The Modern Era (Module 8)

What led to the outbreak of the Cold War?

Who headed Communist China?

• Han Fei

• Sun Tzu

• Mao Zedong

• Hua Guofeng

What was the Five-Year plan?

• It involved bringing Chinese industries under government control, supporting their development, and creation farming cooperatives.

• It granted more freedom of speech to Chinese intellectuals, hoping that modern civil society would develop. But the government didn't like the criticism.

• It was an attempt at massive large-scale modernization. Mao sought to catch up with both the agricultural and industrial gains of Western nations. It failed and led to a Great Famine.

• It was the conter-part of the American Marshall-Plan, to rebuild the communist societies after World War II.

The Cold War is known as "cold" because it never scaled to a war between the US and the USSR. However, it was a "hot war" because ________

The decline of the USSR was caused by many different reasons, but not by:

• the Space race

• internal conflicts with the Soviets

• the fall of the Berlin War

• their declining influence in Eastern Europe

How did the Proxy Wars impact the World?

What are Trading Blocs?

• Trading Blocs are 2 groups of countries that were established during the Cold War. It states that the Communists would only trade with the USSR partners and capitalists would only trade with the US allies.

• A trading bloc is a treaty for trading continuously with the same countries, by creating monopolies

• Trading Blocs are agreements between different countries to decrease globalization and preserve their cultures

• A trading bloc is a group of countries that work together to reduce restrictions on trade between their countries. They are usually countries that share a geographic closeness.