Unit 8

Question 1

Cold War 8.1

Answer 1

democrat vs comm. nuclear arms and severe combat between the allied countries and the axis powers

Question 2

Non-Aligned Movement 8.2

Answer 2

movement by lower developed and income states who chose to be bystanders to the war and wished to not get involved, led by India and Yugoslavia

Question 3

Kwame Nkrumah 8.2 8.5

Answer 3

First prime minister of Ghana and leader of nonviolent protests for freedom by economic projects

Question 4

Proxy Wars (Korean War and Angolan Civil War) 8.3

Question 5

Communist Revolution in China 8.4

Answer 5

Mao Zedongs goal wit the communist revolution in china was to preserve Chinese communism by taking away leftovers of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society and enforce “Maoism”

Question 6

Great Leap Forward 8.4

Answer 6

the campaign undertaken by the Chinese communists between 1958 and early 1960 to organize its vast population, especially in large-scale rural communes, to meet China’s industrial and agricultural problems.

Question 7

Communist Revolution for Vietnamese Independence 8.4

Question 8

Decolonization 8.5

Answer 8

the undoing of colonialism, where a nation establishes and maintains its domination over dependent territories.

Question 9

Indian National Congress 8.5

Answer 9

A movement and political party founded in 1885 to demand greater Indian participation in government. Its membership was middle class, and its demands were modest until World War I.

Question 10

Muslim League 8.5

Answer 10

an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India’s Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations. Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Question 11

Partition of India 8.6

Answer 11

separate and division of India into Hindu nation and Muslim nation. (Truth force)- Nonviolent resistance to end injustice. A lot of violence and bloodshed between Hindus/Muslims.

Question 12

Creation of Israel 8.6

Question 13

Metropole 8.6

Answer 13

A home country in relation to its colonies, the mother country.

Question 14

Mohandas Gandhi 8.7

Answer 14

Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance. He became leader of the Indian National Congress in 1920. He appealed to the poor,led nonviolent demonstrations against British colonial rule, and was jailed many times.

Question 15

Martin Luther King, Jr. 8.7

Answer 15

He was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. Martin Luther King Jr. led several nonviolent movements and demonstrations that helped to fight for Black rights.

Question 16

Nelson Mandela 8.7

Answer 16

11th President of South Africa. Spent 27 years in prison after conviction of charges while he helped spearhead the stuggle against apartheid.

Question 17

Francisco Franco 8.7

Answer 17

Spanish dictator General; organized the revolt in Morocco, which led to the Spanish Civil War, He rose to power during the bloody Spanish Civil War when, with the help of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, his Nationalist forces overthrew the democratically elected Second Republic.

Question 18

Shining Path 8.7

Answer 18

a terrorist group in Peru. When it first started the period of terrorism in 1980, its stated goal was to replace the bourgeois democracy with “New Democracy”.

Question 19

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 8.8

Answer 19

A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People’s Democratic Party of Afghanistan government against the Mujahideen resistance.