Rabinowitz Review

Warsaw Pact

Warsaw Pact

Defense treaty with the Soviet Union, Poland, and the Eastern bloc. Nations aligned with the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Commies.

North Korea

Communist Part of Korea.

Kim Il Sung

First NK Leader

De-Stalinization

USSR distances from Stalin’s policies and culture. E.g., removal of books and statues.

Nikita Khrushchev

Politician who supported de-Stalinization. Soviet leader who takes over after Stalin.

Peoples Republic of China

China under Mao. Communist.

Détente

Relaxation of strained relations, i.e., the end of the cold war

Strategic Arms Limitations Talk

SALT. Between the USSR and USA. Reducing the amount of ICMBs and limiting nuclear capabilities.

Soviet Union/Afghanistan

want to push communism; lose.

Muhammad Najibullah

Afghan leader

Mikhail Gorbachev

last USSR leader. Glasnsot

Solidarity

Nationalist movement in Poland to get rid of communism and put in Polish ideas. Lech Wałęsa

Velvet Revolution

Demonstrations against the USSR in Czechoslovakia. Smooth and easy transition away from communism. 1989

Perestroika

Restructuring of the government within the USSR. New economic system.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Indian Muslim leader who advocates for partitioning of India

Bandung Conference

Asian and African countries meet in Indonesia, for a third non-aligned path.

Ho chi Minh

Communist North Vietnam Leader

United Nations

Organization that facilitates peacemaking between countries.

Palestine and Israel

Dispute on land because of religion

Gamal Abdel Nasser

President of Egypt: Land Reforms & Suez Canal Crisis. Leader of the Arab World.

“The year of Africa” 1960

Lots of African countries gain independence. Broke away from their colonial ruler and created their own nations.

Jomo Kenyatta

President of Kenya

Great Leap Forward

failed plan to improve agriculture and industry

Deng Xiaoping

Successor of Mao, chairman of the CCP -> more west ideas

Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

Shah/King of Iran. In bed with USA and petrol companies

Juan Peron

Military leader of Argentina, Nationalist. President twice.

Somoza Family

Nicaragua leaders, friends with USA, Sandinistas challenge their authority.

Apartheid

South Africa Jim Crow Laws

Nelson Mandela

civil rights advocate and president of south Africa. First black president

GATT

Precursor to the WTO

OPEC

Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries

Sara

Eastern barbie. Doll to go against Americanization

Americanization

spreading American ideas/companies throughout the world

Kyoto

Japan’s capital until 1868, fight global warming and greenhouse effects.

HIV/AIDS Africa

Became a huge epidemic

One Child Policy

China limited the # of children a family can have

WTO

World Trade Organization

Osama Bin Laden

Anti-American terrorist supporting Al Qaeda

Contras

Freedom-fighters led by the Samoza family to stop the Marxist regime in Nicaragua (under the Sandistas)

Four modernizations

Deng’s attempt at modernization. In China: Agriculture, Education, Science, Defense