World History chapter 26 quiz review ( I know it is a lots )
Where did the Chinese Nationalist troops flee with their families after the Communist takeover of the mainland? In what year was the people's republic of China established?
Taiwan; 1949
What policy declared that the United States would aid any free nation to resist Commmunist aggression? What is another name for this policy?
Truman Doctrine; containment
Who were the Communist guerrillas who terrorized South Vietnam?
Viet Cong.
Name three conservative Prime Ministers in Britain during the 1950s and early 1960s.
Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold Macmillan.
How many Chinese are estimated to have died under Mao's cruel regime?
about 40 million
What group did Mao Tse-tung set out to eliminate at the beginning of his regime?
independent middle-class Chinese farmers
What valuable mineral resource was discovered in Mexico in the late 1970s?
oil
Name the three main organs that make up the UN.
the General Assembly, the Security Council, and the Secretariat
What was one of the Communists' most brutal "wars of liberation"? When did this occur?
the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan; 1979
Who supplied the Chinese Communists with arms and ammunition and gave them the rich province of Manchuria?
the Soviets
What line divides North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
What conservative statesman led Italy to a slow recovery following WWII?
Alcide De Gasperi
What happened at the Bay of Pigs in 1961?
An American-trained force of some 1,600 exiled Cuban freedom fighters invaded Cuba.
Name two Communists who were involved in the founding of the UN.
Andrei Gromyko and Alger Hiss
When and where was the UN charter drafted? Where was the first official meeting of the UN General Assembly held?
April 25, 1945, in San Francisco, California; London
Name the two countries involved in the Falklands War.
Argentina and Great Britain. .
What became a symbol of Soviet oppression in Eastern Europe? In what year was it built?
Berlin Wall; 1961
Who helped establish the Fifth french Republic?
Charles de Gaulle
Who led the Chinese Nationalists? Who led the Chinese Communists? Which group did most of the fighting against the Japanese during WWII?
Chiang Kai-shek; Mao Tse-tung; Nationalists
In what year was the Berlin Wall built?
1961
In what year were U.S. combat troops sent to Vietnam? Who commanded them?
1965; General William C. Westmoreland
In what year was a cease-fire agreement signed? In what year did Saigon fall to the North Vietnamese? What name was given to Saigon?
1973; 1975; Ho Chi Minh City
In what year did the Communists begin to lose control of Eastern Europe?
1989
Who was the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"? Who was his chief opponent in developing the hydrogen bomb?
Edward Teller; J. Robert Oppenheimer
Who led the revolution that toppled the government of Cuba and established a Communist dictatorship in 1959?
Fidel Castro
Name the American general who imposed an embargo on the Nationalists after visiting China in 1945.
General George C. Marshall
What was the first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence? Who became the dictator of this country?
Ghana; Kwame Nkrumah
Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists? What colonial nation did his forces defeat in Indochina?
Ho Chi Minh; the French
Who was the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere? What country did she head?
Isabel Perón; Argentina
Name the two leaders who signed the Camp David Accords.
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat.
What happened to the Berlin Wall in November 1989? In what year were East and West Germany officially reunited?
It was officially opened, and young Germans beat down sections of it. 1990
Name three people who passed atomic bomb secrets to the Russians.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg and Klaus Fuchs
When did the Six-Day War take place? Who won and what were the results of this conflict?
June 1967; Israel. Israel occupied the Gaza Strip, the Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank
Name the leaders of the Communist regime installed by the Soviets in North Korea. Who was elected president of the Republic of (South) Korea?
Kim Il Sung; Syngman Rhee
Who succeeded Nikita Kruschev as leader of the Soviet Union?
Leonid Brezhnev
What was the first man-made satelite? Who was the first man in space? In what year did Apollo 11 go to the moon?
Sputnik I; Yuri Gagarin; 1969
In what year did the Soviet Union cease to exist as a nation? What is the name for the group of former Soviet republics that banded together?
1991; Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
In what year was the modern state of Israel established? Who were Israel's first president and prime minister?
1948; President Chaim Weizmann and Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion
In what year was the North Atlantic treaty signed? What organization did it form? What organization did Russia form to counter the North Atlantic Treaty?
1949; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Warsaw Pact
Give the years for the Korean War. What American general was placed in command of all U.S. and UN forces in Korea?
1950-1953; General Douglas MacArthur
What two men led India's independence movement? In what year did India become independent?
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru; 1947
Who became Britain's first woman prime minister?
Margaret Thatcher
What plan provided massive economic assistance to rebuild Europe after WWII?
Marshall Plan
What Iranian leader was deposed in 1979? Name the Muslim leader who took his place. What action did the Iranians take against America in Tehran?
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi (the Shah); Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini; captured the U.S. embassy in Tehran, teh Iranian capital, and took 63 Americans hostage
What city became the UN's permanent headquarters?
New York City
Who replaced Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union?
Nikita Krushchev.
Name the Eastern European nations dominated by the Soviet Union following WWII.
Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Czechoslovakia
What former Belgian colony became independent in 1960? Who led the pro-Communist forces there? country. What was this country renamed in 1971?
Republic of the Congo :Zaire
Name the Communist candidate who became President of Chile by popular vote in 1970. Who ended his Communist regime and assumed the office of president in his place?
Salvador Allende; Augusto Pinochet
What movement of Polish nationalists stood up to the Soviets in the 1980s? Who led this movement?
Solidarity; Les Walesa
Name the three major organs that make up the UN
The General Assembly, the Security ,Council Sdcretariat
What group overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua?
The Sandinistas
