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What was the outcome of WWII?
The Allies won, leading to the collapse of European Empires and the establishment of the
U.S. and the USSR as the two big powers
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What is the United Nations?
An international cooperative organization dedicated to keeping peace
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What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Made by the UN—it provided a code of conduct for the treatment of people under
the protection of a government.
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What is NATO?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization—created by democratic nations to cooperate against Communism
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What is the Iron Curtain?
A “wall” between the communist countries in the East and the democratic countries in the West of Europe
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What happened at Nuremburg?
WWII war crimes trials where Nazis were tried for their actions in WWII
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What was the Yalta Conference?
US, Britain, and USSR met to create a postwar plan—divided up Germany between them and France, gave the USSR Eastern European countries
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What is the Marshall Plan?
The U.S. plan to give aid to any European nation that needs it after WWII to prevent
Communism from spreading to them
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What is containment?
The policy of keeping communism from spreading
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What was the Cold War?
Political and ideological rivalry between the U.S. (democracy/capitalism) and the USSR (Communist)

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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A confrontation between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba in October 1962, during the Cold War. The Soviet Union was placing nuclear missiles in Cuba only 90 miles away from the US
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What is significant about the Korean War?
Fought between North Korea(communist) and South Korea(Democratic)—ended with the country divided at the 38 th parallel
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What is significant about the Vietnam War?
Started due to the domino theory—the U.S. had to back out of the war and Vietnam became communist
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What is the domino theory?
If one country falls to communism, the others will follow
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
USSR’s response to NATO—an alliance of Eastern European communist countries
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What was the Berlin Wall?
Wall separating East and West Berlin--symbol of Communist tyranny to the West

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What is the difference between a developed and a developing nation?
A developed nation has everything needed for the advanced production of industrialized goods and a developing nation is in the process of obtaining what’s needed to become industrialized
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What environmental challenges face the world today?
More pollution, loss of habitat, global climate change
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What social challenges face the world today?
Poverty, poor health, illiteracy, famine, migration
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What is the European Union?
Example of regional integration—economic and political union of 27 member nations
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What is NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Agreement—eliminated trade restrictions between USA, Canada, Mexico
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What is the WTO?
Int’l organization created to supervise international trade and support free trade
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What is the IMF?
International Monetary Fund—gives out emergency loans to countries in a crisis
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What is terrorism?
Use of violence and threats to intimidate and coerce for political reasons
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Give 5 examples of international terrorism.
Munich Olympics, 9/11 attacks, suicide bombings, airplane hijacking, car bombings
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Give 3 government responses to terrorist activities.
Surveillance increased, personal rights decrease, security increased, identification required
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