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Western Civ. II
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History
Undergraduate 2
05/07/2013

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Term
First televised war?
Definition
The Cold War (in Asia)
Term

Turning Point of the Cold war in asia?

 

Definition
Tet Offensive
Term

What is the tet offensive and why didn't it go as planned?

 

Definition
A vietnamese holiday where americans ceased fire but the vietnamese attack anyway. They lost.
Term
American's dropped what acid to clear the forest? What effecr did it have on civilians?
Definition

Nepalm.

Burned them to the bone.

Term

Where do hippies begin to protest?

(some of their first appearances)

Definition

Democratic National Convention 

in Chicago

Term
Who is given the democratic nomination after Robert F. Kennedy is assassinated?
Definition
Hurbert H. Humphrey
Term
Who beats out Hurbert. H. Humphrey in the election?
Definition
Richard Nixon
Term
After elected for a second term, how much longer before Nixon pulls US out of vietnam? how much longer until the war ends?
Definition

5 years.

2 years.

Term
Students from which university are shot by the national gaurd for protesting?
Definition
Kent State University
Term
How does latin america plan to pay for modernization? Why doesn't it work?
Definition

export boom.

Greed 

Term
Hired peruvians with low pay and dangerous jobs?
Definition
U.S cerro de Pasco copper mine
Term
Cleared forest where people lived to plant bananas?
Definition
United Fruit Company (chiquita)
Term
The government of latin america is a puppet to big corporate american businesses. This is?
Definition
Neocolonialism
Term
Wanted Americans and Europeans to invest in Mexico for "modernization". Pocketed all profits. Rigged elections to stay in office. Jailed journalist who tried to expose him. Finally is brought down in bloody 10 year revolt:
Definition
Porfirio Diaz
Term
Portfirio Diaz's army in charge of keeping down peasant rallys
Definition
Rurales
Term

Country that is a one trick pony?

What happens when this trick fails?

 

Definition

Banana Republic.

Economy goes down.

Term
Putting more money in education than in the military?
Definition
political nationalism
Term

First welfare country in Latin America?

Who is the president?

Definition

Yuraguay.

Batlle y Ordenez

Term
Focusing on the countries people?
Definition
social nationalism
Term
Dance that originated in the black areas of Argentina?
Definition
Tango
Term
Dance that originated in the poor black areas of Brazil?
Definition
Samba
Term
Artist who painted frescos displaying the lives of people in latin america?
Definition
Diego Rivera
Term

Taking over a foreign countries utility in your country due to the fact that the home country isn't benefitting?

 

Definition
economic nationalism
Term
why doesn't the US retaliate when mexico natinalizes the us oil industry in mexico?
Definition
good neighbor policy(FDR)
Term
organization est. by truman to get rid of communism in Latin America?
Definition
Organization of American States (OAS)
Term
Why does the cold war in Latin America begin?
Definition
Truman and the CIA believe latin america nationalizing is communism.
Term
what stated that communism was a foreign invader and america had the rights to invade?
Definition
Declaration of Caracus
Term
Nationalist who was elected president of Guatamala. Promised to get rid of poverty and iliteracy. Worked especially with indians (mayans) who worked on german coffee ships and land owned by United Fruit Company?
Definition
Jacobo Arbenz
Term
When Arbenz nationalized the United fruit Company, which powerful investors tried to get him out by a proxy froce?
Definition

The Dulles' brothers:

John Foster Dulles (Sec. of State)

Alan Dulles (Head of CIA)

Term
What is a Proxy Force?
Definition
A foreign government training the people of a country to fight against their home country.
Term
BENEFITS of a proxy force:
Definition

