ABEKA WORLD HISTORY AND CULTURES TEST 11

met with Menachem Begin at Camp David

Anwar el Sadat

what country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982?

Argentina

president of the Russian Republic

Boris Yeltsin

included agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula

Camp David Accords

first president of Israel?

Chaim Weizmann

leader of the Free French government during WWII

Charles de Gaulle

what country brutally crushed a demonstration for freedom at Tiananmen Square?

China

discuss the outcome of the Chinese civil war, including the roles of Japan, the Soviet Union, and the United States in your explanation. Include events before, during, and immediately after WWII.

Communist forces under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung began fighting against Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government several years before the Japanese invaded China. When the Japanese invaded, the Nationalists and the Communists formed an alliance against them, but the Nationalists did most of the fighting. After WWII, civil war resumed. Mao's troops were well-equipped to fight, because the Soviet Union gave them weapons and Manchuria. Although the United States had aided the Nationalists before and during WWII, after WWII American journalists began to support Mao; therefore, the United States attempted to negotiate peace between the two factions. when Chiang Kai-shek refused to form a coalition government, the US stopped aiding the Nationalist forces. As a result, the Nationalists were unable to withstand the Communists and were forced to flee to Taiwan. Mainland China became a Communist nation.

what did Mao Tse-tung launch in China to purge China of "counter-revolutionists" and foreign influences?

Cultural Revolution

"Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"

Edward Teller

T/F SADDAM HUSSEIN was the leader of Ethiopia overthrown by Communists

F, Haile Selassie I

T/F NGO DINH DIEM was the dictator of Communist North Vietnam after Vietnam was divided

F, Ho Chi Minh

T/F the Shah of IRAQ was ousted by rebels in 1979

F, Iran

T/F General EISENHOWER said "There is no substitute for victory"

F, MacArthur

T/F president Reagan and BORIS YELTSIN signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987

F, Mikhail Gorbachev

three major organizations of the United Nations

General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat

first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence

Ghana

"openness"

Glasnot

what island did Fidel Castro attempt to use as a military base to invade the South American mainland?

Grenada

provided the legal justification for US military involvement in the Vietnam conflict

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

president Nixon's assistant for national security affairs

Henry Kissinger

president of Argentina

Juan Perón

West German leader

Konrad Adenauer

succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union

Leonid Brezhnev

first woman to become prime minister of Great Britain

Margaret Thatcher

dictator of Yugoslavia that branded his own form of Communism

Marshal Tito

another name for the European Recovery Program

Marshall Plan

general that replaced MacArthur as commander of the Allied forces in Korea

Matthew B. Ridgeway

Communist leader who loosened Soviet control of Eastern Europe

Mikhail Gorbachev

became the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin's death

Nikita Khrushchev

"restructuring"

Perestroika

Italian Communist terrorist group

Red Brigades

limited the production of nuclear arms

SALT

Communist leader of Chile

Salvador Allende

Communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua

Sandinistas

movement of Polish nationalists

Solidarity

a passenger airliner from ____, KAL 007, was shot down in Soviet airspace in 1983

South Korea

T/F East and West Germany were officially reunited on October 3, NINETEEN NINTEY (1990)

T

T/F in 1991, most of the former Soviet republics banded together to form the COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

T

T/F in April 1986, a nuclear reactor accident at CHERNOBYL killed 23 people

T

T/F the African National Congress was influential in SOUTH AFRICA

T

T/F the Ho Chi Minh Trial was a North Vietnamese supply trail that ran through CAMBODIA

T

military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Warsaw Pact

established the PLO

Yassir Arafat

what was the Republic of the Congo renamed in 1971?

Zaire

policy of racial segregation

apartheid

"reducing tension"

détente

what statement BEST describes the Reagan Doctrine?

it was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a country

what was the MAJOR cause of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War?

policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their resources to win

what BEST explains why the nations of Eastern Europe were freed?

the Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from the West

what is MOST true about the Tet Offensive?

the Tet Offensive was a victory for the Americans, but the US media portrayed it as a loss