Early Cold War
The Three World system categorized countries based on their alliances. It was made up of the First World, Second World, and the Third World.
What are the Western Bloc, Eastern Bloc, and neutral countries?
The greatest (and most destructive) nuclear bomb ever tested by a great world power.
What is Tsar Bomba and the USSR?
The leader of the INC, who promoted nonviolent resistance to challenge British Rule through protests, boycotts, marches, and civil disobedience.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
An agreement to limit the number of nuclear missiles each country had, which was created during the Détente.
What is SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)?
The development of integrated worldwide cultural and economic structures
What is Globalization?
The United Nations was created in 1945 to replace a peacekeeping organization that failed to prevent the Second World War. The number of founding countries and the five countries on the permanent security council.
What is the League of Nations, 51, and the countries USSR, China, US, UK, and France?
These were essentially the "battlegrounds" of the Cold War, which allowed the USSR and USA to confront each other without fighting each other directly.
What are the Olympics, Proxy Wars, and the Space (technology) Race?
The European settlers living in Algeria who had more rights and privileges than the Native Algerians.
Who were the pieds-noirs?
The "Great Communicator" and "Iron Lady" who decided that the best way to beat the Soviets was to outspend them. The "Great Communicator" decided to launch a new program, SDI ("Star Wars"), to scare the USSR into bankrupting itself.
Who are Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher?
Invention led to the widespread use of the internet, making it easier to access. Abbreviated as WWW.
What is the World Wide Web?
A set of four international treaties that outline the standards for ethical warfare that were created by the United Nations.
What are the Geneva Conventions?
The idea that if each country has the ability and power to obliterate the other, then neither would risk attacking.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
Leader who helped form the Convention People's Party (CPP) and fought against British rule using a combination of mass protests, strikes, and political mobilization, gaining support from urban workers and students.
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
Ended the Détente, the period of reduced tensions between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
What was the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
The process of things becoming more similar and standardized. Now, much of the world operates based on efficiency and predictability, from brands to education to healthcare to movies. However, this leads to smothering the unique identity of local cultures.
What is McDonaldization?
The foreign policy pursued by the United States and other countries of the Western Bloc that attempted to prevent the spread of communism after the Second World War.
What is the Containment Policy?
The theory that if one nation “falls” to communism, its neighbors will follow
What is the Domino Theory?
An act passed by the UK that separated the Muslims and Hindus living in India which led to mass violence, religious riots, the displacement of over 10 million people
What is the Partition?
Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms, which focused on revitalizing the Soviet economy and society through giving more rights to individuals, allowing private business ownership, handing over more freedom to the market, relaxing censorship policies, releasing political prisoners, and giving more access to the history of the USSR. These reforms ultimately brought forth the end of the USSR, worsening, and exposing the current problems within the country.
What are Perestroika (Restructuring) and Glasnost (Openness)?
A geological period defined by what is causing the most change to the planet at a certain time
What is an Epoch?
A military alliance formed by communist nations in 1955 in retaliation to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization...
What was the Warsaw Pact?
A guerrilla war fought in Asia where the pro-communism north ultimately won. It was a major proxy war that the USA and USSR fought, and was highly unpopular in the United States.
What is the Vietnam war?
The legal racial segregation and the oppression of non-white South Africans. These laws controlled where people could live, work, go to school, and whom they could marry, which was enforced through police brutality and constant surveillance.
What is Apartheid?
The significance of this date was that Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, and the Soviet hammer and sickle flag was replaced by the Russian tricolor on the government building, signaling the end of the USSR.
What is December 25th, 1991?
An inaccurate categorization method that separates the countries with high GDPs, life expectancies, and advanced technology from the countries that are still recovering from imperialism and are abundant with natural resources.
What are the Global North and the Global South?