Ch.37 Flashcards
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| 157717233 | Causes of Cold War (Capitalism v. Communism) - | Capitalism: Protected social and economic rights of citizens by accepting idea of welfare; state and government intervention in economy. Communism- Disdain civil liberties and suppressed civil and religious rights | 0 | |
| 157717234 | Non-alignment- | Discussed at Bandung Conference; Asian and African countries would remain neutral | 1 | |
| 157717235 | Berlin blockade/ Berlin airlift- | East Germany blockade roads and railways to West Berlin; US brought everything in by aircraft | 2 | |
| 157717236 | Causes and Consequences of the Korean War- | Communism vs. democracy; conflict continues today | 3 | |
| 157717237 | Containment- | US to contain communism from expanding | 4 | |
| 157717238 | Bay of Pigs- | Trained Cubans to overthrow government (US); invasion failed | 5 | |
| 157717239 | Cuban Missile Crisis- | Soviet Union had missiles in Cuba pointed towards US so US asked them to withdraw; they did | 6 | |
| 157717240 | Eastern European countries controlled by USSR (who were the exceptions) - | Satellite Nations; part of Warsaw pact | 7 | |
| 157717241 | Black Nationalism- | fight for freedom; leaders influenced each other | 8 | |
| 157717242 | Civil Rights Movement in US- | challenge to segregation; blacks fought for equal rights | 9 | |
| 157717243 | Vivisection- | Partitioned independence; divided India into Muslims and Hindus; Gandhi was against because he knew neither could survive if separated (like a body) | 10 | |
| 157717244 | Mohandas Gandhi- | congress party; against partition; worked for reforms | 11 | |
| 157717245 | Palestine/ Zionist conflict- | wanted to return to Palestine (believed to be original home of the Jews; Arabs (Muslims) were already there; battle brewed | 12 | |
| 157717246 | Creation of Israel- | Jews held strongly against British, so allowed them to withdraw from Pakistan | 13 | |
| 157717247 | Nasser and Egypt- | Nasser wanted to take control of; named himself prime minister and reformed many things | 14 | |
| 157717248 | Suez Crisis- | Nasser abolished British military rights to canal; Nasser wanted to rid world of Egypt and Arab imperialism | 15 | |
| 157717249 | France in Africa- | wanted to control Algeria; Algerians revolted against French rule | 16 | |
| 157717250 | Algeria- | war of liberation under National Liberation Front (against France) | 17 | |
| 157717251 | Kenya and Mau Mau - | Between white settlers and nationalists; was violent. Mau Mau- Secret kikuyu society (violent campaigns against Europeans and African traitors) | 18 |