1. Common Assessment Review

2. Boris Yeltsin 1st Russian president 1991-1999
Introduced shock therapy – sudden economic change from state-controlled economy to a free market economy.
Inflation
Unemployment
Homlessness

3. Space Race
Competition between countries related to achievement in space exploration
Democratic U.S. v. Communist Soviet Union
Soviet Union’s Sputnik: first manmade object in Earth’s orbit
United States’: launch Satellite creates NASA
Soviet Union: Luna 2 (space probe) lands on moon
United States: Wins race with Apollo 11 space mission. Man on the moon. “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.” –Neil Armstrong

4. Arms Race
Competition between countries related to achievement in weapon development
Cold War development between Soviet Union and U.S.
Nuclear Weapons
Conventional Forces in Europe treaty ended Arms Race when the Soviet Union resolved
S.A.L.T. - United States and Soviet Union agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals
U.S. President Truman created strategic defense initiative

5. Nuclear Impact on the World
Media channels interrupted programming to run a warning signal
Students practiced hiding under their desks as a drill
Fallout shelters were created
Nuclear fear existed in American citizens
Albert Einstein spoke against it and the dangers

6. Iron Curtain
Metaphor of the barrier between eastern and western Soviet Union.
Eastern – communism/Warsaw Pact
Western – non-communism/NATO
Fell in 1989 when communists abandoned one-party rule in eastern Europe

7. Preventing Spread of Communism
Containment – preventing Soviet Union influence
Truman Doctrine – U.S. policy sending aid to nations preventing communism
Eisenhower Doctrine – U.S. defend middle east against communist attack

8. Stalin’s Great Purge
Sergei Kirov, popular in the communist party, murdered 1935
Climate of Terror
Imprisonment and execution of communist leaders and party members who threatened Stalin’s power.

9. Review: Round 1 Part 1 Boris Yeltsin Space Race Arms Race Iron Curtain
Communism

10. Review: Round 1 Part 2 Shock Therapy Apollo 11 S.A.L.T. Containment
Great Purge

11. Tiananmen Square
1989 student-lead demonstration in Beijing with 1 million participants
Protest against one-party political market economy creating inflation
Goal = democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of press
Tiananmen Square Massacre – China’s government sent troops who crushed and shot demonstrators

12. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma)
Ascetic lifestyle based on prayer, fasting and meditation
Passive resistance against Rowlatt Acts
Indian independence movement leader
1947 India gained independence from European colonization

13. Kwame Nkrumah
Led Gold Coast independence movement from Britain in 1957
First Prime Minister and President of Ghana
Created a strong national educational program
Pan-African movement - the principle or advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa

14. Rape of Nanjing China
Victory achieved in Shanghai during the Sino-Japanese War
Imperial Japenese Army ascended on Nanjing
between 20,000 and 80,000 women were sexually assaulted
Leaders tried and convicted for war crimes

15. Pan-Arabism
is an ideology espousing the unification of the countries of North Africa and West Asia from the Atlantic Ocean to the Arabian Sea

16. Israel British controlled Palestine after WWI
Balfour Declaration - establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people
May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel
Palestine opposed to Jewish immigration and attacked Jews after Holocaust

17. Review: Round 2 Part 1 Tiananmen Square Ghandi Gold Coast Independence
Pan-Arabism
Rape of Nanjing

18. Review: Round 2 Part 2 Tiananmen Square Masacre Rowlatt Acts
Kwame Nkrumah
Pan-Africanism
Israel