Cold War, Post Colonialism, and Globalization

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  1. 2. purportedly had weapons of ____ ___________.
  2. 5. Pong Diplomacy Began opening Chinese-American relations and the U.S. recognition of Communist China since it was formed in 1949.
  3. 7. (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) Agreement to freeze the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles that Soviets and US could keep
  4. 10. of Soviet Union Eastern Europe experienced turmoil including, unemployment, wars, and instability after this event in 1991. They had been dependent on its control.
  5. 11. and political openness In the 1980's, Mikhail Gorbachev changed the Soviet Union's foreign policy by allowing more ____________... This helped lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
  6. 13. Genocide in ______ (Africa) was partly caused when the Belgians favored the Tutsis over the Hutus, then left
  7. 17. Cuban Missile Crisis- USA and the Soviet Union had a dangerous standoff over the presence of Soviet missiles in...
  8. 18. Indian statesman. He succeeded Mohandas K. Gandhi as leader of the Indian National Congress. He negotiated the end of British colonial rule in India and became India's first prime minister (1947-1964).
  9. 19. Pot and the Khmer Rouge Communist dictator and political party in Cambodia, 1975-1979. Goal was to create a classless peasant farming society but caused a genocide in which 1.5 million were killed.
  10. 20. Airlift Joint effort by the US and Britain to fly food and supplies into W Berlin after the Soviet blocked off all ground routes into the city
  11. 22. Many Chinese students joined in protests, including one in Tiananmen Square, demanding democratic reforms from the communist government. The Chinese ________ used force to kill the protesters.
  12. 23. economic system used to reshape China's government after the Chinese civil war
  13. 25. Qaeda The USA went to war in Afghanistan in 2001 because the Taliban allowed ________ to train/operate in Afghanistan
  14. 26. Technology enables globalization by allowing nations to _______ and connect culturally
  15. 28. and cultural hegemony How do developed nations continue to control developing nations?
  16. 29. Race (Cold War) USA and USSR competed in the development and accumulation of weapons (especially nuclear)
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  1. 1. destruction U.S. went to war in Iraq in 2003 because
  2. 3. extremist Islamic group that seized control of Afghanistan during the 1990s and protected Al Qaeda
  3. 4. of the Berlin Wall Caused the reunification of Germany
  4. 6. First known kingdom in sub-Saharan West Africa between the sixth and thirteenth centuries A.D. It was a British colony known as the Gold Coast and the first in Africa to gain its independence in 1957.
  5. 8. A system of legal racial segregation enforced by the National Party government in South Africa between 1948 and 1994, under which the rights of the majority black inhabitants of South Africa were curtailed and minority rule by whites was maintained.
  6. 9. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora. The area had been home of the Palestinians and has been a major source of conflict in the region.
  7. 11. Chinese students demanded democratic reform in 1989 because China's __________ had opened up, and they wanted a more open government too.
  8. 12. 3 motives for terrorism include politics, religion, and...
  9. 14. Churchill's phrase "an iron curtain has descended across the continent" meant that Eastern Europe was _________ from Western Europe by Communism
  10. 15. Religious fighters who fought against the Soviet Union and Afghanistan's Communist government in the 1980s.
  11. 16. security As technology improves, it will become easier for disenfranchised individuals and groups to cause massive destruction. This is why _________ is a growing concern.
  12. 17. Missile Crisis (1962) October 1962. Closest point to nuclear war at any time between the U.S. and the USSR. U.S. discovered Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba, President JFK demanded their removal and announced a naval blockade of the island; Soviet leader Khrushchev gave in to the U.S. demands when the U.S. agreed to remove missiles from Turkey
  13. 21. Wide Web Web browsers revolutionized technology by enabling regular people to access the _______
  14. 24. Zedong (1893-1976) Chinese Communist leader who drove the National Chinese out of China in 1949, creating the People's Republic of China. He instituted brutal measures to achieve Communist control of China, including the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
  15. 27. Because Europeans ignored ethnic and cultural divisions when creating independent countries and leaving Africa, parts of Africa have endured major ________.