Name of economy that exists under communism. Typically in this economic system, the government owns the means of production, distribution, and exchange. The Government makes all basic decisions and plans the economy.
What is a command economy?
100
Name of the communist leader that rose to power as a result of the Long March.
What is Mao Zedong?
100
Name of movement to unify Africans and people of African descent all over the world.
What is Pan-Africanism?
100
Name of the Jewish state created post WWII when the UN decided to divide Palestine.
What is Israel?
200
Massive economic aid package designed to strengthen democratic governments and lessen the appeal of communism. Also used to help nations recover from WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Name of the economic system that combines elements of market and command economies.
What is a mixed economy?
200
Name of Mao's failed economic plan that's goal was to increase agricultural and industrial output.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
200
Leader of the Kenyan independence movement
Who was Jomo Kenyatta?
200
Name of 1979 peace meeting between Carter, Anwar Sadat (Egypt) and Menachem Begin (Israel).
What are the Camp David Accords?
300
Defensive alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviets and their satellites of Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Name of the European organization that includes 27 nations, that aims to improve European trade, politics, and global power. They also created the Euro!
What is the EU (European Union)?
300
Name of Mao's 1966 plan to renew communist loyalties (also a failure).
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
Vocabulary term meaning affiliation/loyalty to a tribe.
What is tribalism?
300
Name of the Iranian leader who forced the Shah out of power and implemented an Islamic Republic in Ran in 1979.
Who was Ayatollah Khomeini?
400
Name of U.S. foreign policy that aimed to limit the spread of communism.
What is containment?
400
Nickname for the four rapidly developing economies of the Pacific Rim (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, and South Korea).
What is "Asian Tigers"?
400
Name of Chinese communist leader responsible for the Four Modernizations.
What is Deng Xiaoping?
400
Name of the leader of the African National Congress who was arrested and sentenced for life in the anti-apartheid movement. He was later freed and elected the President of South Africa.
Who was Nelson Mandela?
400
Name of Taliban Leader responsible for orchestrating the September 11th attacks on the U.S.
Who was Osama Bin Laden?
500
Name of the dog the Soviets sent to space that could not withstand the heat.
What is Laika?
500
Name of the group formed in 1960 by the nations of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. Their goal is to control the oil industry by setting production levels and prices.
What is OPEC (Organization of petroleum exporting countries)?
500
Location of May 1989 protest turned government massacre in China.
What is Tienanmen Square?
500
Names of the Two groups that conflicted in Rwanda... hint it was an example of genocide.
What are the Hutus and the Tutsis?
500
Dictator if Iraq responsible for the involvement in the Iran-Iraq war, the Persian Gulf War, and the Iraq war with the U.S.