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What is Tiananmen Square?
A place of demonstration within the capital of Beijing. Home to pro-American governmental protests. Most were massacred.
What was the relationship between World War 2 and Communism?
World War 2 assisted in the spread of Communism.
What are some significant scenes or examples of genocide in the 20th Century?
Armenia, Bosnia, Rwanda, Cambodia, Tibet, China, and most importantly, the Holocaust.
Who was Ghandi? What were his motives and methods?
An Indian independence figure who exclusively used nonviolent methods to get India independent from Britain. His methods were successful.
What was the major World War 1 epidemic?
The Spanish Influenza epidemic. Costed hundreds of thousands, even millions of lives. Called Spanish Flu because they were the first to report on it.
What is the definition of Appeasement?
Letting people do whatever, as long as they did not interfere with or protest against the government.
How did the partition of India affect its population?
India was divided into Pakistan (East and West) and India due to religious differences. Pakistan East wasn’t into West, and became Bangladesh.
What is the central idea of the Marshall Plan?
The United States after World War 2 decided to provide economic and developmental assistance to European countries, if and only if they did not become Communists.
Who had major economic competition to the West?
China, India, Russia, etc.
How did the World Wars affect the status of women?
Gave them status within the workforce, battlefield, and other professional settings. Mainly good but some criticism was still relevant.
Who were the main 2 Latin American antagonists to the U.S.A?
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara.
Who were some of the most significant Soviet leaders?
Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, and Gorbachev.
What was the central idea behind International Migration?
Moving from less developed areas to more developed areas, typically in the West.
What were some of the main struggles arising in the developed world?
Food, water, and resources were sparse, causing conflict over who gets who.
How did the Cold War set up the collapse of Colonialism?
It hasted it by weakening countries, causing uprisings from within.
What is the definition of the Mandate System?
The European division of the Middle East, causing irreversible cultural and economic damage.
What was the central idea of the Treaty of Versailles?
World War 1 would conclude. Germany ended up paying for war debts, plus cleaning up after itself.
What is the “Palestinian Situation?”
Palestine, a sliver of the Middle East, has territorial disputes over whether it should split or not. Still has issues today.
What became of Post-World War 2 Empires?
Most collapsed and died dramatically. Colonialism ended all together anyways.
What was the central idea behind the Truman Doctrine?
President Truman feared that a domino effect of Communism would break out, so he wished to provide assistance to anyone under threat of it.
What were the alliances built during the events of the Cold War? Who was in them?
NATO: Team U.S.A, plus Canada, France, Italy, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the U.K.
Warsaw Pact: Team Soviets, plus Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
What were some differences between victims of the World Wars?
Most early wars had more militaristic deaths, but as they went on, more civilians started to be targeted.
What was the basis for Nazi popularity?
The Nazis promised to help the economy and military, a tactic that made more people desperate and supportive.
What were some effects of Germany’s unification?
They broke the balance of power by being too strong when combined. Made other superpowers anxious.
Explain the differences between the terms Global South VS. Global North?
The Global North depicted more developed and wealthy countries, whereas the Global South term was mainly used to identify Third World or less developed countries.
What is the definition of suffrage?
Voting rights, specifically in political affairs.
What were some differences between Socialism vs Communism ideals?
Socialism: The overthrow of Capitalism and acceptance of community-operated business practices.
Communism: Similar to Socialism, but involves equal property, equal business, equal pay. The government controls almost everything, including payment and jobs.
What is the definition of Pan-Africanism?
A series of movements that focus on unifying Africa under an anti-colonial basis and eliminating any white supremacy within it.
List the definitions of Perestroika, Glasnost, and Comintern.
Perestroika: Soviet movement of economic and political reform.
Glasnost: Soviet movement of promoting an open consultative government, and freedom of information.
Comintern: Communist International, an organization dedicated to containing the political system in Russia. Focused on Russia first than spreading it all over.
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