Unit 5 & 7 History quiz

Communism

Economic system based on collective ownership of property

Containment Policy

U.S. strategy to prevent the spread of communism

Warsaw Pact

Soviet lead military- alliance in eastern Europe

Berlin Wall

Barrier that divided East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

Mao Zedong

Founder of Communist China

The Long March

Mao’s strategic retreat that strengthened communist support

Deng Xiaoping

Chinese leader who introduced market-oriented reforms.

Four modernizations

Chinese performs to modernized agriculture, industry, defense, and science.

Cultural Revolution

Mao’s campaign to eliminate perceived enemies in China.

The Salt March

Gandhi’s protest against the British salt tax.

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

Failed U.S. backed attempt to overthrow Castro in Cuba.

Korean War

Conflict that divided Korea into North and South.

Vietnam War

Cold War conflict between communist North and non-communist, South Vietnam.

Iron Curtain

Symbolic division between communist and democratic Europe.

The Non-aligned Movement

A group of nations that avoided joining either Cold War bloc.

Nikita Khrushchev

Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Mahatma Gandhi

Indian leader known for nonviolent resistance.

The Cuban Missile Crisis

1962 confrontation that brought the U.S. and the USSR closer to nuclear war.

NATO

Military alliance led by the United States during the Cold War.

The Great Leap Forward

Mao’s campaign to rapidly industrialize China.

Civil disobedience

Non-violent opposition to laws or authority.

Apartheid

South African system of racial segregation.

Ronald Reagan

U.S. president who challenged Soviet influence in the 1980s.

Capitalism

Economic system based on private ownership and free markets.

Perestroika

Soviet policy of economic restructuring.

Glasnost

Soviet policy promoting openness and transparency.

Taiwan

Island governed by Chinese nationalist after 1949.

Berlin Airlift

Western effort to supply West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.

KMT

Chinese nationalist party led by Chiang Kai-shek.

Nuclear Arms Race

Competition to build more powerful nuclear weapons.

Nelson Mandela

South African leader imprisoned for opposing apartheid.

Chiang Kai-shek

Nationalist Chinese leader, who fled to Taiwan.

Tiananmen square

Site of the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Beijing.

African National Congress

South African organization that fought apartheid.

Cold War

Period of tension between the US and USSR after World War II.

USSR

Communist superpower that existed from 1992 to 1991.

Margaret Thatcher

British Prime Minister nicknamed “the Iron Lady”

Mikhail Gorbachev

Last leader of the Soviet Union.