Newly independent States
This former colonial power's withdrawal led to the independence of India and Pakistan in 1947.
What is the former British Empire?
Many newly independent nations chose not to align with either superpower and instead formed this movement.
What is the Non-Aligned movement?
This nation was the 1st to successfully achieve independence from British rule through non-violent resistance.
What is India?
This country experienced a communist revolution led by Mao Zedong in 1949.
What is China?
This organization was created to oppose NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The name of the organization founded in 1945 to help protect the sovereignty of newly independent states.
What is the United Nations?
The Korean War was a proxy war with what superpower helping which side.
What is the United States supporting South Korea and the Soviet Union supporting North Korea?
This was an independent movement that sought to overthrow the colonial government in Algeria.
What is the Algerian National Liberation Front?
This nations communist forces, led by Ho Chi Minh, defeated the French.
What is Vietnam?
This event, involving a wall separating East and West Berlin.
What is the Fall of the Berlin Wall.
The most common causes of instability in newly independent states after 1900, often leading to conflict and political upheaval.
What is Nationalism, ethnic tensions, weak institutions, etc.?
The USSR efforts to spread this economic system, influenced by Marxism and Leninism, were key to the Cold War.
What is communism?
The Bloody 8 year old conflict that led to this North African nations independence from France was marked by widespread violence and guerilla warfare.
What is Algeria?
The Bolshevik Revolution in this country in 1917 established the 1st communist state.
What is Russia?
The end of the cold war marked the triumph of this ideology, with the US emerging as the sole superpower.
What is Capitalism and democracy?
This new state, formed in 1948, continues to have ongoing conflict with its neighbors due to its formation and territorial disputes. Name it.
What is Israel?
This term described the ideological and physical division of Europe between the Western and Soviet blocs. Think Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This Southeast Asian nations independence from Dutch colonial rule involved a prolonged war of independence from 1945 to 1949.
What is Indonesia?
This Soviet leader launched the policy of Glasnost in the 1980’s.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This 1962 event brought the world to the brink of a nuclear war and led to the establishment of a hotline between the US and the USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The breakup of Yugoslavia resulted in the creation of several new nations, name one.
What is Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Slovenia, Macedonia, Serbia, or Montenegro?
This term describes a policy of willingness to go to the edge of war, used by both superpowers during the cold war to deter aggression.
What is Brinkmanship?
Name 3 examples of both armed and negotiated independence.
What is Algeria, Angola and Vietnam for armed and India, Ghana, and French West Africa for negotiated independence.
This 1947 policy, aimed at preventing the spread of communism, is often associated with the “domino theory.”
What is containment?
A series of negotiations between the US and the USSR during the Cold War to limit the number of strategic nuclear weapons and delivery systems each country could possess.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?