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NEW DELHI — Leaders from former colonies announce they will not formally side with either the United States or the Soviet Union in the Cold War.
What is the Non-Alignment Movement?
This African nation dismantled apartheid in the early 1990s and elected Nelson Mandela as its first Black president.
What is South Africa?
This technological innovation, developed during World War II, was the first nuclear weapon and was used by the United States against Japan in 1945.
What is the atomic bomb?
This US programme under Franklin D. Roosevelt provided jobs, infrastructure projects and economic relief during the 1930s.
What was the New Deal?
This Cold War conflict began when North Korean forces crossed the 38th parallel in 1950, drawing in both the United States and China.
What is the Korean War?
WARSAW — Workers at a shipyard have formed an independent trade union movement. Despite government opposition, membership continues to grow across the country.
What was solidarity?
These are the NAFTA nations.
What are the USA, Mexico and Canada?
The launch of this Soviet satellite in 1957 shocked the United States and intensified the Space Race.
What is Sputnik I?
This is the plan that helped Europe rebound from WWII's destruction.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1979 conflict began when the Soviet Union invaded a mountainous Central Asian country, becoming the USSR’s version of “Vietnam.”
What was the Soviet-Afghan War?
MOSCOW — The Soviet government announces policies of “openness” and “restructuring” in an effort to reform its struggling economy and political system.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
These are the Nuclear nations
What are China, Pakistan, India, DPRK, USA, UK, France, Russia, Israel?
In 1969, this event demonstrated U.S. technological superiority when humans first landed on the Moon.
What is the Apollo 11 Moon Landing?
This country’s government created Special Economic Zones in the 1980s that offered incentives to foreign businesses while maintaining one-party political control.
What is China?
Egypt’s nationalization of the Suez Canal in 1956 led Britain, France, and Israel to launch this short-lived military intervention.
What was the Suez Crisis?
CAIRO — Leaders from Asia and Africa gather to discuss decolonization and cooperation among newly independent nations.
What is the Bandung Conference?
Following the death of Josip Broz Tito, this multinational state fractured during the 1990s into several independent countries.
What was Yugoslavia?
Identify the technological trend: container shipping, satellite communications, and the Internet all contributed to this major process emphasised in Unit 9.
What is globalisation?
Beginning in the late 20th century, governments in countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States reduced welfare spending, privatised industries, and encouraged free-market competition under this economic philosophy.
What is neoliberalism?
Following the breakup of Yugoslavia, this conflict in the 1990s became infamous for ethnic cleansing and the siege of Sarajevo.
What was the Bosnian War?
SEOUL — South Korea reports rapid industrial growth driven by exports, manufacturing, and government support for major corporations.
What is the East Asian economic miracle?
These countries first began the EEC (later known as the EU).
Who are Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands?
This scientific breakthrough, achieved by James Watson, Dr Rosalind Franklin and Francis Crick in 1953, revolutionised genetics and later contributed to projects such as genetic engineering and the Human Genome Project.
What is the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA?
Many newly independent nations used government subsidies and tariffs to promote domestic industries, following this economic strategy.
What is import substitution industrialization (ISI)?
This conflict between India and Pakistan in 1971 resulted in the creation of a new nation: Bangladesh.
What was the Bangladesh Liberation War?