Megan Mallory

 

World History E-Core

 

Period 5

 

3 June 2005

 

 

Cold War Exam Ch. 32-33
STUDY GUIDE

CH. 32:

·        Terrorist

o       Someone who uses deliberate use of random violence, especially against civilians

o       They did this as exact revenge or to achieve political goals

·        Privatization

o       Selling off state-owned industries to private investors

o       Debtor nations had to agree to adopt free-market policies from socialism

·        Nonaligned

o       This meant that one was not allied to either side of the Cold War

o       Countries such as India hoped they would lighten the tensions of the Cold War if they remained nonaligned

·        multinational corporation

o       Enterprises with branched in many countries

o       These enterprises have invested in the developing world

·        liberation theology

o       Urging the Church to take a more active role in opposing the social conditions that contributed to poverty

o       This took place in mainly Latin America

·        interdependence

o       This is the dependence of countries on goods, resources, and knowledge from other parts of the world

o       Since 1945, transportation and communication systems have made the world increasingly interdependent 

·        culture shock

·        acid rain

o       A form of pollution in which toxic chemicals in the air come back to the Earth as rain, snow, or hail

o       Acid rain damages forests, lakes, and farmland

·        effects of Cold War

o       The United States profited greatly from the growing global economy

o       American industries faced competition with Asian and other nations

·        why did democracy fail in many new nations?

o       Prices skyrocketed because prices used to be artificially low under communism

o       Factories that could not survive without the government were closed

·        majority of world's wealth controlled by ?

o       The West

o       The West was much more advanced technology wise than the East

·        effect of urbanization in developing nations

o       Older traditions and beliefs were wanted to be kept, along with the new ideals of westernization

o       These two ideas did not exactly mix, and there were constant disputes between the two ideas

·        factories effect on environmental damage

o       Countries fought over whose fault it was for the environmental damage

o       World leaders discussed how to clean up and preserve the planet

·        factors contributing to political instability in African nations

o       one-third of all households are run by women

o       Women had no political say in politics until recently in Africa

·        primary cause of global interdependence

o       The development of the UN intertwined the ordeals of other nations

o       The economies of the countries in the UN depended on one another

·        global South

o       Civil Wars and other struggles prevented economic development in the South

o       Military dictators or other authoritarian leaders spent huge sums on weapons and warfare instead of on education, housing, or health care

·        modern technology

o       The inventions of the past have paved the way for the inventions of the 20th century

o       Televisions, Telephones, Satellites, Telescopes, Microwaves, Cell Phones, and radios are among some of the inventions that were created

CH. 33

·        welfare state

o       A government keeps most features of a capitalist economy but takes greater responsibility for the social and economic needs of its people

·        Glasnost

o       Otherwise known as openness

o       This was a tactic used by a political leader to encourage people to discuss publicly the country’s problems

·        Dissident

o       These were people who spoke out against the government

o       Many countries do not have freedom of speech

·        Deficit

o       The gap between what a government spends and what it take in through taxes and other sources

o       The deficit of the United State keep son getting larger and larger

·        détente

o       This was a time of relaxation of tensions

o       This brought new agreements to reduce nuclear stockpiles

·        Leonid

o       He took over the Soviet Union until his death in 1982

o       He wanted no freedom of speech, and anyone who spoke up faced arrest and imprisonment

·        Brezhnev

o       People who talked badly about the government were sometimes sent to an insane asylum

o       He was not able to solve the Soviet problems

·        Charles de Gaulle

o        

·        Martin Luther King Jr.

o       He gave African-Americans the same rights as white people

o       He got a law to be passed that declared the segregation of blacks and white to be unlawful

·        Joseph McCarthy

o       He was a Senator between 1950 and 1954

o       He charged many Americans with harboring communist sympathies

·        Margarent Thatcher

o       She led the Conservative party, who denounced welfare as being costly and inefficient

o       During her 11 years as Britain's prime minister, Thatcher worked to replace government social and economical programs

·        Perestroika

o       This was the structuring of the government and the economy

o       One political leader hoped that streamlining the government and reducing the size of the bureaucracy would boost efficiency and output

·        service industry

o       One that provides a service rather than a product

o       This includes health care, finance, sales, education, and recreation

·        Mikhail Gorbachev

o       He was a Soviet leader who loosened up the Soviet grip in Europe

o       Under his watch, one communist government fell after another communist government

·        Helmut Kohl

o       He was a West German Chancellor as the architect of unity

o       He assured both the Soviet Union and the West that a united Germany would pose no threat to peace

·        Nikita Krushchev

o       He emerged as the new Soviet leader

o       In 1956 he publicly announced Stalin’s abuse of power

·        Josip Tito

o       He was a fierce guerilla leader in WWII

o       He set up a communist government in Yugoslavia and pursued a path independent of Moscow

·        Lech Walesa

o       He led the strikes by the shipyard workers in the port of Gdansk

o       They organized an independent trade union called Solidarity

·        reunification of Germany

o       The Berlin Wall was toppled and the country reunited

o       Most changes came peacefully

·        goal of separatism in Quebec

o       The French-speakers in Quebec considered themselves a “distinct society”

o       To protect their culture, they demanded autonomy within Canada

·        result of central economic planning in the Soviet Union

o       Such rapid change brought economic turmoil

o       Communists and bureaucrats whose careers were at stake denounced the reforms

·        civil war in Yugoslavia

o       There were three groups that consistently had disputes in Yugoslavia

o       After Tito’s death and the fall of communism, they fought with each other even more, leading to the breakup of Yugoslavia

 

 

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