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Test 4 Multiple Choice Flashcards

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Big three

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FDR(America), Churchill(England), Stalin(Soviet Union)

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Communist (eastern) bloc

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Communist states in eastern and central Europe

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Berlin airlift

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Soviet blockade of Berlin

Western allies airlifted supplies to West Berlin

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Truman doctrine

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US doctrine saying they would support all free people’s resistance to communism

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Hydrogen bomb

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Nuclear fusion

1,000x stronger than atomic bomb

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MAD (mutually assured destruction)

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Nuclear compatibility was a deterrent against nuclear war

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Containment “domino theory”

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If one country fell under communist control so would it’s neighboring countries

Containment=American policy to counter communist expansion

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House un-American activities committee (HUAC)

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Weed out potential communists in America

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First world “free world”

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Free world (from communism) US, Western Europe, Japan

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Second world

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Communist

USSR and communist bloc

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Third world

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Former colonies

Everybody else

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Nikita Khrushchev

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Critical of Stalin->de-stalinization

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“Secret speech”

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Critique of Stalin and Khrushchev’s plan

Khrushchev

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Welfare state

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Concept in which the government plays a key role in the protection and well-being of citizens

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China/Mao Zedong

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Chinese communist leader

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Indian independence/creation of Pakistan

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UK granted independence and split Hindu India and Muslim Pakistan

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Ghana/Kwame Nkrumah

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First independent African leader

Led Ghana to Independence from Britain

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Negritude (leopold senghor)

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Unites Africans culturally and socially

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Algerian war

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France vs. Algeria = Algeria gains independence

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Afrikaner Nationalist party

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Governing party of South Africa

Apartheid, republic, South African culture

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Viet Cong

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Communist guerilla fighters against south Vietnam

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Vietnam war

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Communist north vs. non-communist South

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Vietnamization

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U.S withdrawing troops and placing responsibility on the south Vietnamese government

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Some Cesaire’s “Discourse on Colonialism”

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A poet who wrote about the injustice and horrors of colonialism

Self-centered and not trying to help the colonies

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Simone de Beauvoir
Feminist writer who wrote about how gender is a construct
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Hannah Arendt/Totalitarianism
Describes and analyzes Nazism and Stalinism Prevent people from fighting back and take people’s desire away to do so
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Cuba/Fidel Castro
Prime minister and then president of Cuba
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Bay of pigs invasion
CIA tries to take over Cuba
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JFK and RFK
President and Secretary of State
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1960’s mass culture
Rock and roll, pop art, television, Hollywood, rebelling
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Rock and roll
New themes/lyrics Portable radios
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Abstract Impressionism
Modern art
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Pop art
Art using images from popular and mass culture
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National organization for women (NOW)
To take action and bring about equality for women
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Civil rights movement
Struggle for social justice for black people to have equal rights
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NAACP
Civil rights organization to advance justice for black people
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School desegregation (brown vs. board of education)
Supreme Court case that ended with segregated schools being unconstitutional
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Malcolm X/Black Nationalism
Leader of black nationalism Critical of King’s approach->he was more violent Urged followers to defend themselves against white aggression by “any means necessary”
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Great society
Lyndon b Johnson Largest social reform plan in modern history Main goals=ending poverty, reducing crime, abolishing inequality, and improving the environment
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War on poverty
Lyndon Johnson declared war on poverty following a national poverty rate of 19% Set of initiatives proposed by Johnson (food stamps, work-study, Medicaid, Medicare)
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Vietnam war protests/Kent state massacre
Ohio national guard shot at unarmed college students protesting the war (killed 4)
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Tet offensive
Coordinated series of north Vietnamese attacks on south Vietnam Eroded American support for the war
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Prague spring
During the Cold War people from Czechoslovakia began campaigning for more freedom and reform against communism Czech people turning their backs on communism Called Prague spring because it was a time of hope
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Brezhnev Doctrine
Said the Soviet Union has the right to use military force to maintain the strict rule of the communist party
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Margaret thatcher
British prime minister Very unpopular Cut social welfare programs, privatized certain industries Boost economy conservatively
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Glasnost and peristroika
Openness and economic reform Gorbachev
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Fall of Berlin Wall (reunification of Germany)
The East German government opened the border up People started chipping away at the wall in celebration
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“Velvet” revolutions
Non-violent overthrow of communism in Czechoslovakia
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Collapse of the Soviet Union (generally)
Gorbachevs policies weakened the Soviet Union rather than strengthened it Poverty, unemployment, and civil wars
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Commonwealth of independent states (CIS)
Formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Russian “Wild West”
Lawless time in Russia Warlords and instability No clear rules for capitalist system
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Dayton accords
Peace agreement for Croats and Serbs Boundaries of Yugoslavia; territory
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Globalization
Businesses and organizations developing international influence
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Zimbabwe/Robert Mugabe
Leader of Zimbabwe since it’s independence Crimes against humanity -suffering economically, media freedoms taken away, starvation
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F.W. De Clerk
White South African President that released Mandela and ended apartheid
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Fall of apartheid/1994 elections (Nelson Mandela)
Nelson Mandela became president Apartheid over

Western Civilizations (8 decks)

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