World History Notes

Asian Tigers

The ________ are nations which made fast advances following WWII.

Nuremberg Trials

The ________ tried Nazi leaders accused of war crimes.

MLK Jr

________ started a movement to end segregation and other civil rights injustices.

Mikhail Gorbachev

________ recognized the need for economic changed due to the lack of consumer goods.

Marshall Plan

The ________ helped reconstruction of post- war Europe and NATO members put aside longstanding rivalries to help each other.

Guomindang Nationalists

________ set up government in Taiwan.

Gandhi

________ begins the,"Quit India "movement to drive the British out of India.

Japan

________ got economic growth by the breaking down of monopolizing organizations and by supplying forces fighting in the Korean War.

Deterrence

________ was a policy of creating and training military power to prevent attacks by the opposition.

Yeltsin

________ makes Russia more capitalistic, but many lose government jobs.

General MacArthur

________ tries many Japanese military officials for war crimes.

Nixon

________ pursued the detente policy between the US and the USSR.

Berlin Wall

What is taken down? Answer with a single words or term.

Stalin

________ helps rebuild the USSR and Khrushchev loosens some restrictions on USSR citizens.

Mao

________ tried to eliminate opposition and also sought advice from the USSR.

Germany

________ paid reparations to other countries for causing the war.

Americans

________ do not win as easily as expected and support for the war weans.

Sukarno

________ took control of government and his economic policies were horrible for Indonesia.

Baby Boom

________ occurs in this time.

Indonesia

________ takes over the Portuguese colony of East Timor, which rebels against ________ for 3 decades.

Nehru

________ helped the poor, low caste, and widows.

India

What is Hindu, while East Pakistan and West Pakistan are Muslim? Answer with a single words or term.

President Ferdinand Marcos

________ became a dictator, imposing martial law on political opponents.

Britain

________ decides to leave India after WWII ends.

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

________ leads the Muslim League and believes the Muslim voice can only be maintained if they have a separate nation.