World History CST Review Part V

1. World History CST ReviewPart V

2. divide Germany into military occupation zones. The city of Berlin is also divided. The purpose of dividing Germany is to weaken it. The map of Europe is restructured as a result of this conference. At the Yalta Conference in 1945,Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin decide to...

3. were tried and convicted of crimes against humanity. At the Nuremberg Trials, Nazi leaders...

4. ro urtai In a speech on March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill, stated "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an i__n c____n has descended across the Continent." Following the Yalta Conference in 1945, Europe is essentially divided into a democratic West and a Communist East (this is the division that Churchill is referring to in this quote).

5. promote world peace and prevent war. The Security Council is the main peace keeping body. The Five permanent members of the Security Council are China, Great Britain, U.S. , France, and Russia. The United Nations (1945) was established to...

6. ontainmen that were threatened with Communist expansion. These policies became the foundation of U.S. foreign policy. inancia The Truman Doctrine (1947) sought the c________t of communism and the Marshall Plan (1948) offered f_____l aid toEuropean countries...

7. sought to be the dominant power in the world, a period of time known as the Cold War. Both countries greatly expanded their arsenals of nuclear weapons and were committed to different economic and political systems (democracy and capitalism v. communism and dictatorship). Following WW2 (1939-1945), the United States and the Soviet Union...

8. Civi Between 1946 and 1949, a ____l war was fought between theC__________ (led by ___o) and the N_________s (led by Chiang ____-____k). The ____________ were victorious, and China was renamed The _______'s R_______ of China. China was now free of Japanese of domination. ommunists Ma ationalist Kai she Communists People epublic

9. ommunist During the C________ Revolution, Mao sought to create a society of e____s (peasants and workers) by purging society of c_______s, intellectuals, and "counterrevolutionaries." The destruction of Chinese art and antiquities was carried out by the R__ ___G____s, who also tortured and executed civilians during the C______ Revoltion. qual apitalist ed uard ultural

10. Leap During the Great _____ Forward, Mao and the Communist Party dictated a new e_______c model, where ______ collectivization (farms were called "communes") and rapid i_____________n were sought to create a modern, __________t society. Droughts and poor planning resulted in the starvation of millions. conomi forced ndustrializatio Communis

11. United Nations in response to the atrocities committed during WW2 (1939-1945). This is the first global expression of rights that all human beings are entitled to. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) was adopted by the...

12. ato Warsaw Union oviet Airlift. The military alliances of N___ (1949)and the ______ Pact (1955) grew out of tensions between the West and the S____ _____ following the Berlin…

13. the Berlin Wall fell. The fall off the wall can be directly attributed to the policies of Mikhail Gorbachev ("perestroika" which was restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system and "glasnost" which allowed the activities of the government to be open to debate and allowed for freedom of the speech and press). The fall of the Berlin Wall is considered to mark the end of the Cold War. In November of 1989, ...

14. In the first image, the Berlin Wall falls as a result of the East German government allowing free travel between East and West Berlin, on November 9, 1989. In the second image, the "Tank Man" stops Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square in 1989, following the violent Chinese suppression of the protests for democracy. The East Germans achieve democracy, the Chinese protestors do not. How do these two images "compare" and how do they "contrast"?