20th century places and terms
Terms
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- apartness. A legal system of segregation adopted in S.Africa in 1948 which divided the people into white, black, asian, mixed and controlled their rights and liberties
- apartheid
- Granting concessions to one in order to maintain peace and stability.
- appeasement
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Cold war competition between the U.S.
arms race
- Government ruled by one person or group with unlimited authority
- authoritarianism
- Montenegro, Bulgaria
- Balkans
- Soviets refused to unify the 4th zone of Berlin. Tried to isolate western controlled Berlin
- Berlin airlift
- A concrete wall topped with barbed wire built by Khurushchev in 1961, to stop people fleeing from Communist E.Germany to the West. Wall demolished in 1989
- Berlin Wall
- big four of 1919
- Wilson, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and Orlando
- sudden massive attack by Germany Blitzkrieg
majority
Followers of Vladimir I. Lenin who overthrew the czarist regime and established a new Bolsheviks- 1900 Chinese rebellion using Chinese martial arts against foreigners and missionaries. Put down by British, Boxer Rebellion
- Policy adopted by Communist block to counter anti-socialist forces: No Soviet satellite state will be allowed to separate from the Eastern block
- Brezhnev Doctrine
- President Eisenhower maintained the U.S. Brinkmanship
- Neighbor of N.Vietnam, invaded by U.S under Nixon and Kissinger to clear North Vietnam
- Cambodia
- Causes of WWI
*Militarism
*Alliances
*Imperialism
Causes of WWII
Failure of WWI peace treaty(peace not just causing anger and resentment
identify the CIA and KGB
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti A demand for social, political and economic equality for colored people in the U.S.
- civil rights movement
- Foreign policy of Truman administration to take measures to prevent any extension of communist rule to other countries
- collectivization
- The culture of the young people who rejected mainstream American society in the 1960s seeking an alternate society based on peace, love and individual freedom.
- hippies
- Foreign policy under Eisenhower that dictates that if one nation falls under communist control then neighboring nations will also fall under the control
- Domino Theory
relaxation
Flexible policy by Nixon and Kissinger to negotiate and ease tensions when dealing with communist nations- Détente
- located in Northwestern Vietnam Dien Bien Phu
- a 1957 US commitment to d
- Eisenhower Doctrine
- rebellion against French authority from 1946-1954 led by Ho Chi Minh of the Viet Minh. France
- First Indochina War
- A nation-wide, centralized plan for economic development of USSR Five year plans