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| The root cause of the end of colonialism | The racist ideas of Social Darwinism were no longer accepted. |
| Mohandas Gandhi preached this. | non-violence |
| Mohandas Gandhi used this tactic to make change | civil disobedience |
| Civil disobedience means to do this | disobey unjust laws |
| This was when British troops opened fire on a peaceful gathering of unarmed Indians | Amritsar Massacre |
| What did Gandhi want to change in India? | Britain's democratic government was denying democracy to Indians. |
| Who was influenced by Gandhi's philosophies? | Martin Luther King Jr. |
| Leader who led a communist revoltion in China, 1949 | Mao Zedong |
| The losers in China's communist revolution fled here: | Taiwan |
| What mistake did Chairman Mao make? | His government mismanaged collective farms - 30-50 million peasants starved. |
| How China changed after Mao's death in 1976 | Leaders opened the economy to capitalist, free-market style competition. |
| What the USSR did that frightened the West after WWII. | The Soviet Union took control of eight Eastern European countries as a protective barrier against invasion. |
| Definition of "Cold War" | No shots are fired between enemies. |
| This was a program to sent billions of dollars to Western European countries to strengthen them against communism. | The Marshall Plan |
| How long the Cold War was | 45 years |
| The Cold War was between these two countries | USA and Soviet Union (USSR) |
| Why Germany and Berlin were divided into free and communist sides | After WWI, the territory was split between the Allies who were capitalist and democratic and the Soviet Union which was communist. |
| The purpose of the Berlin airlift: | To fly supplies to West Berlin while the Soviets were blockading it. |
| How often and how long the Berlin airlift lasted: | A plane every few minutes for one year. |
| This was established after the Berlin airlift succeeded | The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
| What divided east and west Berlin | The Berlin Wall |
| Which side was communist in Berlin and Germany? | The east side |
| When the Berlin Wall was built | 1961 |
| What is the "domino theory?" | The theory that if a nation falls to communism, others would fall quickly after it. |
| Policy to stop the further spread of communism | containment |
| Of North and South Korea, the side that was communist: | North Korea |
| Why the Korean War happened | North Korea invaded South Korea, trying to turn it communist. |
| The Korean War was the first test of this new organization | The United Nations |
| After three years of fighting, the Korean War ended with: | Armistice (cease fire) and both sides being right where they were. |
| Countries that backed North Korea | Russia and China |
| Why the United Nations was able to pass a resolution to send troops to stop the North Koreans from invading South Korea: | Russia was absent during the vote. |
| Before WWII, Vietnam was a colony of this country. | France |
| The United States set up an anti-communist government here. | South Vietnam |
| When and why the US entered the Vietnam War. | 1965 - the US-backed government in S. Vietnam looked like it was going to fall to the communists. |
| Our President during Vietnam War's beginning. | Lyndon Johnson |
| Type of fighting in Vietnam. | Guerilla warfare - the enemy used the jungle and a tunnel network |
| The supporting of countries opposed to an enemy instead of fighting them directly. | proxy war |
| The Soviets had their own "Vietnam" experience here. | Afghanistan. |
| The US helped these fighters in Afghanistan with weapons such as shoulder-fired missiles. | Muslims, including Osama bin Laden |
| In 1952, the US did this. | Detonated the first hydrogen bomb. |
| How powerful the hydrogen bom was compared to the one dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. | 1000 times more powerful. |
| ICBM stands for this | Intercontinental Ballistic Missile |
| The term for the buildup of nuclear weapons during the Cold War between the US and Soviet Union. | The nuclear arms race |
| Place close to the US where the Soviets placed missiles. | Cuba |
| Place near the Soviet border where the US placed missiles. | Turkey |
| This happened in 1962, and was a stand-off between the US over missiles placed close to the US. | The Cuban Missile Crisis |
| The Cuban Missile Crisi ended with this. | Both the US and Soviet Union agreed to remove their missiles from Turkey and Cuba. |
| The Space Race began with this being put into orbit in 1957 | Sputnik |
| In 1961, the Soviets did this. | Put the first man into space. |
| In 1969, the US achieved this. | Put the first man on the moon. |
| How Modern Art, in the middle of the 20th Century, was different. | It was abstract, and made no attempt to portray the real world. |
| He became leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Four changes Mikhail Gorbachev made to the Soviet Union | A more open, democratic government, and more capitalism in the economy, reduction of nuclear weapons, and giving up control of the Eastern Bloc. |
| Something that helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union. | The nuclear arms race made them spend too much money on defense. |
