4º CC.SS. - TEMA 11 - Review

Define key concepts: Marshall Plan, arms race, non-alignment, Iron Curtain, decolonisation, superpower.
• A regime of racial segregation against most of the black population:
• The Soviets intended to keep European countries under its control:
• Economic assistance programme for Europe:
• A direct line between the White House and the Kremlin:
• The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces:
• Group of states that are not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc:
• Boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II until the end of the Cold War:
• Dismantlement of the colonial empires:
• State with a dominant position:
• Situation in which two countries try to have more and stronger weapons than each other:

Identify key figures: John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, Fidel Castro, Eisenhower.
• Revolutionary guerrilla who took power in Cuba:
• American president who established a new diplomacy based on discussions and agreements:
• British politician who invented the term ‘Iron Curtain’:
• Founder of the State of Israel:
• American president who ended the persecution of those suspected of sympathising with communism:
• Vietnamese leader who declared independence:
• Soviet leader who denounced the mistakes and crimes of Stalinism:
• First leader of North Korea:
• Palestinian leader of the PLO:
• US general who led the troops sent to Korea:
• Indian activist who was the leader of the Indian independence:

Explain the difference: NATO /Warsaw Pact, colonialism /neocolonialism, GDR /FRG, North Korea /South Korea, North Vietnam/South Vietnam.
• Military alliance which united the USSR and eastern Europe:
• East Germany:
• Military cooperation organisation to defend against any foreign aggression under the leadership of Washington:
• The Soviets intended to keep European countries under its control:
• Practice of domination, which involves the subjugation of one people to another:
• The United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces:
• Control of less-developed countries by developed countries:
• Pro-American Vietnam:
• Central territory of a colonial empire:
• Capitalist Korea:
• West Germany:
• Communist Korea:
• Communist Vietnam:
• Territory under the immediate complete political control of a state: