Abeka 7th grade history chapter 24
Ayatollah Khomeini
Under whose rule did Iranian rebels capture the American embassy in Tehran
17th parallel
Vietnam was temporarily divided at what parallel
1961
What year did the U.S. government support an invasion of Cuba by Cuban rebels who hoped to hoped to overthrow Castro's regime
1945
What year was Korea divided
1949
What year was NATO organized
1990
What year was West and East Germany united
1953
What year was an armistice reached between North and South Korea
1962
What year was it discovered that the Soviets had established ballistic missile bases in Cuba
1961
What year was the Berlin Wall built
1991
What year was the Commonwealth of Independent States formed
1956
What year was the Hungarian Revolt
1945
What year was the Yalta Conference
Bangladesh
When East Pakistan declared its independence in 1971, what country did it become
David Ben-Gurion
When Israel became a nation in 1948, who was the leader
General Douglas MacArthur
When North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, who led to UN forces to defend South Korea
1945 in New York City
When and where was the United Nations organized
Tiananmen Square
Where did a million students and workers gather together in a great demonstration for freedom
Bay of Pigs
Where was the invasion of Cuba in 1962 thwarted
Francois Mitterrand
Who (of the Socialist party) became president in France in 1981 and was France's longest-serving president
Charles de Gaulle
Who became president of France in 1958
Winston Churchill
Who coined the term "iron curtain"
Batista
Who did Fidel Castro overthrow in 1959
Josip Tito
Who led an anti-Soviet rebellion in Yugoslavia
Chiang Kai-shek
Who led the Nationalist government in China
Lech Walesa
Who led the Solidarity movement in 1989
Konrad Adenauer
Who moved Germany toward a vigorous free market economy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Who ordered air strikes against North Vietnam after U.S. destroyers were allegedly fired upon by North Vietnamese torpedo boats
Fidel Castro
Who overthrew Batista in 1959
Boris Yeltsin
Who received the popular vote for president of the Russian republic in 1990
Nikita Khrushchev
Who replaced Stalin when he died
General MacArthur
Who said "Their is no substitute for victory."
Douglas MacArthur
Who served as the military governor of occupied Japan
Jimmy Carter
Who signed a treaty promising the Panamanians full control of the canal by the year 2000
Margaret Thatcher
Who was Britain's first woman prime minister and longest-ruling leader of Britain in the 20th century
Jawaharlal Nehru
Who was Mahatma Gandhi joined with after WWII
Mahatma Gandhi
Who was a Hindu nationalist and spiritual leader trained in London that had been working for India's independence
Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin
Who was in the Yalta Conference
Anwar el-Sadat
Who was the Egyptian leader who agreed to a peace treaty with Israel
Menachem Begin
Who was the Israeli leader who agreed to a peace treaty with Egypt
Mitsuo Fuchida
Who was the commander of the squadron of Japanese planes that bombed Pearl Harbor who later came to know Christ
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who was the famous Russian writer imprisoned for exposing the cruelties of Communism
Neil Armstrong
Who was the first person to step on the moon
Mao Tse-tung
Who was the leader of the Communist revolutionaries in China
in a stalemate
How did the Korean War end
38th parallel
In 1950, what boundary line did the North Korean troops cross to invade South Korea
1965
What year did Marines become the first U.S. combat troops sent to Vietnam
1973
What year did South Vietnam, the United States, and North Vietnam sign a cease-fire agreement
1991
What year did every Eastern European nation considered itself independent of the Soviet Union
1989
What year did the Berlin Wall come down
1950
What year did the North Korean troops cross the 38th parallel boundary line and invaded South Korea
Poland
What (section of a) country did Roosevelt give Stalin because of Stalin's promise of entering the war against Japan
the People's Republic of China
What Communist regime did Mao Tse-tung and Chou En-lai establish
Third World countries
What are neutral nations not yet aligned with either freedom or Communism called
Ghana
What became the first black African nation to achieve its independence
Saigon
What city fell to Communist forces and the Communists gained complete control of Vietnam
Berlin
What city in West Germany was divided into eastern and western sections
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia
What countries did the "people's republic" government establish itself in
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania
What countries did the U.S.S.R. claim in 1940
Yugoslavia and Albania
What countries established independent Communist governments but maintained close ties to the Soviet Union
Great Britain, France, Germany, and Italy
What countries were the major powers during the Cold War
Czechoslovakia
What country did the Soviets send tanks into to stop a trend of greater freedom for the people
Nicolae Ceausescu
What dictator made it hard for the Romanians to gain freedom
passive resistence
What did Gandhi advocate
Nationalist government
What government did Chiang Kai-shek establish
détente
What is a lessening of tension or hostility between nations called
Panama Canal
What is the important shipping channel built by the U.S. to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans
the Marshall Plan
What is the plan that stated the United States would provide economic assistance to help European nations recover from World War II
containment or the Truman Doctrine
What is the policy that says the United States would provide economic aid to any free country to help it resist Communist aggression
the Cold War
What is the war fought not with military weapons but with words and diplomacy
Grenada
What island nation did Fidel Castro plan to take over and use it as a military base to invade South America
Operation Airlift
What operation flew in food and supplies to West Berlin
NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What organization was made to combat Communism
Richard Nixon
What president decided to get the U.S. out of Vietnam
John F. Kennedy
What president failed to keep his promise to supply air cover to the Cuban patriots in the invasion of Cuba in 1961
Strategic Defense Initiative program
What program was designed to destroy enemy missile warheads in flight
Muammar al-Qaddafi
What radical leader did Ronald Reagan punish for acts of terrorism
Falklands War
What war started when Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands
the Reagan Doctrine
What was Ronald Reagan's belief in stopping Communism before it enslaved a country called
Reaganomics
What was Ronald Reagan's system referred to by liberals
Balfour Declaration
What was made in 1917 that expressed Great Britain's desire to establish Palestine as a national home for the Jews
July 20, 1969
What was the exact date Armstrong stepped on the moon
November 9, 1989
What was the exact date when the border of West and East Germany opened
Berlin Wall
What was the first wall built to keep people inside their country instead of keeping enemies out
Sputnik I made by the Soviet Union
What was the world's first man made satellite and who made it
Red Guards
What were the gangs called in China
1949
What year did Chiang Kai-shek's army have to flee to Taiwan
1959
What year did Fidel Castro overthrow Batista
1948
What year did Israel become a nation again
1953
What year did Joseph Stalin die
1976
What year did Mao Tse-tung die
