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Unit 8 APWH
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The Big Three | The leaders of GB, USA, & USSR |
| The Tehran Conference | 1943; Allies agreed the USSR would focus on freeing Eastern Europe while GB & the US would concentrate on W. Europe |
| The Yalta Conference | 1945; Allies disagreed on after Germany's surrender, leaders focused on plans for reconstructing Europe & defeating Japan |
| The Potsdam Conference | Stalin refused Truman's demands for free elections in Eastern Europe |
| Military-industrial complex | The informal alliance between the government & large defense contractors |
| Self-determination | The idea that each country should choose its own form of government and leaders |
| Iron Curtain | The split between Eastern & Western Europe |
| Satellite Countries | Each country should choose its own form of government & leaders |
| Containment | Preventing the spread of communism |
| The Marshall Plan | Designed to offer financial aid to all of Europe |
| Berlin Airlift | Western Allies flew supplies into Western Berlin over the Berlin Blockade; Soviets lifted the blockade because it failed |
| Berlin Wall | Built to stop East Germans from fleeing to the West |
| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) | An alliance created by many Western nations to ensure national support |
| The Warsaw Pact | The USSR's response to NATO; combined member countries' armed forces & put them under army leaders in Moscow |
| Domino Theory | The belief that if one country in an area became communist, others would follow |
| Communes | A body of families/people living together |
| Red Guards | The radical youth of the Cultural Revolution in China |
| Land Reform | Breakup of large agricultural holdings for redistribution among peasants |
| The Muslim League | An organization formed in 1906 to protect Muslim interests in india |
| Charles de Gaulle | French general & statesman; led free French forces |
| Viet Cong | The communist guerilla movement in Vietnam |
| Gamal Abdel Nasser | Led the coup that toppled the monarchy of King Farouh (Egypt) |
| Suez Crisis | Britain is no longer a world power |
| The "Quiet Revolution" | Rapid change in Quebec (1960-1966) |
| Great Leap Forward | Mao Zedong wanted land Reform, communes, grain export, & to convince the world of economic prosperity in China; was a great failure & led to 20 mil. deaths , famine, and corruption |
| Cultural Revolution | Mao Zedong's attempt to reinvigorate China's commitment to communism |
| Zionist Movement | a nationalist, political, & ideological movement that aimed to establish a Jewish national state in Palestine |
| Six-Day War | tension between Arabs & Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967 |
| Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) | Wanted to create a homeland for Palestinians in Israel |
| Khmer Rouge | A group of Communist rebels who seized power in Cambodia |
| Kashmir | A region of North India & Pakistan over which several destructive wars have been fought |
| Sirimavo Bandaranaike | Sri Lankan stateswoman & politician/ the world's first female head of gov't |
| Metropole | The dominant part of an empire |
| Chinese Civil War | Nationalists (GMD) vs. Communists (Mao) |
| White Revolution | A bloodless revolution in Iran; gov't bought land from wealthy landowners & sold it to peasants |
| Francisco Franco | Anti-communist leader in Spain; used violence to put down resistance |
| Idi Amin | The "Butcher of Uganda;" intensified existing ethnic conflict |
| Shining Path | Peru's revolutionary organization led by Abimael Guzman; wanted to install communist gov't |
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