A Soviet attempt (1948–1949) to cut off West Berlin from Western supplies; it was countered by the US-led Berlin Airlift, which delivered food and fuel by air.
Berlin Blockade
Iron Curtain
A symbolic and physical division between the communist Eastern Bloc and the capitalist West during the Cold War, first used by Winston Churchill in 1946.
The leader of the Chinese Communist Party who led the revolution, established the People's Republic of China in 1949, and ruled until his death in 1976.
Mao Zedong
Salvador Allende
Chile’s socialist president (1970–1973), overthrown in a US- backed military coup led by General Pinochet.
Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars)
A US missile defense project launched by President Reagan in 1983 to counter Soviet nuclear threats using space-based technology.
+ True or False: Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the surface of the moon.
True
+ Pick one important figure you have learned about this year and explain who they were and what they did.
(varies)
Marshall Plan
A US economic aid program (1948–1952) that provided financial support to rebuild war-torn Europe, strengthen economies, and prevent the spread of communism.
Afghanistan Invasion
The 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to support a communist government, sparking a long war against US-backed Afghan resistance fighters (Mujahideen).
Iranian Revolution
A 1979 revolution that ousted the pro-Western Shah, leading to an Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini.
Chinese Civil War
A conflict (1927–1949) between the Chinese Nationalists (Kuomintang) and Communists, ending with Mao Zedong's victory and the Nationalists fleeing to Taiwan.
A series of economic and political reforms in the Soviet Union introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s to modernize the communist system.
Perestroika
A Polish trade union movement, founded in 1980, that challenged communist rule and contributed to the fall of communism in Poland and Eastern Europe.
Solidarność (Solidarity)
+ Name a participant country of the Bandung conference
Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Burma, Cambodia, Ceylon, Gold Coast, India, Indonesia, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iraq, Iran, Japan, Jordan, Laos, Lebanon, Liberia, Libya,....
COMECON
The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (1949–1991), a Soviet-led economic organization that coordinated trade and development among communist countries.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (founded in 1949),a military alliance of Western countries aimed at collective defense against the Soviet Union and its allies.
NATO
+ What was the Bandung Conference?
A conference (April 1955 in Bandung, Indonesia) where delegates from newly independent African and Asian Countries met to affirm independence desires
A Cold War strategy where both the US and the USSR built large nuclear arsenals, ensuring that any attack would lead to total destruction of both sides, prevent
Prague Spring
A brief period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia (1968) under Alexander Dubček, crushed by a Soviet-led invasion to maintain communist control.
+The concept of Third World, and problems in the new states include what various aspects?
Poverty, political instability, internal conflicts (religious, ethnic, cultural), and lack of infrastructure ect...
A military alliance created in 1955 by the USSR and its Eastern Bloc allies as a response to NATO, ensuring Soviet control over Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
+Explain one event that happened during WWII.
(say one event that happened during WWII)
Hungarian Revolution
A 1956 uprising against Soviet rule in Hungary, calling for democracy and independence, violently suppressed by Soviet forces.
Sandinista Revolution
A 1979 uprising in Nicaragua that overthrew dictator Somoza and brought a socialist government led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
+ What was your favorite fact you learned in class this year?
(say your favorite fact)
+ Neocolonialism primarily occurs through three mechanisms, name what they are.
Financial dependence, Technological dependence, and Trade dependence
Berlin Wall
A concrete barrier built in 1961 to prevent East Berliners from fleeing to West Berlin, symbolizing Cold War divisions; it fell in 1989.
A US policy introduced in 1947 to stop the spread of communism by providing military and economic aid to countries threatened by Soviet influence, starting with Greece and Turkey.
Truman Doctrine (Containment)
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