4125300020 | Broke from war, Colonies Helped in war, Evil Imperialism caused wars | Why decolonization happened | 0 | |
4125301851 | Cotton, Indentured Servants, No Civil Rights | Examples of poor treatment of India | 1 | |
4125302849 | South Africa | Where indentured servants from India were sent | 2 | |
4125304619 | Indian National Congress | group formed by Hindu nationalist leaders of India in the late 1800's to gain greater democracy and eventual self-rule | 3 | |
4125305573 | Muslim League | Indian organization formed by muslims in 1906 to protect their interests against British Rule | 4 | |
4125306228 | Religous Divide | Why India has always had so much trouble uniting | 5 | |
4125306969 | Indian Assembly Law | Discriminatory law which stated that indians couldn't gather in groups larger than 50 | 6 | |
4125310549 | Amritsar Massacre | killing by British troops of nearly 400 Indians gathered to protest the Rowlatt Acts | 7 | |
4125314035 | Rowlatt Acts | Laws that allowed the British government in India to jail protesters without trial for as long as two years | 8 | |
4125317953 | Satyagraha | the form of nonviolent resistance initiated in India by Mahatma Gandhi in order to oppose British rule and to hasten political reforms | 9 | |
4125319200 | Tightened Control | How British responded to Indian help in WWI | 10 | |
4146956731 | Cold War | A conflict that was between the US and the Soviet Union. The nations never directly confronted each other on the battlefield but deadly threats went on for years | 11 | |
4146958161 | NATO | Alliance of the allied powers against the Soviets and communism spread | 12 | |
4146962262 | Warsaw Pact | An alliance between the Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations. This was in response to NATO | 13 | |
4146964182 | Truman Doctrine | Stated that the U.S. would support any nation threatened by Communism | 14 | |
4146968334 | Marshall Plan | A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe | 15 | |
4146974733 | Prevented Poverty | How Marshall plan contributed to containment of communism | 16 | |
4146976646 | Containment | American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world | 17 | |
4146979855 | Brinksmanship | Idea to push nations like the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war without actually going to war | 18 | |
4146986154 | NATO, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan | Examples of United State containment of communism under truman | 19 | |
4146987526 | Government Ideology | What cold war started over | 20 | |
4146992879 | Buffer States | Cynical reason for Stalin forming Warsaw Pact | 21 | |
4147003419 | Eisenhower | American president behind brinkmanship | 22 | |
4147005756 | Khrushchev | Communist leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Stalin; hardline man but believed in beating United States economically, not militarily | 23 | |
4147016371 | Korean | First 'hot war' demonstrating United States containing communist spread | 24 | |
4226985675 | Ali Jinnah | Leader of the Muslim League, wanted an independent "Pakistan" (land of the pure) | 25 | |
4226989069 | Jawaharlal Nehru | Indian statesman and leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule; became first Indian prime minister | 26 | |
4226994450 | India, Pakistan, Bangladesh | Three nations india partitioned into | 27 | |
4227004989 | Resources, Buffer States | Reasons Stalin wanted to spread communism | 28 | |
4227020109 | Sputnik | The world's first space satellite. This meant the Soviet Union had a missile powerful enough to reach the US | 29 | |
4227026130 | Indochina | a French colony comprised of Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam | 30 | |
4227029541 | Japan then France then USA | Nations which Vietnamese fought against in order | 31 | |
4227035358 | Domino Theory | A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control. | 32 | |
4227037331 | Diem | Leader of South Vietnam, 1954-1963; supported by United States, but not by Vietnamese Buddhist majority; assassinated in 1963 | 33 | |
4227039767 | Thich Quang Duc | a Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk who burned himself to death at a busy Saigon road intersection | 34 | |
4227044413 | Johnson | US president who intensified involvement in war | 35 | |
4227046271 | Color TV, Peaceful monk | Why Quang Duc's burning caught lots of attention | 36 | |
4227053363 | Draft, TV, counterculture | Why USA left Vietname | 37 | |
4227056184 | Vietnamization | the gradual withdrawal of U.S. troops and their replacement with South Vietnamese forces | 38 | |
4227057916 | Nixon | US president who withdrew nation from war through policy of Vietnamization | 39 | |
4227060356 | No Fighting Will | Why veitnamization failed | 40 | |
