World War II
These countries were part of the Allied Powers during WWII (name at least 4).
What were the US, Great Britain, France, and Russia?
These two areas were divided by the "iron curtain".
What were Communist Eastern Europe and Non-Communist Western Europe?
This is an extreme from of segregation that was used by the white minority against the black majority in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
This word describes a movement to establish a homeland for the Jewish people.
What is zionism?
This leader of Indian resistance against British rule used non-violent passive resistance, including a Salt March to protest an unfair hike in a salt tax.
Who was Mahatma Gandhi?
The side of the war including Germany, Japan, and Italy.
What is the Axis powers?
This was the purpose behind NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
What was to establish alliances?
This is the killing of people of other ethnic groups (or forcible removal of them) in order to create an ethnically "pure" area.
What is ethnic cleansing?
Political and economic theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
What is communism?
This author of the Communist Manifesto is known as the father of Communism.
Who is Karl Marx?
This is the progrom to provide the "final solution" to the "Jewish problem".
What was the Holocaust?
Stalin want satellite states in Eastern Europe because of this.
What was he wanted a buffer against future invasions?
The communist revolution in this country involved "killing fields", starvation of citizens, and a brutal excising of all western influences.
Where is Cambodia?
This Soviet answer to NATO involved satellite states that the Soviets controlled almost completely.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
This nationalist helped create a unified republic of Italy.
Who is Guiseppe Garibaldi (or Who is Count Camillo Cavour)?
This was the leader of Italy during WWII.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
The type of war the United States and Soviet Union used so they didn't have to fight one another directly.
What is a proxy war?
In Yugoslavia, leaders encouraged the killing of Muslims and Croats by this group of citizens?
Who are the Bosnian Serbs?
This is a period of relative stability, marked by sensible, even-keeled treatment of potential enemies.
What is détente?
This Prussian leader led German unification.
Who is Otto von Bismarck?
This was the controversial leader of Spain during WWII.
Who was Francisco Franco?
The "domino theory," or the idea that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, led to this U.S. policy that sought to prevent the spread of communism (and led to proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam).
What is containment?
The genocide in Rwanda involved this first group that killed as many as 800,000 of this second group.
Who are the Hutus and the Tutsis?
These ideas to open the Soviet Union were a last-ditch effort to keep it from collapsing (but were not enough).
What are glastnost and perestroika?
This leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia killed approximately 1/3 of his people while trying to rid Cambodia of all western and capitalist influences.
Who is Pol Pot?