History Final Study Guide

Potsdam conference:
1949
2 Events
1. Loosing China
a. Mao wins the civil war depite the 2 billion funding of usa to
chaing kai shek
b. Nationalist party retreats to Tawain, USA reconzie this as the
leading party of china
c. Lifts the Chinese exclusion act
2. Russia Gets the bomb
Truman plan
Truman Doctrine: Unchecked aggression and unwillingness to defend borders,
allied peoples
War on communism
Marshall Plan
Millions of dollars pumped into Europe and Japan to help aid after the
destruction of WWII
Supplies Technology and Food
Mao Zedong
Communist leader in china adapted to the Chinese peasant
Focus on rural working class
Wins the civil war and Chaing flees to tawain even though mao was out
supplied
Leader of peoples republic of china
Great leap forward=famine=retire
Tired of retirement, and a play scrutitinexed his work
Gang of 4
Clense china of all anti communist
Cultural Genocide begins throught the culturl revolution
Wrote US imperialist is the most enemy of world
People republic of china
Mao run this
Anti traditional china
Clense china of all anti communist
Tawain
The island that chaing kai shek retreats to
Nationaist party
USA reconizes this instead
Tolitaritsim
Great leap forward
Mao revolution china
Great famine
Utter deciaster forced into retirement
Cutlrual revolution
Mao does this after come back from his retirement
Utilize the youth for his movement known as the red guards using quotes
from red book
Temples attacked and burned

Universitys
City halls
Muesums
Chinese new year all banned
Deng Xiaoping
After Cultural revolution comes to power in China
Focus all agenda on economic reforms
Promote internal education
Eased tentions with east and south china
Intellectual transfers
Met with Kissinger and Nixon to ease cold war tentions
Economic plans were a success but limited to political
Tianamen square
During deng rule
Flushed with economic success but not happy about political arrest
College students and urban workers align ]
Call for democratic reforms and removal of Chinese government
Fired upon by the army
Massacure stops the protest
Unable to move the urban and rual population this was nothing compared to
the days of mao
Salvador Allende
Elected president on socialist platform in chile
USA starts to imidieatly undermine the presidency
Puts embargos on their exports to put stress on their economy
Massive strikes on chilie but he still remains popular
Usa surround Chile government and fire upon them
Cia coup=commited sucisde so they say

Augusto Pinochet put into power as USA backed military leader

Corrupt
Pinochet
Placed in Chile after the Sucide of Salvador andelle
Pro economy with usa
Military rule
Lots of disassapearances
Enclave economies
Latin America
Guatamela, vanisuela, mexico ect
Economic sector islolated from the national economy at large
Extreme isolation to partial integration
Guatamala=the extreme
Bananana production owned by the UFC
Jacabo Guzman
The banana UFC had created such a population of displaced
guatamelons =revolution
He was brought in on the effort of land reform
He begins Decree 900
Decree 900

Guzman initiated it
Re seieze of land
672 acres will be bought back with compensation
Compensation based on tax reconrd
UFC had cooked the books= land worth more
UFC demand more for the price of land
UFC run to USA Govt for protection because of 900
USA authorixes PBS Success, which overthroughs the regime
PBS Success
Overthoughs the Guzman regieme
CIA military coop to get rid of him because of 900
John foster Dulles
Secertary of State
Previously worked with UFC
Brother was the CIA : Allen Dules
Lobbied Eighnhower to get involved
Bay of pigs
A attempt to overthrough Castro
Try to counterreolvuion cuba
This leads to the Cuban missle crisis
Cuban Missle Crisis
USA moves missles into Russia back yard: Turkey and Italy
USA failure of Bay of Pigs is opportunity of Krustev to put missles in
USA Cuba backyard
Thought this would make USA concede W. Berlin
Missles were a powerful deterant, but MAD if USA invades
Kenedy and Kristrov meet and agree to disarm
Cuba agree not to hold missles if USA never invades again
CIA Contra Alliance
CIA drug trafficking
Sandanistas take over the nicaragruan government under socialist
USA Fund and train the contras against the Sandanists
TO fund them set up a cocaine run in America that was discovered
Used funds to sell and aid Iran
Geneva Accords 1954
Vietnam layers of conflict
Communist vs non communist, nationalist, Roman catholics vs.
Buddhist
Civil War Breaks out in Vietnam
After WWII Japan surrender it wanted Chaing Ki Shek=no
Give it back to France to control it
Ho Chi Men declare their independence
French Idochien War:
South=French loyalist
North=China USSR Backed with Ho Chi Men
Dien Bien Phu=defeat of France

