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Cold War
Superpower Rivalries
Communist China
African Nations Gain Independence
Nationalism: Africa and Middle East
100
The sharp division of Europe that was a result of Soviet actions.
What is the iron curtain?
100
A struggle between nations to gain an advantage in weapons.
What is an arms race?
100
Economic and political system in which government owns the means of production and and controls economic planning.
What is Communism?
100
Definition: "apartness"
What is the meaning of "apartheid"?
100
patriotic feeling, principles, or efforts.
What is nationalism?
200
A pledge to provide economic and military aid to oppose the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
History's first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
200
Designed this to increase China's industrial and agricultural output.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
200
Millions of blacks were forced to migrate and take up jobs in mines, factories, etc.
What was the result of apartheid?
200
Arab unity.
What is Pan-Arabism?
300
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
What does NATO stand for?
300
A confrontation between the U.S and Soviet Union over the installation of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
Movement which sought to rid China of its old ways and create a society in which peasants and physical labor were the ideal.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
Withdrawal of colonial powers from their colonies and areas of influence.
What is "decolonization"?
300
This led to the creation of Israel.
What is nationalism?
400
Policy of containment.
What contained the spread of communism from the Soviet Union?
400
The failed attempt of Cuban exiles backed by the U.S to overthrow the Cuban socialist government.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
400
High school and college students who carried out the work of the Cultural Revolution.
What are Red Guards?
400
What is the meaning of CPP?
Convention People's Party.
400
The confrontation with Britain, France, and Israel over the Suez Canal.
What is the Suez Crisis?
500
A massive effort to supply West Berlin by air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
Reduced tension between the superpowers.
What is détente?
500
Tanks and troops moved into the square killing many protestors.
What was the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
500
Gold Coast in West Africa.
What was the first British colony to gain independence in Africa?
500
The U.S.-led alliance against communism in the Middle East.
What is the Baghdad Pact?