Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Regional Studies
(Be able to identify in a world map, the countries studied in the course)
Characters
USA.
Leonid Brezhnev: Breshnev Doctrine. USSR had the right to intervene in any
satellite country. Invasion of Czechoslovakia 1968. Detente Doctrine.
Marshall B. Tito: Tito declared the foundation of Socialist Yugoslavia, in 1945. It was
a federation composed by Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and Macedonia.
Mao Tse Dong: Chinese Communist Party. Got support by promising land to the
poor. Created the Peoples Republic of China.
Rosa Parks: Mother of the Civil Movement. She seated in the back of a bus and refused
to go to prision for that.
Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989) - Cuts to the welfare state and lowering of taxes. He
promoted a program of conservative revolution.
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George W. Bush (2001 - 2009) - World Trade Center attack and Afghanistan
invasion.
Bill Clinton (1993 - 2001) - gave a conservative shift in his policy, signs NAFTA.
Pinochet (1974 - 1990) - Chile, led the military dictatorship known as the
period of the military regime that overthrew Allende.
Anastasio Somoza (1974 - 1979) - Nicaragua, military dictator and politician that
remained authoritarian and absolutist power.
Fulgencio batista:
Yassir Arafat:
president of PLO
The Oslo Accords were finalized when he (from Israel) and Yaser Araffat (from
Palestine) shook hands in the White House
Gamal Nasser
Anuar el Sadat
Nelson Mandela
Frederick De Klerk
South African president in 1990 that allowed the release of Nelson Mandela
and the legalization of ANC
Lech Walesa
he created solidiarty
John Paul II
Ghandi
Definitions
Terrorism; Acts that endanger life and/or property in a country, conducted by selfappointed sub-State
groups for political reasons.
Cold war: The signing of the Warsaw Pact .
The launching of Sputnik (first artificial satellite).
The Bay of Pigs Invasion.
The Cuban Missile Crisis.
- Private, do not seek profits for government, try to solve problems.(civil organizations that deals
with issues of international interest)
- Organization formed by states.(deals with issues that affects its members)
Types of international systems:
unipolar- distribution of power in which one state exercises most of the cultural, economic, and military
influence
bipolar- distribution of power in which two states have the majority of economic, military, and cultural
influence
multipolar- distribution of power in which more than two nation-states have nearly equal amounts of
military, cultural, and economic influence.
Neoliberalism- Set of economic policies used to characterize the economic ideology behind
globalization.
Arab Spring- Series of protests that arose in the Northern Africa and the rest of the Arab world in 2011.
Caused by the difficult political and economic situation.
Doctrines/Treaties/organisms
(Be able to identify the countries involved, year, main events and outcome of the following conflicts)
Truman Doctrine: Policy that established American involvement in any issue that required assisting
countries to fight Soviet expansionism.
Marshall Plan: Economic aid to Europe , helping its economy to rectivate.
Warsaw Pact: Created by the USSR to face the NATO.
COMECON: Created by the USSR, to counter the Marshall Plan.
NATO: Is a military alliance created to resist soviet agression.
Black Panters: Black revolutionary socialist organization
Brezhnev Doctrine: USRR had the right to intervene on any of its countries
Keiretsu model: Implied that the same products generated by the primary sector would be used by the
secondary sector, and commercialized by the tertiary sector.
Flying Goose model: Economic model employed by Japan in the second half of the XX century. It
implied economic integration with its neighbors, but establishing levels, placing Japan at the top.
IMF: The IMF's stated goal was to assist in the reconstruction of the world'sinternational payment system
postWorld War II.
UN: The organization was created following the Second World War to prevent another such conflict.
McCarthyism: McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations, subversion, or treason without proper
regard for evidence
Alliance for Progress: President John F. Kennedy proposes a 10-year, multibillion-dollar aid program for
Latin America. The program came to be known as the Alliance for Progress and was designed to improve
U.S. relations with Latin America, which had been severely damaged in recent years.
Sandinistas: Social democratic political party in Nicaragua.
Contras: Counterrevolutionary guerrillas groups of Nicaragua.
OAS: Organization of American States, an organization formed in 1948for the purpose of coordinated
action ineconomic, political, and military matters.
Contadora Group: A group of Latin American nations, formed in Jan 1983, to help solve the problems of
the region. (Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Venezuela)
Banana Republics: The small countries in the tropics, whose economies are largerly dependent on fruit
exports, tourism, and foreign investors.
School of the Americas: is a combat training school for Latin American soldiers.
Liberation Theology: 20th century Christian theology, emphasizing the Biblical anddoctrinal theme of
liberation from oppression, whether racial, sexual, economic, or political.
United Fruit Company:
Camp David: Presidential retreat with guests quarters and conference facilities.
Agreement: An arrangament that is accepted by all parties to a transaction. OR a contract or other
document delineating such an arrangement.
Declaration of Principles: Agreement signed Sep/13/1993, between Israel and the PLO, affirming
mutual recognition and legitimacy.
Perestroika: The policy of economic and governmental reform instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the
Soviet Union during the mid-1980s.
Glasnots: The declared public policy within the Soviet Union of openly and franklydiscussing economic
and political realities: initiated under MikhailGorbachev in 1985.
EU: European Union, an association of European nations formed in 1993 for the purpose of achieving
political and economic integration.
PLO: Palestine Liberation Organization, an organization for several Arab groups dedicated to the
recovery of Palestine from the state of Israel.
Hamas :Radical Muslim organization that seeks the destruction of Israel.
Hezbollah: Radical Muslim organization that seeks the destruction of Israel.
Taliban: A terroriist group that heats USA ,they are in Pakistan
Al-Qaeda: Terrosist gruoup that heats USA,the one thet maked the terrorist attack of the twin towers,(bin
laden was their lider)
FARC: (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia)
Resolution 242: call for the peaceful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict through
territorial compromise. The acceptance of the Resolutions by Arab elements indicates their
recognition of Israel.
Brigade 2506:The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban
refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was
an utter failure.
Dtente: Directed to improve the relation with The United States (Richard Nixon).
Attempt to limit weapons production.
Facts
Arab-Israeli wars:
a.
1948 war,independence war
- The British withdrew from Israel.
- Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Iraq attacked Israel; Israel won.
- Palestine was never created. - Jordan was compensated by annexing the West Bank
b. 1956 war,suez canal war
- President Nasser (Egypt) denied access to the Canal to Israel, Britain and France.
- Soviets armed Egypt, France armed Israel.
- Israel won the war. No changes in the map.
c.
6 Days war ,1967
- PLO formed by Yassir Arafat (1964)
- Nasser closes the Suez Canal, and demands the UN forces to retreat from Egypt.
- Israel destroyed Egypts air force with a surprise attack.
- Israel won the war; won the Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jerusalem.
d. Yom Kippur war 1973
- Sadat proposes peace to Israel in exchange of having back the Sinai land.
9. Soccer War: between El Salvador and Honduras mainly due to problems with immigration, it was
sparked by rioting during the second North American qualifying round for the 1970 World Cup.
10. Korean war: that began as a civil war between North and South Korea, but the conflict soon became
international when, under U.S. leadership, the United Nations joined to support South Korea and the
Peoples Republic of China (PRC) entered to aid North Korea. The war left Korea divided and brought the
Cold War to Asia.
11.The Islamic Revolution: occurred in 1979, in Iran. The reason for the revolution was that many
Iranians disliked the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Ayatollah Khomeini organized protests to overthrow
the government. Khomeini became the new leader of Iran. The government was made a republic and a
theocracy.
12. The Soviet war in Afghanistan (invasion) from December 1979-1989. Part of the Cold War, it was
fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen.