Cold War
Nikita Khrushchev built this wall to divide East and West, both symbolically and literally
What is the Berlin Wall
This policy involves extending power and influence over another country for the purpose of exploitation.
What is Imperialism?
This political concept suggests the idea that pride in one's nation can help lead to the independence of a nation from a foreign power.
A system of government in which priests (or priest) rule in the name of God or a god.
What is a theocracy.
The Partition of India led to India and Pakistan fighting wars over this water rich province, which contains the head waters of the Indus River.
What is the Kashmir Province?
Leonid Brezhnev wanted to deescalate the cold war with this policy.
Detente
This massacre involving the killing of hundreds of protesting civilians marked the beginning of Mahatma Gandhi's commitment to India's independence movement.
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
Jiang Jieshi (Chiang Kai-shek) failed to defend Japan from the onslaught of the Japanese yet was initially successful in suppressing this political party in China.
What is the Chinese Communist Party?
The dissatisfaction of the Ulamas, as well as the CIA and MI6 were due to the communist views of this individual.
Who is Mossaddeq?
Deng Xiaoping introduced these successful reforms that modernized China in the areas of Industry, Agriculture, Mathematics and Science, and Military.
What are the Four Modernizations?
Gorbachev established these two major reforms that among other things, allowed criticism of the Soviet System and privatized businesses.
What is Glasnost and Perestroika
Gandhi's actions against British rule are not defined by violence, but rather a form of peaceful protest where the oppressor persecutes the protestor without protestor retaliation.
What is Civil Disobedience?
You go to China and see his face everywhere, yet his Great Leap Forward was certainly a Great Leap Backwards.
Who is Mao Zedong?
What is the White Revolution
Although Deng Xiaoping implemented vast reforms "freeing" the economic system of China, this human rights violation involving Tank Man proves that China is still an authoritarian state.
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
This policy of foreign relationships during the Cold War was adopted by India.
Non-Alignment
The Salt March proved to the world how oppressive British Rule over India was. It would eventually lead to this event that Indian Nationalists had been longing for.
What is India's Independence?
What are Communes?
Although certainly satisfying the people of Iran through overthrow of the Shah, this man implemented Sharia Law as the model for government, severely limiting the rights of women.
What is Ayatollah Khomeini?
This modern leader of Russia recently invaded Ukraine, committing a human rights violation by creating a humanitarian crisis.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
Truman's Doctrine was characterized by this policy which attempts to stop communism from spreading.
What is Containment?
This proposed resolution to the disagreements between Hindus and Muslims was resented by Gandhi, who favored a united Indian Subcontinent.
What is the Lahore Resolution?
Mao's Littel Red Book, Red Guards, and the persecution of intellectuals are all associated with this "cleansing" of China's Communist Party.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This crisis held 52 American citizens hostage for a total of 444 days, leading to hostile relationships between Iran and the United States.
What is the Iranian Hostage Crises?
Iran today fails to provide human rights and freedoms to what group of people?
Women