| A | B |
|---|
| Mao Zedong | leader of Communist Revolution in China |
| Mao's Plan-The Great Leap Forward | An attempt to increase farm and factory output in China with communes, it failed |
| Why did China turn communist? | Mao gained the support of the peasants |
| Red Guards | Chinese youth who attacked people opposed to Mao |
| Cultural Revolution | Promote Chinese loyalty to communism, peasants take power from intellectuals |
| communes in Communist China | groups of people farming together, hold property together |
| Deng Xiaoping | Chinese leader after Mao died, economic change, politics the same- no freedom |
| Deng Xiaoping's Plan | Modernize China, get rid of communes, allow foreign investment |
| Tiananmen Square | Protesters in China demanded more rights, they were crushed |
| OPEC | Oil producing nations join together to control (regulate) oil prices |
| Why Middle East important? | OIL- Natural resources, strategic location |
| Why Conflicts in Ireland, India, Israel? | Religious and Ethnic diversity causes the conflict |
| Jomo Kenyatta | A nationalist who fought for a Kenya free from British control |
| Apartheid | Society controlled by white minority, separated the races in South Africa |
| Examples of Apartheid | No interracial marriage, separate living zones, carry a passbook, separate facilities |
| Nelson Mandela | ANC leader who fought apartheid, jailed for 27 yrs |
| Pol Pot | Leader of Khmer Rouge, Cambodian communist guerrillas, took over, "Killing Fields"-1 million dead |
| Zionist movement | push to create a Jewish state (Israel) |
| Yasir Arafat | Palestinian Leader, against Israel, wanted own Palestinian nation |
| PLO | militant organization fighting Israelis for a homeland |
| Arab-Israeli Wars | Fought over land in the Middle East |
| Camp David Accords | Agreement to end war between Egypt and Israel |
| Islamic fundamentalism | oppose westernization, supports Islamic principles |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | Soviet Union leader who wanted to end Cold War, established reforms |
| Perestroika | A Gorbachev reform- economic changes-free market |
| Glasnost | political changes- free speech, free press, openness, a hint of democracy |
| Kim Jong Il, Fidel Castro | North Korean Communist dictator, Cuban Communist dictator followed Marxism |
| Problem in Rwanda, Balkans, Indonesia | Ethnic/religious conflicts led to violence |
| Rwanda conflict | Hutus and Tutsi tribes fought- 500,000 killed in genocide, 1994 |
| Balkan conflict | Serbians killed other ethnic groups in Yugoslavia, 1992 |
| Saddam Hussein | Leader of Iraq, started Persian Gulf War, then US attacked again in 2003 and captured him due to WMDs |
| Al Qaeda | Terrorist group responsible for 9/11 |
| Taliban | Afghanistan govt-extreme Islamic rule, supported use of terrorism, removed from power |
| Darfur, Sudan | The site of a civil war that has killed a lot |
| NAFTA | encourage economic development with free trade |
