Cold War Era
The Cold War seperated Europe into 2 sections, divided by an imaginary border. What were the 2 sections? What political and economical system did each have? What was the division called?
Western Europe (capitalist and democratic) and Eastern Europe (communist). The Iron Curtain
What is civil disobedience?
Refusing to obey unjust laws through peaceful protests like boycotts.
Which country was united after 40 years of seperation in 1990? What had to happen before so that it could be united?
Invention that improved communication and trade and became the major contributor to globalization
Computer
Martin Luther King Jr. was an advocate leader of the civil rights movement to end what system that racially seperated people in the U.S.?
Segregation
Who was the first elected black president of South Africa?
Nelson Mandela
Name of the period of relaxation of tensions between the U.S. and the major communist countries during the 1970's.
Détente
What does it mean to be interdependent?
When countries rely on one another for goods, information and resources
What was the competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union to see who could have more missiles and atomic weapons called?
Arms race
British India got divided into which 2 countries? After this the mass migration of religious groups occured, where was each one forced to go to?
India and Pakistan. Hindus to India and Muslims to Pakistan.
Mikhail Gorbachev implemented 2 policies that became the first steps for the Soviet Union to fall. Which were they and what were each one about?
Glasnosts (more personal freedoms) and perestroika (rebuilding the economy by opening more free enterprise)
What were the 3 islamist military organizations that formed at the beginning of the 2000s and performed terrorist attacks?
Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and the Taliban
From what year to what year did the Cold War last?
1945-1990
Why did the Vietnam War end? What happened to Vietnam after it ended?
Because the U.S. withdrew from Vietnam after it realized it could not win. Vietnam became one communist united country.
Mao Zedong started the Cultural Revolution in China, what was it about?
It was a way to promote communism again in the country by changing the culture from the young to the older generations. Anyone who spoke out against it or wanted to introduce new ideas was persecuted.
What happened in 2008 that affected the whole world?
The Great Recession
What were 2 protests that happened during the civil rights movement to promote the rights of African Americans?
The boycott of buses, when Rosa Parks refused to leave her seat, the march on Washington
How did the Vietnam War start? Who started fighting with who? How did Vietnam get divided? Into which sections?
France wanted to regain Vietnam under its control after it declared its independence. Vietnam became divided into communist north and capitalist/democratic south. The U.S. entered the war to stop communism from spreading to the south part.
How did the Soviet Union fall? What happened?
The policies implemented by Gorbachev: glasnost and perestroika
The weak economy of the Soviet Union led to countries inside it to want change and independence.
Russia, made reforms to open private business and give more personal freedoms.
Organization that was made to arrange trade agreements and settle disputes?
What organization was made to unite countries economically and politically and grow over time?
WTO (World Trade Organization)
European Union