Government ownership of property

Provide for economic recovery in Western Europe

Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Korean War, Warsaw Pact, Berlin Airlift, Cuban Missile Crisis, Nuclear Arms Race

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

Nations divided into communist and noncommunist Cold War period

A conflict that was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union who competed economically, militarily, and ideologically. The U.S. and the Soviet Union became the world's two superpowers.

Both used violence to get rid of their enemies

Tensions between traditionalism and modernization

Acts of violence designed to promote a specific ideology or agenda by creating panic among an enemy population. It will be a long and difficult road to combat this.

A U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism.

Containment policy

Marked by the fall of the Soviet Union which was the result of Eastern European countries gaining independence, Gorbachev's reforms especially when the Berlin Wall comes down

Leader of the Soviet Union who made dramatic changes to the way the Soviet Union ran, proposed many new ideas to change the inadequate system of the USSR

Program leading to increased freedom of expression under Mikhail Gorbachev.

A policy initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev that involved restructuring of the social and economic status quo in communist Russia towards a market based economy and society

Help out growth of the economy and political decision

Policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race in South Africa

Jewish State is created in 1945, Six Day War, West Bank

Nuclear capabilities

Increase the freedom and rights of Chinese citizens

India was divided because of religious differences, and as a result Pakistan was created

A system of racial segregation in South Africa that was in effect for more than 50 years and was intended to protect white South African minority

Leader of the Indian independence movement and advocate of nonviolent resistance (passive resistance) to show the injustice of British rule

Systematic killing of a racial or cultural group

The killing of more than 500,000 ethnic Tutsis by rival Hutu militias in Rwanda in 1994.

Student demonstrator in China

Technologies have made our society more global and interdependent

United States and Soviet Union no longer had a common enemy of Nazi Germany, and became rivalres over the future of Europe

Peasants that supported Mao Zedong

Guerilla warfare