Unit 8 AP world 1900-Modern

cold war, declonoization

cold war

A state of hosility that exists between two states charectrized by an ideological struggle rather than open warefare. It was an ideological struggle that took place over 40 years in the 20th ceuntry between united states and the soviet union after ww2

Economic U.S Advantages

Provided Finical aid plans such as the Marshall Plan to help pay for the rebuiliding of the western european states

used post war prosperity to fund rebuilding of western european nations

Balance of world power shifted to the US

Technological US advancements

Developed Atomic bomb most advance and devastating technology of the war

Soviet union Advantages

Command economy (Sourced natrual resources from their enormous territory)

Large population (citizens worked towards economic recovery)

NATO

The US and several states in Western Europe joined together in a mutual military service

Warsaw Pact

Soviet Union formed military alliance w/ satellite states in east and Central Europe

Proxy Wars

a conflict where two major powers avoid fighting each other directly, instead supporting opposing sides (proxies) in a smaller, local conflict

Korean War

North of Korea was communist while South of Korea was anti communist

North invaded south in 1950

South was backed up By America while north was backed up by Soviets

Ended in Korea being divided along the 38th parallel

Contra War

Socalists Sandinistas backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union fought a war with the anti communist contras

Angolan Civil War

Soviet Union backed the communist groups vying for power while the US and its allies backed the anti communists

Communism spread

Communism spread to china

Socialism

Socialism is an economic and political system where the community or the state owns and manages key industries, resources, and property, rather than private individuals.C

Communism

Communism is a a political and economic ideology aiming for a classless, stateless society where all property, land, and factories are owned publicly rather than by individuals

Mao Zedong

wanted to show the world that his brand of communism was working fine

refused forgiven aid during the famine

continued exporting grain that couldve saved millions of peoples lives

Spread of Communism/socialism

Egypt

Socialist policies to redistribute land and resources under the leader ship of Gamal Abdel Nasser

Vietnam

Communists began a program of land distribution to combat a few wealthy landowners holding nearly all of vietnams agricultural land

Cuba

Fidel Castro led a revoultion in Cuba that established it as a communist state

launched a program of land distribution and raising wages

transferred 15% of Cubas wealth to the poor

End of Cold War

Cold War ended because of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991

Zionism

A jewish nationalistic ideology that advocated for Jews to have a state of their own

Green Revolution

A movement that involved biologically engineered seeds and fertilizers that led to increased agricultural yields and made India agriculturally self sufficient

Non violent resistance

Mohandas Gandhi

homespun movement

Salt march

civil disobedience

MLK

civil rights movement

Montgomery bus boycott

Intensifying violence

Augusto Pinochet

led a military coup

overthrew the elected president

military conducted rads, executions, and touture

Al queda

founded and led by osama bin Laden

militant islamic groups

caused 9/11