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| | Unit Five:
Perspectives on the Present
The following assignments complement your reading selections from Modern World History: Patterns of Interaction.
Chapter Seventeen:
Restructuring the Postwar Years
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Title: Restructuring the
Postwar Years CAS:
Analyze the international developments in the postwar world. Topic
Preview:
Restructuring the Postwar World With
much of Europe and parts of Asia in ruins after World War II, the United
States and the Soviet Union emerged as rival superpowers. Their political
and military confrontations dominated world affairs for the next 40 years. |
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook. |
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iron curtain
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containment
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brinkmanship
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commune
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domino theory
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Vietnamization
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nonaligned nations
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desalinization
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détente
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook. |
- United Nations
- Mao Zedong
- Jiang Jieshi
- Cultural Revolution
- Douglas MacArthur
- Ho Chi Minh
- Ngo Dinh Diem
- Vietcong
- Khmer Rouge
- Fidel Castro
- Daniel Ortega
- Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
- Nikita Khrushchev
- Leonid Brezhnev
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Chapter Eighteen:
New Nations
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook. |
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partition
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook. |
- Jawaharlal Nehru
- Muhammad Ali Jinnah
- Indira Gandhi
- Rajiv Gandhi
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Corazón Aquino
- Aung San Suu Kyi
- Negritude movement
- Kwame Nkrumah
- Mobutu Sese Seko
- FLN
- Balfour Declaration
- Anwar Sadat
- Menachem Begin
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Yasir Arafat
- PLO
- Golda Meir
- Hosni Mubarak
- Bejamin Netanyahu
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Chapter Nineteen:
Struggles for Democracy
Terms
The following terms have
been extracted from your textbook reading assignments. Using your
textbook, identify each of the following terms in your notebook. |
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standard of living
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recession
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martial law
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dissident
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apartheid
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glasnost
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perestroika
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reunification
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"shock therapy"
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ethnic cleansing
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Identifications
The
following identifications have been extracted from your textbook reading
assignments. Using your textbook, identify each of the following people,
places, and other items in your notebook. |
- PRI
- Nelson Mandela
- FW de Klerk
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- Lech Walesa
- Boris Yeltsin
- CIS
- Zhou Enlai
- Deng Xiaoping
- Four Modernizations
- Tiananmen Square
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