1. don't get your hands dirty

2. something goes wrong you can deny involvment

3. gives impression that it doesn't involve outer bodies

Term
Military Dictator of Cuba who was very corupt but a good friend of the US?
Definition
Fulgenico Batista
Term
Attempted to get rid of Batista. Was deported to Mexico. Lead Cuban revolution in 1956 with his brother Rauel.
Definition
Fidel Castro
Term
Which fellow communist did Fidel Castro meet while deported to Mexico? Also an Argentinian doctor.
Definition
Che Guevana
Term
What type of warfare do the revolutionaries engage in?
Definition
gorilla
Term
After revolutionaries took Havana, Cuba became a ________ government?
Definition
communist
Term
Why does Castro nationalize American oil companies?
Definition
American rigs refused to process soviet oil (soviet oil is cheaper)
Term
Who does Castro sell nationalized (american and european) sugar to?
Definition
The Soviet Union
Term
JFK and CIA train a proxy force and land where in Cuba?
Definition
The Bay of Pigs
Term
Why is the bay of pigs unsucessful?
Definition
Farmer tips off Cuban government and proxy is defeated.
Term
Who is using the cuban jungle to host nuclear missiles?
Definition
The Soviet Union
Term
US blockades Cuba so Soviets couldn't put missiles there causing russia to back down?
Definition
Cuban Missile crisis
Term
Communist who was elected leader of Chile, nationalized foreign companies. CIA aided opponents to run against him and he still won. They trained proxy force to assassinate him.
Definition
Salvidor Allende
Term
Which corupt family ruled Nicaragua?
Definition
the Somoza family
Term
What did the Somoza's do with the relief money they recieved from the earthquake that hit Manugua?
Definition
pocketed it
Term
Who founded the ESLN or Sandinistas?
Definition
Carlos Fonseca
Term
What was the purpose of the ESLN?(sandinistas)
Definition
Get rid of the Somoza family
Term
What most wanted person in the US are the sandinistas  named after?
Definition
Sandino
Term
After Fonseca is killed in the bloody civil war that causes the somoza to flee, what type of government takes over?
Definition
Communist
Term
To fight the communists in Nicaragua, Regan aided the argentinian?
Definition

Contras or contrarrevolutiones

(counter revolutionaries)

Term
The training of contras in Argentina by the US leads to the?
Definition
Iran contra affair
Term
What is the Iran contra affair? Why is it bad?
Definition
It's illegal to support counter revolutionaries so US sold weapons to Iran (at war with Iraq)  to release US hostages and when they were done the iranians gave their weapons to the contras. Also Illegal to sell weapons to Iran
Term
Formed to increase indian's power (mostly well-educated and wealthy)
Definition
Indian National Congress
Term
How did the indian's benefit the British during WWII? How does it hurt them and cause them to want freedom?
Definition
Indians were forced to fight with the British and India produced food for Indian and British soliders. Causing people in India to starve.
Term
Used a civil, non-violent way of handling things, fasted, wore traditional indian clothing and fasted.
Definition
Mahandas Ghandi
Term
Into what 3 ways is India split when it receives freedom from Britain?
Definition
India Proper(hindu), Pakistan(muslim), and East Pakistan(muslim)
Term
What do the muslims form so they get a say in the mostly hindu government of India?
Definition
the Muslim League
Term
What is East Pakistan changed to?
Definition
Bangladesh
Term
Why does a radical militant hindu assassinate Gandhi?
Definition
Said Gandhi didn't take a higher stand against Pakistan and his non-violence was wrong.
Term
Pakistan and India both wanted? had land and nuclear bombs in?
Definition
Kashmir
Term
First African colony to decolonize. Boycotted british goods.
Definition
Ghana
Term
Leader of Ghana during decolonization?
Definition
Kwame Nkrumah
Term
Became independent from Belgium after 80 years. Had civil War over power struggle.
Definition
Congo
Term
Leader of congo during decolonization
Definition
Patrice Lumumba
Term
Last two colonies to be decolonized in Africa. Freed from Portugal. They fought for freedom.
Definition
Angola and Mozambique
Term
Which two global military powers denounce colonization?
Definition
US and Soviet Union
Term
After the war which country is the only remaining world power?
Definition
US
Term
What rises in colonized countries?
Definition
poverty
Term
American and British leaders called for ____ _______and _____ _______ around the world?
Definition
free elections and global democracy
Term
South Africa became independent from _____. Still had a ruling minority of white people.
Definition
Great Britian
Term
Prevented africans from owninf land?
Definition
Land Act(1913)
Term
Must have a passport to trvel through "white" areas of south africa?
Definition
Pass System
Term
Which white party is in power of south Africa?
Definition
Nationalist Party
Term
the nationalist party(white) came to power and instigated a _____ or legalized segregation?
Definition
Partie
Term
Wanted to advance freedom in south africa?
Definition
African national congress
Term
African police opened fire on protestors.
Definition
Sharpesville massacre
Term
Leader of the ANC who was jailed for involvement.
Definition
Nelson Mandela
Term
Why did whites get away with segregation?
Definition
linked it to communism
Term
What action happens that allows for africans to take control of south africa?
Definition
the fall of the soviet union
Term
South africa holds free elections under which white president?
Definition
F.W. Deklerk
Term
Who is elected president of south Africa?
Definition
Nelson Mandela
Term
The thawing of the cold war, where the US and USSR become more friendly and china and USSR split ties.
Definition
Detente
Term
Communism created rivalries
Definition
sphere of influence
Term
Leader of Soviet Union when it falls. eventually taken hostage.
Definition
Mikhail Gorbachev
Term
Which part of germany breaks away first and causes the berlin to fall
Definition
East Germany
Term
Leader of new russia in 1991
Definition
Boris Yeltsin
Term
proposed by us official,wanted to completely destroy German gov. Stalin for it. Truman rejected it.
Definition
morgenthau plan
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