SE History Vocab

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Red Guards

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Groups of militant university and high school students formed into paramilitary units as part of the Cultural Revolution.

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Segregation

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Separation of groups of people with differing characteristics, often taken to connote a condition of inequality.

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Democracy

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System of government in which laws, policies, leadership and major undertakings of a state or other polity are directly or indirectly decided by the people.

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Containment Policy

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Strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States beginning in the late 1940’s post WWII in order to check the expansionist policy of the Soviet Union and Communism.

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Vietnam War

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A protracted conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam and its allies in South Vietnam against the government of South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States.

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Mao Zedong

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Chinese Marxist theorist, soldier, and statesman who led the communist revolution. Mao was the leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from 1935 to 1976.

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Douglas MacArthur

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U.S general who commanded the Southwest Pacific Theatre in WWII, administered postwar Japan during the Allied occupation that followed, which was primarily carried out by the U.S.

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Gandhi

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Indian lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the Indian Independence Movement against British rule.

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Tiananmen Square

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Series of protests and demonstrations in China in the spring of 1989 that culminated on the night of June 3–4 with a government crackdown on the demonstrators in Tiananmen Square in Beijing.

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Colonialism

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A political-economic phenomenon whereby various European nations explored, conquered, settled, and exploited large areas of the world.