CONTEMPORARY 20TH AND 21ST CENTURY TERMS
1945- PRESENT
HONORS WORLD HISTORY II
1. United Nations
2. Univeral Declaration of Human Rights
3. Nuremburg Trials
4. Berlin Airlift
5. Cold War
6. “iron curtain”
7. Marshall Plan
8. NATO
9. Warsaw Pact
10. Berlin Wall
11. containment
12. Truman Doctrine
13. Douglas MacArthur
14. Nikita Khrushchev
15. Cuban Missile Crisis
16. Fidel Castro
17. Bay of Pigs Invasion
18. deterrence
19. Détente
20. SALT
21. perestroika
22. Glasnost
23. “Star Wars”
24. Mikhail Gorbachev
25. Boris Yeltsin
26. Iran-Contra Affair
27. Chinese Civil War
28. Sun Yat-sen
29. Guomintang (Kuomintang)
30. Chiang Kai-shek
31. Mao Zedong
32. Long March
33. Taiwan (Formosa)
34. Great Leap Forward
35. Tiananmen Square
36. Deng Xiaoping
37. Korean War
38. 38th Parallel
39. Pusan Perimeter
40. Yalu River
41. Vietnam War
42. Ho Chi Minh
43. Viet Cong
44. Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
45. Khmer Rouge
46. Pol Pot
47. Mohandas Gandhi
48. Mahatma
49. passive resistance
50. Pakistan
51. Bangladesh
52. Sri Lanka
53. Indira Gandhi
54. Jawaharlel Nehru
55. Mustafa Kemal
56. Ataturk
57. Muammar al-Qaddafi
58. Gamal Abdel Nasser
59. Suez Canal (Suez Crisis)
60. Zionism
61. Balfour Declaration
62. Gaza Strip
63. Six-Day War
64. PLO
65. Yasir Arafat
66. Golda Meir
67. Intifada
68. Anwar el-Sadat
69. Munich Olympics (Massacre)
70. Camp David Accords
71. Yitzhak Rabin
72. Oslo Accords
73. OPEC
74. Shah Pahlavi
75. Ayatollah Khomeini
76. Iranian Hostage Crisis
77. Saddam Hussein
78. Persian Gulf War
79. Osama Bin Laden
80. Jomo Kenyatta
81. Apartheid
82. Nelson Mandela
83. F.W. DeKlerk
84. Hutu/Tutsi genocide
85. Margaret Thatcher
86. Lech Walesa
87. Josip Tito
88. Slobodon Milosevic
89. Bosnian Crisis
90. Dayton Accords
91. Ferdinand Marcos
92. Corazon Aquino
93. Manuel Noriega
94. developed nation
95. developing nation
96. European Economic Community (EU)
97. NAFTA
98. WTO
99. IMF
100. Refugee
101. “guest workers”
102. Bioethics
103. Genetic engineering