Cold War
What was the primary ideological conflict between the US and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
What is Communism and Capitalism/Democracy
What is a proxy war?
What is a conflict where two opposing powers support opposing sides rather than fighting each other directly?
US and Soviet involvement in Angola, Vietnam, Korea, and more
What does decolonization primarily refer to?
What is the process by which colonies gained independence from colonial/imperial powers
Which country gained independence from Britain in 1947 largely due to Gandhi's efforts?
What is India?
What was Gorbachev's policy of Glasnost?
What is political openness and freedom of speech/transparency in government?
What US policy aimed at preventing the spread of communism beyond its existing borders?
What is Containment?
What is the
Name one example of a new state that's economy was successful
What is Egypt (nationalizing the Suez Canal) or
What is India (Green Revolution)?
State led Development
Who was the American civil rights leader inspired by Gandhi's methods of non-violent resistance?
Who is Martin Luther King Jr?
What was a significant factor contributing to the collapse of the Soviet Union other than Gorbachev's policies?
What is Economic stagnation / the rise of nationalism within Soviet republics?
What term did Winston Churchill coin to describe the division between Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe and the West?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What military alliance did Western democratic nations form to counter Soviet expansion?
What is NATO?
Name one way a decolonized state gained independence with an example?
What is peacefully like India, Ghana, or French West Africa? or
What is violently like Algeria, Vietnam, or Angola?
What is the significance of the IRA (Northern Ireland), ETA (Spain), Shining Path (Peru), and Al-Qaeda
What are non-state terrorist groups used violence against civilians to achieve political goals?
What was the primary cause of the Sino-Soviet split in the 1960s?
What is ideological disagreements over the correct path to communism?
What doctrine held that a nuclear attack by one superpower would result in the total destruction of both?
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
What was the US primarily trying to prevent in the Vietnam War?
What is to stop the spread of communism?
Why did many decolonized nations accumulate large foreign debts
What is they needed to borrow to build infrastructure that colonial powers never developed? (lack of exports)
Borrowed from IMF and World Bank
What is the NAM (Non-Aligned Movement)?
What is a bloc of nations that refused to align with either the US or USSR, seeking independence from Cold War pressure
Why did Chinese Communism succeed while the Soviets didn't?
What is market socialism which allowed for free-market elements and foreign trade while maintaining strict state control?
What 1962 event brought the US and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Which country gained independence from France after the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in 1954?
What is Vietnam?
How did arbitrary colonial borders contribute to instability in newly independent African nations?
What is they divided ethnic groups or forced rival groups together, leading to internal conflict and civil war?
What was Gandhi's 1930 Salt March a protest against, and why was it significant?
What is British salt taxes; it demonstrated the power of mass non-violent civil disobedience to challenge colonial rule ?
What was a key difference between Mao's communism and Soviet communism under Lenin and Stalin?
What is Mao emphasized the peasantry/rural population as the revolutionary force rather than the urban proletariat