Quizlet

Standards:

Analyze and evaluate international developments following World War II, the cold war and post-cold war, to include:

b. creation of the state of Israel and resulting conflicts in the middle east;

c. rebuilding of western Europe (e.g., Marshall Plan, NATO);

d. Soviet control of eastern Europe (e.g., Warsaw pact, Hungarian revolt);

e. creation and role of the united nations;

f. Mao Zedong and the Chinese revolution (e.g., long march, Taiwan, cultural revolution);

g. national security in the changing world order;

h. technology’s role in ending the cold war;

i. fluidity of political alliances;

j. new threats to peace;

k. reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the cold war;

10. Evaluate the ideologies and outcomes of independence movements in the emerging third world to include:

a. French Indochina and the Vietnam war (e.g., the role of Ho Chi Minh);

b. Mohandas Gandhi’s non-violence movement for India’s independence;

c. apartheid in South Africa and evolution from white minority government (e.g., Nelson Mandela, Desmond Tutu);

d. middle east conflicts (Israel, Palestine, Egypt);

Previewing Main Ideas

Economics

Two conflicting economic systems, capitalism and communism, competed for influence and power after World War II. The superpowers in the struggle were the United States and the Soviet Union.

Revolution

In Asia, the Americas, and Eastern Europe, people revolted against repressive governments or rule by foreign powers. These revolutions often became the areas of conflict between the two superpowers.

Empire Building

United States and the Soviet Union used military, economic, and humanitarian aid to expand their control over other countries. Each also try to prevent the other superpowers from gaining influence.

Revolution

Independence Movement swept through Africa and Asia as World War II ended. Through both nonviolent and violent means, revolutionaries overthrew existing political systems create their own nations.

Power and Authority

Systems of government shifted for 1 billion people when colonies in Africa and Asia gain their freedom. New nation struggle to unify their diverse populations. In many cases, authoritarian rule and military dictatorships emerged.

Economics

The emergence of new nations from European and U.S. ruled colonies brought a change in ownership of vital resources. In many cases, however new nation struggle to create thriving economies.

Chapter Objective

WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading

Analyze the conflicts between competing economic systems and the restructuring of alliances from 1945 to the present.

SECTION 1 Cold War: Superpowers Face Off

Analyze the global competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.

SECTION 2 Communists Take Power in China

Explain how the Communists took control of China.

SECTION 3 Wars in Korea and Vietnam

Describe the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

SECTION 4 The Cold War Divides the World

Describe how the Cold War affected nations.

SECTION 5 The Cold War Thaws

Trace the development of the Cold War.

Ch 34-SECTION 4 Conflicts in the Middle East

Describe the formation of Israel and the conflicts in the Middle East.

Essential Questions

Vocabulary:

Alliance

Union of people, groups, or nations to achieve common goals

Berlin airlift

Flying of food and supplies into West Berlin by Britain and the United States to break a Soviet blockade

Blockade

Act of cutting off one place from all others

Brink

Edge

Cease-Fire

End to fighting

Clashed

Disagreed strongly

Collective Farms

Large farms worked by many families

Counterattack

To make a return attack

Fragile

Delicate; easily broken

Guerrilla War

Warfare carried out by small, independent groups, often acting secretly in and around their own towns and villages

Islam

Religion with a belief in one god that developed in Arabia

Latitude

A line that measures distance north or south from the earth's equator

Neutral

Not choosing sides between any particular nations or groups

Political Unrest

State of conflict over the government, its leaders, or its laws

Revive

To bring back to life; to give new strength

Across

• 3.Communist rebels in Cambodia (2 wrds)
• 4.Line dividing Western and Eastern Europe (2 wrds)
• 6.Diplomatic hostility between U.S. and USSR (2 wrds)
• 9.Successor to Joseph Stalin
• 11.Organization for world peace (2 wrds)
• 13.Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (abbr)
• 14.Policy directed at blocking Soviet influence
• 15.Militia units formed by young Chinese Communists (2 wrds)

Down

• 1.Term for developing nations (2 wrds)
• 2.Policy of lessened Cold War tensions
• 5.Muslim leader of Iran
• 7.Communist leader of Vietnam (3 wrds)
• 8.Doctrine U.S. support for nations that rejected communism (2 wrds)
• 10.Anti-missile program (2 wrds)
• 12.Military alliance of democratic nations (abbr)

Chapter Quiz:

Diplomatic hostility between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II was known as

(A)the Truman Doctrine

(B)the Warsaw Pact

(C)the Cold War

(D)the Marshall Plan

The goal of the Cultural Revolution was

(A)to achieve complete social equality

(B)to enact women’s rights

(C)to collectivize agriculture

(D)to transform industrial production

After World War II, the major foreign policy goal of the United States was

(A)the division of Asia

(B)the containment of communism

(C)to promote world peace

(D)to promote Third World independence

The nations of the developing world were known as the

(A)First World

(B)Second World

(C)Third World

(D)nonaligned nations

In the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union moved towards a policy of

(A)brinksmanship

(B)realpolitik

(C)disarmament

(D)detente

On the Final:

cold war

Ho Chi Minh

Hungarian revolt

Marshall Plan

NATO

United Nations

Vietnam war

war crime trials

Warsaw pact

conflicts in the middle east

Israel

Middle East Conflicts

apartheid

Mandela, Nelson

Soviet Union, collapse of the

Tutu, Desmond

Group Discussion Key