Cold War
A period in which tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union caused distrust between the two nations.
What is The Cold War?
This was the leader of the USSR who wished to reform the nation and reduce Cold War tensions.
Who is Gorbachev?
The term given to the process of mother nations granting their colonial holdings independence.
Decolonization
The Belief that Europeans were naturally superior to other peoples and was used as justification for imperialism.
Social Darwinism
This is the figure who led the Washington DC march in 1963 which led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act 1965.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
The event in which the USSR stationed missiles in Cuba that nearly led to the outbreak of Nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What is 1989?
This is the figure who led the non-violent protest of British imperialism in India.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
The Key trade routes of Unit 2 (Silk Road, Trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean) all expanded the influence of this religion.
What is Islam?
The period of Japanese industrialization, as the Emperor expanded his authority over the Shoguns.
The Meiji Restoration.
This is the term for wars where superpowers support an ally to avoid direct conflict with another superpower.
What are proxy wars?
This nation was dissolved in 1991 after a period of internal republics declaring independence.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
This was the movement of nations that decided not to choose sides with the larger Cold War.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
This small ship was invented by the Portuguese and sported a lateen sail to better catch the wind.
What is the caravel?
This Revolution, started in 1968, saw the Red Guard target intellectuals, teachers, and parents who were suspect of not supporting Mao.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This conference between the Allies laid the groundwork for the Cold War, as Stalin refused to allow elections in Eastern Europe.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
These are the two terms of Gorbachev's policies in adapting the USSR.
What are Perestroika & Glasnost?
This is the figure who protested apartheid policies of South Africa and was arrested as a terrorist for doing so. Later, became the first Black President in SA.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
This is the term for companies that helped fund European exploration in the period 1450-1750.
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
This south-east European nation collapsed, leading to the modern nations of Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, Kosovo & Macedonia.
What is Yugoslavia?
This type of bomb used fusion rather than fission to create a larger, more destructive explosion than the bombs used on Japan.
What is a hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb?
This figure led the Russian independence movement and became the first president of Russia.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
Jawaharlal Nehru led an industrialization campaign in this nation during the 1950's.
What is India?
This philosophy was popular in China, held high regards for filial piety and social order with respect for the ruler.
What is Confucianism?
Under feudalism (Europe) and the caste system (India), this group provided agricultural labor.
Who are peasants?