Cold War/ new nations

Indies Ghandi

1st female PM of India, killed by Sikh extremists

Gilda Meir

First female PM of Israel, Yom Kippur war

Chinese civil war

Mao communists against jieshi nationalists, communists won

Effect of Vietnam war

One communist nation

What is the difference between brinkmanship and detente?

Brinkmanship is high tensions then someone backs down, detente is lessening tensions

Effect of Korean War

Communist north and democratic south, 3rd parallel

Khrushchev

Destalinization

What was the purpose of the partition?

Divide Muslims (Pakistan) and Hindus (India)

Jawaharlal Nehru

First PM of India

Gorbachev

Glasnocht (Open religon/speech) and parastrocha (economic freedom)

Kwame Nkrumah

Led Ghana's independence movement, later overthrown

How did the Soviet Union collapse?

Satellite countries declared independence

How was Israel created?

UN gives homeland to Jews because of holocaust