2.
Communist
Capital: Beijing
Leaded by Mao Zedong
Supported by Russians
Communism as Govt.
System
Socialism as economic
policy
Nationalist
Capital: Taipei
Leaded by Chiang-Kai
Shek
Supported by United
States
Republican-Democratic
Govt. system.
Capitalist Economic
System
3. Communist
RepublicanGovernment under
Democratic Govt.
Mao Zedong:
system under
Chiang:
Hundred Flowers
Campaign
Land to the Tiller
Program
Great Leap Forward
Great Proletarian
Cultural Revolution
Communist Government
under Deng Xiaoping:
Four Modernizations
Campaign
4.
South Korea
Democratic
Government System
Dr. Syngman Rhee
1st Korean war
Aided by the United
Nations
Capital: Seoul
North Korea
Communism as
Government System
Kim Il-Sung
1st Korean war
Aided by the Union of
Soviet Socialist
Republics (USSR)
Pyongyang
5. 1st Korean war ended with an Armistice
Physical division of Korea into South
and North Korea
Creation Korean Demilitarized Zone
(DMZ)
Second Korean War
Second Korean War ended with a truce
6.
7. India
Pakistan
Indian Nationalist
Muslim League
Movement
President:Jawaharlal
Nehru
Capital: New Delhi
Governor General:
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
Capital: Karachi
8. 1st Indo-Pakistan War: Control over Kashmir and
Jammu
Ended with a plebiscite
2/3 of Kashmir and included Jammu ceded to India, 1/3
of Kashmir to Pakistan.
2nd Indi-Pakistan War: Unsatisfied with the land
distribution.
3rd Indo- Pakistan War: Eastern Pakistan wants
Independence.
Republic of Bangladesh
9. Balfour Declaration of 1947
Republic of Israel on May 14, 1948
Arab league staged attack against Israel
Israel won against Arabs
After the war Arab states declared an economic embargo
against Israel
Egyptian Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered the control
over the Suez canal and closing of Tihran Strait
Suez or Sinai War
Egypt Dual allegiance to the USSR and US.
UN Emergency Forces
10. Third Arab- Israeli War
Israel Won
Forth Arab-Israeli War/ Ramadan War
Israel Won
11. Major Conflict of Iran and Iraq:
Racial Conflict, Religious Conflict, Border Conflict
Iraqi President: Saddam Hussein, Iranian President:
Ayatollah Khoemeni
The battle ended as a draw or stalemate
12. Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of
stealing oil and asking for amnesty.
Iraq invaded Kuwait
UN Security Council ordered Iraq to withdraw
32 countries declared economic embargo and sent
troops.
Ceasefire was declared by Feb. 28, 1991
Hussein assassination plot against the US President
13. North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Headed by Ho Chi
Prime Minister Ngo
Minh
Supported by China
and Russia and
Vietnamese Buddhist
Dinh Diem
Supported by United
States and Catholics
14. South East Asia Treaty Organization
(SEATO)
Tonkin Resolution
Tet offensive
Withdrawal of US troops
South Vietnam surrendered on April
30, 1975
Capital: Saigon
15. Mikhael Gorbachev
Denounced involvement in armed conflicts
Implementation of glasnost and perestroika
Ended Authoritarianism in the central govt. and
transferred power to local govt. units.
Allowed semi-privatization of goods
Right to direct purchase of Goods
Freedom of Speech
Formalized the disintegration of the USSR