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WH Vocab Final
Cards for Vocab Final World History
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conflicts where superpowers support opposing sides indirectly, often to advance their own interests without directly engaging in combat. | Proxy Wars |
| A prolonged conflict (1955-1975) between North Vietnam supported by communist allies and South Vietnam supported by U.S. | Vietnam War |
| Competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to achieve significant milestones in space exploration and technology during the Cold War. | Space Race |
| Political ideology advocating a classless society where property is owned communally and the state controls the economy, prevalent in the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. | Communism |
| A competition between nations to acquire weapon superiority (primarily nuclear weapons) during the Cold War. | Arms Race |
| A 1962 confrontation between the USA and Soviet Union over ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba, leading to a tense standoff and narrowly avoiding nuclear war. | Cuban Missile Crisis |
| U.S. policy during the Cold War aimed at preventing the spread of communism, primarily through military, economic, and diplomatic means. | Containment |
| Soviet leader from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953, known for his brutal dictatorship, industrialization policies, and role in World War II. | Joseph Stalin |
| Cuban revolutionary leader who overthrew the Batista regime in 1959 and established a communist state in Cuba, aligning closely with the Soviet Union. | Fidel Castro |
| Soviet leader after Stalin's death, known for his policy of de-Stalinization, involvement in the Cuban Missile Crisis, and attempts at peaceful coexistence with the West. | Nikita Khrushchev |
| Conflict (1950-1953) between North Korea supported by Communist states, and South Korea supported by the United Nations and primarily the USA, resulting in an armistice rather than a formal peace treaty. | Korean War |
| The theory that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries are likely to follow suit, a justification for U.S. intervention during the Cold War. | Domino Theory |
| Periods of intense anti-communist hysteria and fear of radicalism, particularly during the Cold War in the United States. | Red Scare |
| A barrier constructed by East Germany in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin, symbolizing the Cold War divide between communism and capitalism. | Berlin Wall |
| Economic system characterized by private ownership of industry and market-driven competition, prevalent in Western countries during the Cold War. | Capitalism |
| The refusal to comply with laws or to pay taxes as a peaceful (non-violent) form of political protest. | Civil Disobedience |
| Voluntary refusal to support a product, person, organization, or country as an expression of protest. | Boycott |
| The 2001 September attacks were a series of 4 coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by the militant Islamic extremists Al-Qaeda. | 9/11 |
| Founded in 1945, an intergovernmental organization whose purpose is to maintain peace. | United Nations |
| The military campaign led by the US, UK, and their allies against organizations and regimes identified by them as a terror. | War on Terror |
| The process by which countries, businesses, or other organizations develop international influence or start operating on a global scale. | Globalization |
| The process by which imperialized colonies became independent of the colonizing country. | Decolonization |
| Money that is sent home by people working abroad to help boost the economy in their home country. | remittances |
| A change in the global climate patterns, such as global warming, attributed to the burning of fossil fuels. | climate change |
| A pair of political agreements hosted by Jimmy Carter between the Egyptian and Israeli states, at a secret off-site camp. | Camp David Accords |
| A South African statesman who was arrested during a peaceful protest in 1962, fighting the racist British rule | Nelson Mandela |
| When consumers receive & purchase goods from businesses in nations outside of their own nation. | external consumption |
| A Hindu Activist who fought for the freedom of India from the British Raj. | Mohandas Ghandi |
| During the Arab-Israeli War, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries imposed a block on the US oil trade. | OPEC embargo |
| Established in 1948, a policy or system of unfair racial segregation or discrimination in South Africa. | apartheid |
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