Global 10

Truman Doctrine

A policy of the Truman presidency that called for supporting any nation resisting communism. $400 million sent to Greece and Turkey, Containment-foreign policy

United Nations

An international body composed of many counties that seek to promote peace, prosperity, and cooperation around the world. It was formed in 1945 at the end of WWII

Von Bismarck, Otto

Appointed Prussian chancellor in 1862. He began a program of war to unify all the German states under the control of Prussia. His policy was known as Blut und Eisen or Blood and Iron. He was the most powerful statesman in Europe as chancellor of the new German Empire from 1871 to 1890. He was known as the Iron Chancellor

Warsaw Pact

An international defense alliance between the Soviet Union and many of its Eastern European satellite states as a response to NATO. Formed in 1955

Wealth of Nations

British philosopher and writer Adam Smith’s 1776 book that described his theory on free trade, otherwise known as laissez-faire economics. (Gov should stay out of business) Supply demand = invisible hand

The White Man’s Burden

A poem by Rudyard Kipling written in 1899. IT is also the name given to the idea that the culture of the native populations where European imperialism was occurring were inferior to western nations. Some interpreted Kipling’s poem to mean that it was the duty of imperializing nations to bring western culture and sensibility to the savage native populations that were encountered in far off lands

Yalta Conference

Conference held in February of 1945 to plan strategy for when the war was over. Key decisions are made about the future of Germany and other events. Divide Germany, punish Germany, punish Nazis, creates the United Nations, and promise by all to return the conquered lands

Yom Kippur War

(1973) War between Israel and Egypt and Syria in which Israel defeated the two capturing lands from each. Known as occupied territories, war leads directly to the oil embargo of Western nations by OPEC… highly successful use of oil as an economic weapon

Zionism

Jewish nationalist movement to establish a homeland in Palestine. This movement began in the late 1800’s, as anti-Semitic feelings intensified in Europe. The main leader of this movement was a journalist by the name of Theodore Herzl. Herzl’s dream of a homeland for the Jewish peoples was realized in 1948 with the creation of Israel by the UN