Middle East
A plan that called for one state to be Jewish and the other Arab
What is a two-state solution?
A program that aimed to restructure the Soviet Economy
What is Perestroika?
War in this country lasted 3 years (1950-1953). It started and stopped at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
These two countries were former allies in WWII become adversaries during the Cold War
What is the Soviet Union and the United States?
The 1944 Dumbarton Oaks Conference resulted in a draft charter for a new organization that would replace the League of Nations
What is the United Nations?
This brief 1967 war resulted in Israel capturing the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, and the Sinai Peninsula.
What is the Six-Day War?
Its goal was to convince nations to stop making nuclear weapons. Some organizations raised awareness and worked with citizens to gather support or enacted policy.
What is the Nuclear Freeze Movement?
The United States fought this communist rebel force in Vietnam.
What is the Viet Cong?
Formed in 1949, this group was dedicated to mutual defense. Members agreed to treat an attack on one country as an attack on all.
What is NATO?
This body of the United Nation consists of all member states.
What is the General Assembly?
The talks in which Egypt agreed to recognize Israel as a nation and Israel agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt.
What is the Camp David Accords?
Reagan and Gorbachev held several arm control talks in the mid 1980s. They agreed to remove and destroy all European missiles with a range of 300 to 4,000 miles.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty?
The Communist group that led a large genocide in South East Asia killing approximately 1/5th of their population or 2 million people. They are killed in places known as the killing fields and placed in mass graves.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
A plan created by Communist leader Mao Zedong which set high targets for both agriculture and industry. The plan was a disaster leading to one of the greatest famines in human history.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
German leaders were brought before a court to be held accountable for war crimes and other atrocities they committed during the war.
What are the Nuremberg Trials?
A leader of the nonaligned movement and President of Egypt. He also promoted Pan-Arabism, a movement to unite Arab countries around common goals
Who is Nasser?
An arms program with the goal to defend the U.S. from incoming missile attacks by the Soviet Union?
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
An attempted invasion in Cuba by the U.S. which failed.
What is the Bay of Pig Invasion?
An imaginary line that divided Western and Eastern Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
a bank founded in 1944 by the United States and 43 other nations in order to provide loans to help countries recover from World War II and develop their economies
What is the World Bank?
Saddam Hussein, Iraqi dictator, invaded Kuwait and was given a deadline to withdraw but refused. His refusal led to a war.
What is the Persian Gulf War?
This policy reduced media censorship and enabled journalist to report on government corruption and societal problems. Everyday citizens were angry and protested. The government did not intend for people to feel empowered to this degree.
What is Glasnost?
The Panama Canal Riots of 1964 reflected this specific sentiment against which nation
What is longstanding resentment of US Imperialism?
This analysis of Soviet motivation by Kennan led to the policy eventually known as Containment.
What is the Long Telegram?
The United States gave billions of dollars to countries like the United Kingdom, France, and western Germany with the goal of rebuilding their postwar economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?