Cold War and Decolonization Flashcards

Flashcards reviewing key events, people, and concepts related to the Cold War and decolonization, in a fill-in-the-blank format.

Iron Curtain

The __ was the ideological division between the communist East and the democratic and capitalist West in Europe.

Berlin Wall

The __ was the physical division of East and West Berlin from 1961 until 1989.

Marshall Plan

The __ was the U.S. strategy to rehabilitate Western Europe after WWII.

Truman Doctrine

The __ was the U.S. President’s strategy to keep Greece and Turkey from falling to communism.

NATO, Warsaw Pact

The two Cold War alliances were the democratic nations in and the communist nations in .

Sputnik

In 1957, the Soviets launched the first satellite, __.

Neil Armstrong

In 1969, the Americans put the first man on the moon, __.

Fidel Castro

In 1959, __ replaced Fulgencio Batista, and thereafter the U.S. had a communist neighbor.

Cuban Missile Crisis

In October 1962, the world was on the verge of WWIII during the __.

Great Leap Forward

In the Chinese __ in 1958, Mao ordered a radical redistribution of land and organization into communes.

Vietnam War

From 1955 until 1975, the communist North fought the capitalist South in the __ for total control.

Henry Kissinger

In 1973, U.S. Secretary of State __ negotiated the Paris Peace Accords, which brought an armistice in Vietnam.

Cambodia, Pol Pot

Like Vietnam, was colonized by the French led by dictator .

Gamal Abdel Nasser

__ led Egypt (1956-70) through decolonization.

Jimmy Carter, Menachem Begin, Anwar El Sadat

In 1978, U.S. President mediated the Camp David Accords between Israeli Prime Minister and Egyptian President __.

Ayatollah, Shah

In the 1979 Iranian Revolution, the Khomeini and the Islamic fundamentalists deposed the .

partition

The 1947 __ resulted in creation of modern India and Pakistan.

Gandhi

__ opposed discrimination against women and untouchables and was then assassinated January 30, 1948.

Nelson Mandela

Apartheid involved the segregation, racial discrimination, and oppression of the black majority of South African people by the white minority, and ___ became the first black President of South Africa in 1994.

Pelé

Black Brazilian soccer champion _ was an inspiration to rich and poor during the decolonization of Africa.

Ghana

_ was the first and strongest nation-state among the former British colonies in Africa.

Algeria

The French did not want to let go of __ because it was a settler colony.

Non-Aligned

During the Cold War, the __ Movement included India, Indonesia, Egypt, Ghana, and Yugoslavia.

Leonid Brezhnev

After the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, __ replaced Nikita Khrushchev, and the result was Détente.

Tear down this wall

In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan said, “Mr. Gorbachev, __!”

Mikhail Gorbachev

Soviet Premier __ tried to resolve widespread problems with glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring).

Norman Borlaug

American __ is known as the father of the Green Revolution for developing a strong strain of wheat.

Edward Jenner

Englishman _ developed the smallpox vaccine in the mid-18th century.

Rachel Carson

American __’s Silent Spring (1962) was an exposé on the harmful effects of DDT.

Deforestation

__ and desertification have been concerns throughout history.

Reaganomics

In the 1980s, inspired by Milton Friedman, U.S. President Ronald Reagan in __ supported lower taxes and less regulation.

Bangladesh, Vietnam, and Honduras

Developing nations, like __ have created many consumer goods without the same workers’ rights that exist in developed nations.

Tiananmen Square

During the Cultural Revolution in China, democratic and capitalist protestors were violently suppressed at __ in 1989.

Muhammad Yunus

__ won the Nobel Peace Prize after raising awareness to workplace hazards after the 2013 Rana Plaza disaster.

Malala Yousufzai

In 2012, __ was shot by the Taliban in Pakistan for going to school.

Osama Bin Laden

__ and Al Qaeda were responsible for the September 11th, 2001 hijackings.

U.S.

In entertainment and consumer goods, the __ reigns supreme.