Assignment 3 History 111

Prof. Kathleen Addison

Your final exam covers the 20^th century into the start of the 21^st. Choose 20 of the following and write one paragraph per term that covers the definition, context and significance.

Chiang Kai Shek Spanish Civil War

Act 231 October Revolution (Bolshevik)

NATO Marshall Plan

Decolonization Nikita Khrushchev

Fourth of May Movement Solidarity

The Long March The Cultural Revolution

Helsinki Accords Hiroshima

Cold War Sputnik

93^rd Parallel Viet Cong

Apartheid Globalization

Sandinistas Reaganomics

Mao Tse Dong Mikhail Gorbachev

John F. Kennedy Civil Rights Movements

Prague Spring Berlin Wall

Cesar Chavez European Union

Globalization World Trade Organization

NAFTA OPEC

Amnesty International United Nations

Kyoto Protocol Che Gueverra

Patrice Lumbaba The Balkan Crisis

Rwanda Darfur

1. How does Huntington’s thesis in “Clash” reflect the realities of the 21^st century political movements?

2. What are the successes or failures of the United Nations in the social/humanitarian crises of the late 20^th century?

3. Why does China’s Great Leap Forward represent a compromise?

4. Why did South Africa resist decolonization and how (specifically) did they maintain a policy of apartheid? (ooh there’s a big clue for your list)

5. Some historians argue that there is a connection between globalization and electronics/technology’s advancements in the digital age. Explain