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