People, Places, & Events (Part l) Flashcards
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| 361671877 | Apartheid | a social policy or racial segregation involving political and economic and legal discrimination against non-whites | 0 | |
| 361671878 | Asian Tigers | Collective name for South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore-nations that became economic powers in the 1970s and 1980s. | 1 | |
| 361671879 | Aswan Dam | one of the world's largest dams on the Nile River in southern Egypt | 2 | |
| 361671880 | Ataturk, Kemel Mustafa | "Father of the Turks" who helped to create Republic of Turkey and wanted to modernize [westernize] Turkey as well as separate religion and government | 3 | |
| 361671881 | Ayatollah Khomeini | Iranian religious leader of the Shiites | 4 | |
| 361671882 | Balfour Declaration | British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI issued by Britain's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour in 1917 | 5 | |
| 361671883 | Berlin Airlift | airlift in 1948 that supplied food and fuel to citizens of west Berlin when the Russians closed off land access to Berlin | 6 | |
| 361671884 | Berlin War | divider between East and West Berlin in Germany, eastern side communist and western side democratic; eventually was knocked down | 7 | |
| 361671885 | Bolshevik Party | the party that seized power under Lenin's leadership. | 8 | |
| 361671886 | Castro, Fidel | Communist leader who took over Cuba in 1959 and established close ties with USSR. Making Cuba a socialist country. | 9 | |
| 361671887 | Chiang Kai Shek | Leader of the Nationalist Party after 1925; major goal was to crush the communist movement led by Mao Zedong. | 10 | |
| 361671888 | Churchill, Winston | British Prime Minister during World War II; instrumental in leading Britain to victory during World War II; responsible for British resistance to German air assaults. | 11 | |
| 361671889 | Cuban Missle Crisis | Soviets set up missle bases in cuba under Fidel Castro. | 12 | |
| 361671890 | Cultural Revolution | Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation(carried out largely by the Red Guard). | 13 | |
| 361671891 | Deng Xioaping | Took over after Mao & led a group of practical minded reformers, ended cultural rev., shift towards family traditions, clothing changed, names not patriotic. | 14 | |
| 361671892 | Eastern Bloc | Soviet allies in eastern Europe, including Bulgaria, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Hungary. | 15 | |
| 361671893 | European Economic Community | Economic organization established in 1957 to reduce tariff barriers and promote trade among the countries of Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, France, Italy, and West Germany. | 16 | |
| 361671894 | European Union | international organization comprised of Western European countries to promote free trade among members | 17 | |
| 361671895 | Fourteen Points | War aims outlined by President Wilson in 1918, which he believed would promote lasting peace. | 18 | |
| 361671896 | Gandhi, Mahatmas | Revolutionary who led India to independence from Great Britain through passive resistance and civil disobedience. | 19 | |
| 361671897 | Garvey,Marcus | African American leader from 1919 to 1926 who urged African Americans to return to their "motherland" of Africa; provided early inspiration for "black pride" movements. | 20 | |
| 361671898 | Great Leap Forward | a five-year economic plan that collectivized farms in China and put them into communes | 21 | |
| 361671899 | Hitler, Adolph | German leader of National Socialist (Nazi) Party 1933-1945; rose to power by promoting racist and nationalist views. | 22 | |
| 361671900 | Ho Chi Minh | Communist leader of North Vietnam in World War II. | 23 | |
| 361671901 | Holocaust | the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler | 24 | |
| 361671902 | Hussein,Saddam | President of Iraq since 1979. He has led his control into two devastating wars, one against Iran in 1980 to 1988, and the Persian Gulf War in 1990 - 1991 which started as a result of his invading Kuwait. | 25 | |
| 361671903 | IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency) | Branch of U.N. that monitors nuclear energy around world; focused on Iraqi nuclear disarmament. | 26 | |
| 361671904 | IMF (International Monetary Fund) | Agency of the United Nations with the role of making national currencies and financial markets more stable. | 27 | |
| 361671905 | Intifada | An uprising by Palestinian Arabs in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000. | 28 | |
| 361671906 | Iran-Iraq War | 1980-1988: Saddam Hussein attempted to gain more land in order to help establish a platform for leadership in the Arab world. The US backed Iran. | 29 | |
| 361671907 | Iron Curtain | Winston Churchill's term for a political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eatern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region. | 30 | |
| 361671908 | Israel | Jewish republic in southwestern Asia at eastern end of Mediterranean. | 31 |