Global Changes After WW2 (Study Guide 5B)

This War was an ideological conflict between democratic nations and the spread of communism.

The Cold War

The Soviets blockaded their section of Berlin.

Berlin Blockade

China aimed to modernize and industrialize, but failed, causing widespread poverty.

The Great Leap Forward

A politically unstable, Latin American country with a single export economy (generally being exploited by outside corporations)

Banana Republic

Forced the French out of Indo-China during the Vietnam War.

Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Communist Rebels in South Vietnam.

Viet Cong

Deadly herbicide that the US sprayed over the Vietnamese jungles

Agent Orange

This group of people from the hills of Laos were recruited to help fight against the communists in Laos.

Hmong

pro-communist guerilla movement that was active in Nicaragua

Sandinistas

Built the Berlin Wall.

Nikita Khrushchev

First communist leader of China.

Mao Zedong

He led Vietnam's independence and pro-communist movements.

Ho Chi Minh

Leader of Khmer Rouge and responsible for the Cambodian genocide.

Pol Pot

Leader of the Hmong Army during the Secret War.

General Vang Pao

Leader of the Cuban Revolution

Fidel Castro

Communist leader of the USSR who tore down Berlin Wall

Mikhail Gorbachev

Used civil disobedience to help India gain independence.

Mahatma Gandhi

Helped fight against the South African Apartheid

Nelson Mandela

After the allied nations formed 1)….. , the Soviets allied with eastern European nations to form the alliance known as the 2)….

1) NATO 2) Warsaw Pact

The 1)… was the American policy of investing in countries to try and prevent them from becoming communist and falling for the 2)… effect.

1) Truman Doctrine 2) Domino

The 1)… was based on the belief that poverty bred communism, this policy gave large amounts of money to rebuild Europe after WWII.

1) Marshall Plan

because 1)…  (country) was not a member, the League of Nations was ultimately ineffective. In 1945 it was replaced with the much more effective organization called 2)…

1) the United States 2) the United Nations.

During the 1)…  president, 2)… , sent tanks to break up groups of students who were protesting government corruption.

1) Tiananmen Square Massacre 2) Deng Xiaoping

The strike of the employees of the 1)… in Colombia that was forcibly put down and led to thousands of deaths was known as the 2)…

1) United Fruit Company 2) Banana Massacre.

The 1)… Sisters worked to create a spy organization that would help take down 2)… (dictator)  in 3)… (country). 

1) Mirabal 2) Trujillo 3) The Dominican Republic

1. At the end of the 1)… War, both sides found themselves at a stalemate, so they decided to just go back to where they started, divided at the 2)...

1) Korean 2) 38th Parallel

1. During the 1)… Massacre,  2)… troops horribly massacred innocent Vietnamese families.

1) Mai Ly 2) American

1. When the 1)… invaded Laos, they hoped to gain the territories of 2)… and the 3)….

1) Viet Minh 2) Vientiane 3) Plain of Jars

The Royal Laotian Army, the Americans, and the Hmong people set up a secret city at 1)...

1) Long Tieng

1. During the 1)…., America waited as their southern island neighbor decided if they were going to continue stockpiling Soviet weapons, or return them to the USSR.

1) Cuban Missile Crisis

Tearing down the 1)… l is considered the symbolic end to the Cold War.

1) Berlin Wall

During the 1)…, the British executed more people than any other time in British history

1) Mau Mau Uprising

The war for independence in 1)… caused the fall of the 2)… in France.

1) Algeria 2) Fifth Republic

During the 1)… in Madagascar, the 2)…. used fear to control the people. One of their methods was to throw protesters out of airplanes, known as “death flights.”

1) Malagasy Uprising 2) French