France pulls out

Partioned? Who is for and who is against
USA against and S. Vietnam
Why communism-fight against Truman Doctrine
Dien Bien Phu
Defeat of France by BVietmnh backed by China and USSR
Makes france pull out but pulls the USA in
Vietminh
Group of independence thinkers in China opposed the Japanese when
occupied
Fought the French during the French Inochiene War
Ho Chi Men
Ho Chi Minh
Wrote Declaration of independence
His writings started the French Indo War
Supplied by USSR and China
Independece guy
Ngo Dinh Diem
Republic of Vietnam leader backed by USA
ECO dependent on Western and USA trade
Was a catholic who prosecuted and killed Buddhist population
Very corrupt lost the support of the people
This tension leaked into the north escalated the tensions between the
two
Commited to indirect help to south through the CIA
Unstable: viet cong start to attack the s. Vietnam military
Military USA Coup kills him
Viet Cong
The south Vietnam communist who attack the S. Vietnam military
Gorilla tactics
Tet Offense
Vet Kong launch a attack agasint the South. Surprise
Major attack that failed
Devastation on both sides
Loss of confidence of public in Vietnam war=lead to the my lai
My Lai
Charlie company charged with getting rid of the rest of Viet kong
resistance in area after
Tet offense
Faced no direct fighting but faced with gurellia kong fights 28 killed
Started to go crazy take a toll when approached the village of Son My
500 plus killed raped and burned
Army try to cover it up
Journalist caught it on tape
Last time they allowed there huge public upraoar
Pol Pot

Revolutionary leader of Cambodia

Communist
Issued the khmer rouge cambonian genocide
Khmer Rouge
Allied with north Vietnam and Viet Kong
Led by Pol Pot
Cambonian Genocide
Mass murdering
Take children and raise under communial state, they come back and
kill torture own
Parents
USA do not get involved because of Vietnam
Vietnamese dispose of this party when invade Cambodia
Sukarno
Wrote Speech at the opening of Bandung Conference
Nationalalsit leader in east indies against the dutch
First president
Non-Alignment
Believed cold war was a new form of communism
Dalai Lama
Nobel Peace Prize lecture-wrote=Tenzin Gyatso
Leader of Tibet
Exiled out of Tibet because of communist take over
Trys to appeal to Un about the problems with Tibet til this day
Simple monk
George Kennan
The long telegram
One of the first cold war warriors
Created the containment policy
His work used in the Truman doc. But said it was misused
Containment
By George Kennan
Used in Truman plan
To stop the spread of communism where ever it should arise
Bandung Conference
By Sukarno
Non alignment in cold war
Non-Aligned Movement
Bandung Confernece
Non alignment with the communist states
Sukarno
Winston Churchill
Iron curtain speech/The sinews of peace speech
Speech in winstester
End of WWII peace time and entering a new war the cold war
Divide Europe into different sectors
Most notable was berlin war
Iron Curtian

Winston Churchill
The divide of the Eurpope of soviet non connect with the western states
Biggest example was the berlin wall in Germany
Nehru
Wrote Tyst with destiny
United India Goals with Ghandi
This speech marks the independence of India, but bitter sweet the partion of
india
Serve as prime minister
Tryst with Destiny
Wrote by Nehru
India Indpencene speech before the partion of india
Ghandi
Home rule or Sawaraj with Nehru of india to a united democratic india
People feared that they would suppress the minority
Did not partion, but Pakistan and india created: reguegee crisis
Hindu assassinated him
India
British rule over the state until after WWII
They increased tentions between the hindu-muslim tentions
When the British left they drew a line to separate India into india for the
hindu and Pakistan
Muslims
1947 partion divided many communities leaving people on the wrong side
Refugee crisis
12 mill fled
Massacures ect
Most war intensive border in the world
Patrice Lumumba
Wrote Speech at the ceremony of the proclamation of the congos
independence
Leader of the freedom of independence from Belgium
Most repressive colonial rules
Was the first dem elected president
Overthrown by USA and Beligum backed coup
CIA Allen Dulles order it because of the ties with soviet union
In speech talk about the racism of colonical rule
Kwame Nkrumah
Neo colonialism the last stage of imperialism
European and American control over the developing world
New stage of imperialism
Relationship between the rich and the poor
Usa believe to be pro communism
Enoch Powell
Wrote: I seem to see the river tiber foaming with much blood
British Parliament
Said that post colonial imiigration would create racial and cultural conflict in
Britian
Ignores the explotation of England on other colonies
Anaconda Copper

