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