unit 8 AP world vocab

Tehran Conference

First major meeting between the Big Three (United States, Britain, Russia) at which they planned the 1944 assault on France and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation after the war

Yalta Conference

1945 Meeting with US president FDR, British Prime Minister(PM) Winston Churchill, and and Soviet Leader Stalin during WWII to plan for post

Potsdam Conference

July 26, 1945

Self determination

Concept that ethnicities have the right to govern themselves

Iron Curtain

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Satellite Countries

Countries bordering USSR that Soviets made Communist to have "friendly ring of countries"

World Revolution

a belief that organized workers would overthrow capitalism in all countries

Containment

American policy of resisting further expansion of communism around the world

Mutual Assured Destruction

idea that both sides would face certain destruction in a nuclear war

Marshall Plan

A United States program of economic aid for the reconstruction of Europe (1948

Proxy War

A war instigated by a major power that does not itself participate

Domino Theory

A theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

NATO

an alliance made to defend one another if they were attacked by any other country; US, England, France, Canada, Western European countries

Communist Bloc

The group of Eastern European nations that fell under the control of the Soviet Union following World War II.

SEATO

Alliance formed to oppose Communism in Southeast Asia

CENTO

known as the Baghdad Pact, a Cold War

Contra War

various U.S.

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

(JFK) 1963, Soviets & US agree to prohibit all above

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

An international treaty, signed in 1968, that aims to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.

commune

a body of people or families living together and sharing everything

Theocracy

A government controlled by religious leaders

Great Leap Forward

Started by Mao Zedong, combined collective farms into People's Communes, failed because there was no incentive to work harder, ended after 2 years.

Cultural Revolution

Campaign in China ordered by Mao Zedong to purge the Communist Party of his opponents and instill revolutionary values in the younger generation.

White Revolution

The term used by the shah to describe reforms in Iran between the end of World War II and the downfall of his regime in 1979

one-party state

a political system in which one party controls the government and actively seeks to prevent other parties from contesting for power

Muslim League

an organization formed in 1906 to protect the interests of India's Muslims, which later proposed that India be divided into separate Muslim and Hindu nations

Organization of African Unity

An establishment founded after the Pan

Palestinian Liberation Organization

political party and organization that fought for Palestinian rights

Hamas

a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon

Detente

A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon.

Perestroika

A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society

Glastnost

Program leading to increased freedom of expression under Mikhail Gorbachev.

Metropole

the dominant part of an empire, distinguished from the subordinate colonies, which is normally the state that initiated colonization