Had business in chile being affected by salvado Allende

Helped with the assignation of Allende
Said on basis of communism and socialist
Not allowing the business thrive in chile
Salvador Allende
Was the elected president of chile
Moderate marx and friends with castro
Threatened American business intrests of cooper
A coup backed by Nixon and Kissinger assisted by Pinochet lead to his killing
in palace
Tito
Non alignment movement of Yugoslavia
Chief leader of the non alignment movement with Nassar, Nahru ext
Iran-Contra Affair
After the Iranian revolution
USA support Iraq who fight iran
But then USA support the anit contras
We pay for the support of contras by selling irms to Iran
We are fighting against Iran by supporting Iraq
Domino Theory
Eisnhower used it to say if one country falls then they all fall around it
Used in cold war poltics
Reverse domino theory
Fall of the berlin wall in 89=the all states leading up to Russia declare
independence
Gorbachev
Single guy who ended the cold war because what he did not do
Two policies : Glasnost and perestroika
Two polices were to end the corruption and get people more invested
Was handed a crumbling union USSR
Let communism and cold war go with no attempt to stop
Believed in communism
Nobel peace prize
Glasnost
Gorbachev policy
Ability to aquire and receive info about past USSR curroptions
Open all official and unofficial docs of ussr
Admit crimes
Try to Invest people and show them there is change
Perestrokia
Gorbachev
Allow the satilate states more independence
Allow them to coordinate themselves no longer control their economy
De center eco control
After this people go independent as wish for poltical control as well
Osama bin Laden`
Wrote: Declaration of Jihad against the americans occupying the land of the
two holiest
Campign agasint Iraq the Saudi gov allowed USA troops to be stationed in
kingdom

Saw this as western incrusion

Koran references, historical and contemeery events as evidence
Potsdam Conference
Meeting of bg three stalin church and Truman to decide what to do with the
fallen Germany
Divided into three
Japan conditions of servender= mention of the bomb
Arab Spring
Nassar invisioned modern united Arab world
Promote culture not the religion of Islam
Seperation of Church of state
Muslim brotherhood dislike him Sunni
In line with the majority of Egypt sunni
Non alignment movement for Pan Arabism in Middle east to stay out of cold
war
Enemy and concern for USA socialist nature
Fall apart because unable to keep it together
6 day war ect with Isreal
Nelson Mandela
South Africa apartheid movement
First elected president
Non alignment movement
Security general
An ideal to which I am prepeared to die?
Jomo Kenyatta
Kenya nationalism
Studied in britian
First president of kenya until his death
Facing Mt. Kenya
French Algeria
First colonized in the 1830
Two Groups: The French and the local muslims
Local people displaced in favor of the immigrant French
National liberation front is the rebel group that grow in number and strength
First aimed at only the military, and they do small reforms not really do
anything
FLN increases violence against French immigrants mass kids women ext
French agree to their independence
FLN National Liberation Front
French Algeria
Rebel group against the French in Algeria
Compossed of local rebels muslims
Violence mass against the French Algerians
Cocaine epidemic
SAndanistas take over the Nicaragun government
We support the Contras
Needed the funding to support the contras so go through cocaine
Cocaine grown in Columbia shipped through nicawagran

To inner USA cities such as USA los angelos

USA wage racial war tward the people demand in inner cities
Sandinistas
Social revolutionaries that take over the nicawagren government against the
contras
USA fund their enemy the contras through cocaine
Maquiladora
The factories along the American and Mexican border that emply lots of
women
El paso
Pass the border daily to work at fcactories such as ford and GM
Must take buss to pass the border, buss run on tight schedule
Mass graveyards of these women who miss the buss
No one knows what happens to them
Kurt Vonnegut
The babies quote to be kind
Best American author
God bless you mr. rosewater
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall first outward sign of communism
Tinnamen square
1991
End of the USSR in Europe
This marked the official end of communism in Europe
Grobev did not contend it
Silicon Valley
Made in think tanks here in CA
Needs raw materials to make ipods from latin America Africa ect
Labor for indo china ext
How to work the thing = s. asia call center
Buying Games
To go into the store and pretend that you were going to buys something only
to make a excuse that you could not too big ect
This was used in the story as way to demonstrate all the stuff that they could
not have
Musem reference
Collecting and Recycling
Way she refers to surveing in a communist state
Communist country there are not many things that you can through away
Ecampel of the perfect eco home
BUT out of fear for the future
You recycle all the items you have by using them till you cannot no more
Then when you cannot use them you turn them into something else
EX: panty house
Only after through experimentation that it can not be used to you through it
away
Collect on the degree of communism or povertiy
Catagories: General Items
Items normal countries through away
Things that may disapearL coffee flour rope ext

Collect cause never know what available in store the next day
Used to show why people thought weird mop a floor with a broom with a shirt
on it
Human beings are an endangered species
There was a lady that was dressed in fur coats and two boys were making fun
of her
Said think of them dripping blood to make that coat
They were good because they were more level with the world
But bad because they were so aggressive
They need to realize that not only is it animals that are in the wake of
extentions but people
Need to realize that the rest of the world is not as promised as they are
Homeless professor
In the story she is conflicted on who is right to give to then goes into detail
the problem with this
In her, in end finds that it is easier not to judge and better just to give
because bigger problem at
home
She live in a social delima because everyone is supposed to be qual there are
not supposed to be any homeless they are not supposed to exist
But every Sunday there is a man dressed up nice who plays violen for couple
of hours because
used to be a music teater but his pension is not enough
to sustain life
One way of society caught on a fence because they are a product of
capitalism but supposed to be taken care of by the system the are orfins of
socialism