4227067116 | landlocked, agricultural, communist | Reasons Laos was and is still impoverished | 41 | |
4227077406 | Pol Pot | Leader of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who terrorized the people of Cambodia throughout the 1970's | 42 | |
4227079685 | Khmer Rouge | communist party in Cambodia that imposed a reign of terror on Cambodian citizens | 43 | |
4227084196 | Proxy War | A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate | 44 | |
4227095202 | Mexico, Brazil | Two latin american nations democratic during cold war | 45 | |
4227099450 | Illegal immigrants, drugs, mobs, military control | Problems facing Mexican democracy | 46 | |
4227115831 | Anastasio Somoza | Took over as dictator of Nicaragua in 1933 with the aid of the United States | 47 | |
4227120164 | United Fruit Company | Evidence Somoza was bad leader of Nicaragua | 48 | |
4227121728 | Sandinista | revolution in Nicaragua in which the dictatorship was overthrown and a communist government was installed | 49 | |
4227127292 | Sandinistas | Communist Nicaraguan rebels who overthrow the Somoza dictatorship in 1979; backed by USSR | 50 | |
4227129095 | Contras | US backed side of war in Nicaragua | 51 | |
4227135340 | Nicaragua, Chile | Examples of Proxy war | 52 | |
4227139506 | Fulgencio Batista | Dictator of Cuba, Friendly to U.S.; promoted business with America | 53 | |
4227143606 | Che Guevara | Argentinean revolutionary leader; he was an aide to Fidel Castro during the Cuban revolution. | 54 | |
4227145788 | Fidel, Raul | Casto bros! | 55 | |
4227151017 | Peronist | Period in Argentinian history where Peron family ruled | 56 | |
4227156158 | Juan Peron | Populist who ruled Argentina; elected democratically at first but turned to fascism; had help of wife Eva before her death | 57 | |
4227162444 | populist | a supporter of the rights and power of the common people | 58 | |
4227170270 | Friedrich Hayek | economic freedom is central; classic liberal behind Austrian economics | 59 | |
4227177295 | Power, Hayek | Why Peron turned to fascism | 60 | |
4227182591 | Salvador Allende | a Marxist who was president of Chile; overthrown by CIA | 61 | |
4227186494 | Nicaragua, Chile | Examples of nations tarnished by US supported, anti-communist dictators | 62 | |
4227189248 | Augusto Pinochet | A dictator in Chile who came to power by a military takeover backed by CIA | 63 | |
4227200190 | Export Economy, Not industrial | Continuity in Africa | 64 | |
4227204145 | Imperialism Instability | Why Africa could not industrialize during twentieth century | 65 | |
4227209086 | Independence | Change in Africa | 66 | |
4233830787 | Non-Aligned Movement | The group of nations that didn't side with either the US or the USSR during the Cold War | 67 | |
4233833761 | Kwame Nkrumah | founder of Ghana's independence movement and Ghana's first president; wanted to unite Africa | 68 | |
4233837014 | Pan Africanism | emphasized the unity of Africans and people of African descent around the world | 69 | |
4233839320 | Cultural divide | Problem with pan africanism which prevented its success | 70 | |
4233842396 | Communist | Nkrumah's government philosophy | 71 | |
4233844637 | Negritude | a movement to celebrate African culture, heritage, and values | 72 | |
4233847638 | Communist, Ghana, Negritude, Pan Africanism | What Nkrumah is remembered for | 73 | |
4233849964 | Korean War | Reason behind formation of non-alignment movement | 74 | |
4233861184 | Military coups, disease, Ethnic conflict, new democratic instability | Problems plaguing 20th century africa | 75 | |
4233869068 | Apartheid | A social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites in SA | 76 | |
4233874279 | F. W. Klerk | the White South African president who ended apartheid and freed mandella | 77 | |
4233880345 | Somalia | Anarchist African country plauged by military coups | 78 | |
4233886924 | Darfur | a region in western Sudan where ethnic conflict threatened to lead to genocide of local non-muslim Africans | 79 | |
4233892740 | Khartoum | Muslim area of Sudan whose people frequently conflict with Darfur | 80 | |
4233899225 | Military Dictator, Ethnic conflict | What Sudan is known for | 81 | |
4233904964 | South Sudan | African nation known for its locally influenced version of Christianity | 82 | |
4233910361 | Ethnic conflicts, Ebola | What libera and Sierra lione are known for | 83 | |
4233916813 | Ibo | A member of a people of southeastern Nigeria, rebels | 84 | |
4233920831 | Abuja Capital | How did Nigera try to unite its ethnically different north and south | 85 | |
4233926727 | Ibo, Hausa, Fulani, Yoruba | Tribes of nigera which frequently do not get along | 86 | |
4233933132 | HIV, AIDS, Ebola | Diseases plauging modern africa | 87 | |
4233936320 | Pandemic | Term to describe HIV/AIDS outbreak | 88 |
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