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger famously opened up this country to trade with the US and to cooperate against the Soviet Union to some degree.
China
1890s movement to create a separate stable region for those of Jewish descent (gains momentum with each instance of oppression/violence against those of Jewish faith)
Zionism or Zionist Movement
This soviet invention sparked the Space Race.
Sputnik, the first satellite.
Ronald Reagan's dream and political gambit to be able to destroy any Soviet nuclear strike at the US using space lasers.
Strategic Defense Initiative or "Star Wars"
The father of Vietnamese Nationalism
Ho Chi Minh
In 1979 the Western-backed shah of this country was overthrown by conservative Shia Muslims in this revolution.
The Iranian Revolution
What were the two Cold War events that tested the resolve of JFK's presidency?
The Bay of Pigs
The Cuban Missle Crisis
The new governments of both India and Pakistan have been fighting over this territory for decades.
Kashmir
Mao Zedong's attempt to recapture the spirit of the Communist revolution through the empowerment of the youth. Young people all throughout China wore the red armband of the Red Guards as they beat teachers, politicians, and anyone else thought to be a rightist.
The Cultural Revolution
Name at least one effect of the US's policy of Detante (lessening of tensions) with the USSR.
SALT: Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty of 1972.
US begins trade with China
US Begins Trade with USSR
Name the Hindu and Muslim organizations that fought for independence from Great Britain.
The Indian National Congress and The Muslim League.
Give two examples of violent anticolonial movements post-1945.
Irish Republican Army (IRA) and Northern Ireland
Basque Homeland and Freedom (ETA) in Spain
Shining Path in Peru
al-Qaeda (Middle East), Boko Haram (Africa), Islamic State of Iraq/Levant (ISIL), Taliban (Middle East)
Ho Chi Minh vs the French in Vietnam.
These social and economic policies made by Gorbachev brought the USSR to the brink of destruction.
Glasnost (criticize the government) and Perestroika (liberalizing of the economy)
Name four countries that created their own state in the time period 1945 - present.
India
Pakistan
Bangladesh
Egypt
Israel
Serbia
Bosnia
and many more.
A period of American life marked by a deep fear of Communists in America. This led to the creation of the Unamerican Activities Commission helmed by Joseph McCarthy.
The Red Scare
What were the two economic policies that the United States enacted at the beginning of the Cold War? What geographic areas did they impact?
The Truman Doctrine - Greece and Turkey
The Marshall Plan - All of Western Europe.
The first Sub-Saharan African country to become independent after World War 2.
Ghana
The Quiet Revolution, was an attempt at changing social and political policies to separate from British-controlled Canada. This led to the expansion of nationalism and some violent terrorist actions in 1963. Where did this happen?
Quebec
Name at least two effects of the collapse of communism from the period 1989 to its eventual fall in 1991 and beyond.
Berlin Wall Falls.
German Reunification.
Balkanization in Yugoslavia.
Eastern European Countries seek democracies.
US Culture extends leading to the Americanization of the world.
First president of Ghana. Pushed for Pan-Africanism.
Kwame Nkrumah
Name ONE of the big conferences between Russia, America, and Great Britan where the three powers discussed how the Post WWII world would be divided.
Tehran Conference (1943) - Allies agree to an end strategy for WWII - Russia will attack from the east, US and Britain will attack from the West. In return, USSR will get part of Poland at the end of the war.
Yalta Conference (1945) - Allies discuss what to do after WWII in Europe and how to defeat Japan. FDR/US wants free elections and for the USSR to help end the war in the Pacific, Stalin/USSR wants control over Eastern Europe to prevent another Hitler and will help fight Japan if given some islands in the Pacific.
Potsdam Conference (1945) - Allies discuss peace in Europe, and Stalin (who is occupying Eastern Europe) refuses to leave. Germany is split into four sections between Allied powers (Berlin is split as well); tensions between the US and USSR mounts; prelude to Cold War.