History 11 Final

What country is this? Accord signed with this country during the Cold War?

What country is this? Accord signed with this country during the Cold War?

1949- Sino-Soviet Alliance

• Allience btw China & Soviet U → shift Cold War focus from Europe to Asia

1971- Ping Pong Policy

• A diplomatic initiative between the United States and China in the early 1970s that involved the exchange of table tennis players between the two countries, leading to improved relations.

What country is this? What are some events that happened here?

Tet Offesive

• turning point of the Vietnam War

• durign the lunar year

• S. Vietnam & USA lost

Vietnamization

• gradual withdraw of US troops

What is the name of this city?

Dien Bien Phu

• last french outpost in N. Vietnam

What is the name of this Trail?

Ho Chi Minh Trail

• where supplies were passed from N. Vietnam to the Vietcong in S. Vietnam

• went through Cambodia and Laos

Name of coutry

Laos

Name the country. Event that happened here

Cambodia

• USA $ S. Vietnam INVADE of Cambidia

• trying to suppress communism

• result→ Cambodia civil war

Name the Country

Philippines

What is this country? What happened here under President Truman term?

Japan

• USA bombed Hiroshima & Nagasaki

What is the name of these countries? What happened here?

North Korea & South Korea

• Korean War

  • START: N. Korea attacks S. Korea

  • UN was conflicted on whether or not they should intervene…. in end decide to launch surprise attack with USA & UK at Incheon

  • USA General MacArthur called fro an extension of the war into China → got fired

  • END: War ends in a stalemate & no peace treaties signed

Name the state. What events occurred here?

California

• Watts Riots

  • worst & most violent urban riots

  • predominantly in Black neighborhood

  • Fighting for Civil Rights, housing changes, and poverty increase in cities & against the Vietnam war &

Name the state. What events occurred here?

New York

• After the Stonewall Riots there were a lot of demonstrations in NY promoting Gay Rights

Name the state. What events occurred here?

Kansas

Brown v Board of Education

• charged the board of education of Topeka, Kansas, with violating Linda’s rights by denying her admission to an  elementary school four blocks from her house.

• The second Brown ruling ordered school desegregation implemented “with all deliberate speed.” Initially President Eisenhower refused to enforce compliance.

Name the state. What events occurred here?

Arkansa

• Little Rock 9

  • nine African-American students who had volunteered to desegregate Little Rock’s Central High School.

  • The Governor refused to let the schools integrate → Eisenhower placed National Guard to protect the students

Name the state. What events occurred here?

Mississippi

• Freedom Summer

  • CORE and SNCC workers in the South began registering as many African Americans as they could to vote, to influence Congress to pass a voting rights ac

Name the state. What events occurred here?

Alabama

• Montgomery Bus Boycott

  • started by Rosa Parks

  • Black people refused to ride buses

  • result→  the Supreme Court outlawed bus segregation

• Children’s March/Birmingham protest

  • After Dr King’s arrest, African American radios began sending secret messages to black children and urging them to march on ‘D Day’.

  • more than a thousand African-American children marched in Birmingham (the most segregated city in America). Police commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor’s men arrested 959 of the

  • a lot of exposure in TV

• Selma Campaign

  • after a demonstrator named Jimmy Lee Jackson was shot and killed, King responded by announcing a 50-mile protest march from Selma to Montgomery

  • marchers faced a lot of police brutality

Name the state. What events occurred here?

Tennesse

• Assassination of Dr. Martin Luthor King

  • King was assassinated by James Earl Ray.

  • SPARKED RIOTS

Name the state. What events occurred here?

North Carolina

• Sit ins

  • College staged a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter and would not leave until they were served

• Freedom riders

  • started here

  • would travel across country by bus trying to desegregate interstate buses

name the country. what event happened here?

USSR, E Germany, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Poland

Satellite Nations

• Stalin installed communist governments here

• By dominating this region, the Soviet Union was attempting to stop further invasions from the West and keep their power in Eastern Europe.

name the country. what event happened here?

USSR

• Salt I signed with USA

  • agreed to a limited number of ballistic missiles, as well as a limited number of missile deployment sites. Additionally, the two countries agreed to a principle of non-interference and respect for national sovereignty.

name the country. what event happened here?

Austria

SALT II

• signed btw USA & USSR

• goal: limited the total of both nations' nuclear forces to 2,250 delivery vehicles and placed a variety of other restrictions on deployed strategic nuclear forces

• HOWEVER treaty was never passed because USSR invaded Afghansitan

name the country. what event happened here?

Switzerland

• Geneva Summit - btw Reagan & Gorbachev

• GOAL: bring the nuclear arms race under control.

name the country. what event happened here?

Hungary

• Hungarian Revolt of 1956:

  • Hungarian people rose in revolt in 1956, calling for a democratic government

  • Imre Nagy, the most popular and liberal Hungarian Communist leader, formed a new government. He promised free elections, denounced the Warsaw Pact, and demanded that all Soviet troops leave Hungary

  • In response, Soviet U attack Hungary & overthrew gov.

  • USA did not help Hungary fight Soviets

name the country. what event happened here?

Finland

• Helsinki Accords

  • 35 nations signed, which including the USSR

  • series of agreements that promised greater cooperation between the nations of Eastern and Western Europe.

name the city. what event happened here?

Berlin

• Berlin Blockade

  • Stalin closed all highway and rail routes into West Berlin

  • As a result, no food or fuel could reach that part of the city.

  • → Berlin airlift

• Berlin Airlfit

  • American and British officials started the Berlin airlift to fly food and supplies into West Berlin

  • boosted American prestige around the world.

  • beat Souviet U

• Berlin Wall

  • East German troops began to unload concrete posts and rolls of barbed wire along the border. Within days, the Berlin Wall, a concrete wall topped with barbed wire that severed the city in two

name the country were the Warsaw Pact was signed and some countries that were part of it

• singed in Poland

• A collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union immediately after West Germany was permitted to rearm and joined the Alliance and NATO

• Soviet Union, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and Albania were part of it

What are some countries that were part of NATO

• made as a result of the Berlin Blockade

• NATO focused on collective defense and the protection of its members from potential threats emanating from the Soviet Union

• countries that were part of it: USA, Portugal, France, UK, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Greece, Turkey…