World History AP- Unit 8-9
Across
- 2. an economic program that allows free enterprise ans no more regulated business
- 4. the culture of everyday people rather than the educated elite
- 9. spreads through contaminated water and causes about 95,000 deaths per year, especially in prevalent developing countries
- 11. The government of Egypt seized the Suez Canal from the French and British.
- 14. attempt to improve relations between the Western and Eastern Blocs
- 17. anytime the U.S government involves themselves in Latin or Central America
- 19. these nations were developing countries that announced their neutrality during the Cold War.
- 24. 15 countries, 5 of them are permanent, U.S Great Britain, France, Russia, China. They had special privileges like the power to veto. The other 10 members have a select term and rotate.
- 25. was the site of a 1989 pro-democracy public event where hundred of thousands of people staged a protest demanding civil rights
- 26. United States and Russia following WWII for the next 40 years
- 27. being on the edge of war without engaging in battle to force an opponent to back down
- 28. were local or regional wars in which superpowers armed, trained or financed the warring nations.
- 31. campaign by China ordered by Mao to purge the communist party
- 33. One country becomes communist the ones around it will fall
- 34. ideological barrier between the Soviet Union and non-communist countries of the west
Down
- 1. settles disputes of international law that countries bring to it
- 3. Made up of every member and everyone has a vote
- 5. During this conference Germany was split up into four zones, unconditional surrender from Japan, and Stalin knew about the bomb.
- 6. a five- year economic plan by Mao Zeodong and the Chinese Communist Party
- 7. eradicated diseases like Polio and measles
- 8. program of loans that were designed to help rebuild the infrastructure of western Europe
- 10. they should open another front in WWII
- 12. U.S sponsored invasion of Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro failed
- 13. opening up of a country's economy through relaxation of trade restrictions
- 15. USSR installed missiles in Cuba to taunt the U.S as retaliation for Bay of Pigs
- 16. Pact binds together the Soviet Union and eastern european states
- 18. an alliance of countries from Europe and North America that protects the people and territory of its members
- 20. affects more than 1 billion people worldwide and the WHO predicts that by 2025, half of the world’s population will lack clean and safe drinking water
- 21. allowed women to have far fewer children than historically and opened the door for women to enter the workforce in much greater numbers
- 22. used to cure bacterial infections
- 23. caused by water contaminated by fecal matter. A vaccine was developed in 1955, and then a pill soon after, largely got rid of Polio.
- 29. On Feb. 1944, when Germany fell apart there was a meeting held to negotiate what they were going to do with Germans collected lands.
- 30. allows the government to be more transparent and grants the people more freedom and opens the government up to criticism.
- 32. often associated with areas of poverty and was particularly deadly before proper treatment