Chapter 33 (history 152)
Which of the following happened immediately after the Berlin airlift?
The non-Soviet sectors merged and formed the nation of West Germany.
former colony of Southern Rhodesia that gained independence in 1980
Zimbabwe
Which country sent aid and arms to the Viet Minh that helped them defeat French forces at the decisive battle of Dienbienphu in 1954?
communist China
Which of the following was the most dangerous feature of the cold war arms race?
development of nuclear weapons
What did Muhammad Ali Jinnah advocate for the future of India?
division and the creation of a separate Muslim state
The Warsaw Pact nations were all located in which of the following regions?
eastern Europe
Gorbachev's term for the opening of Soviet society to public criticism and admission of past mistakes
glasnost
The nonalignment movement was hampered by internal dissention because
many nonaligned states needed and accepted aid from either the United States or Soviet Union.
Unlike almost all previous historical revolutions, the revolutions of 1989 in eastern Europe were mostly
nonviolent.
Apartheid ended in South Africa in part because
of a powerful international anti-apartheid boycott.
An unanticipated outcome of the Chinese-Soviet split was that many countries gained an opportunity to pursue a more independent course in the global cold war by
playing capitalists against communists and by playing Soviet communists against Chinese communists.
The launch of the space satellite Sputnik
provoked panic among U.S. citizens and politicians.
The Balfour Declaration of 1917 committed the British to
support of a Jewish homeland.
As a result of the Cultural Revolution in China,
the elite were beaten and killed, jailed, or sent to corrective labor camps or to toil in the countryside.
At the Bay of Pigs in 1961,
the mission by invading anti-Castro Cuban forces was a complete failure.
Gandhi and Nehru opposed the partition of India because
they believed that Indians should act and feel as one nation.
The British withdrew from Palestine in 1947 because
they could not resolve the conflict between Palestinians and Jews.
How did the "Prague Spring" end?
with a violent invasion by the Soviet military
During the cold war, how did the Soviet Union respond to reformist movements in communist eastern Europe?
with repression and military force
During the 1980s, the Soviet Union disastrously intervened militarily in which central Asian country, suffering massive losses until withdrawing in 1989?
Afghanistan
Which European city was divided into four occupation zones for much of the cold war?
Berlin
Which country granted independence to Brunei in 1984?
Britain
Which power controlled northwestern Germany?
Britain
Which eastern European communist state ceased to exist shortly after the collapse of communism?
East Germany
Which power's zone bordered Luxembourg?
France
leader of Egypt and founder of pan-Arab nationalism
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Mao Zedong's plan to root out the revisionism in Chinese life by cleansing Chinese society of opponents to his rule
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Which of the following nations was not a member of the Warsaw Pact?
Greece
Which of the following was not a NATO nation?
Greenland
leader of Vietnam during the revolution
Ho Chi Minh
In 1947, the independence of which British colony inspired a wave of decolonization efforts by peoples across south and southeast Asia?
India
Which city was occupied by Israel after the 1948-49 war?
Jerusalem
the leader who gained freedom from Britain for Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
leader of the Polish Solidarity movement
Lech Wałęsa
Which nation fought to maintain control of Indonesia?
Netherlands
Which two NATO countries bordered the Soviet Union?
Norway and Turkey
Which of the following Asian nations had a treaty of alliance with the United States?
Pakistan
Gandhi predicted that "rivers of blood" would flow in the wake of the creation of
Pakistan.
Which of these regions gained independence first?
Philippines
Which body of water is located on the western edge of the Golan Heights?
Sea of Galilee
Which of these nations gained independence last?
Singapore
Which power controlled the zone that included the city of Berlin?
Soviet Union
Which two occupying powers' zones shared a border with Czechoslovakia?
Soviet Union and United States
Name the only communist satellite state in western Asia.
Syria
Which nation besides Israel claims the Golan Heights as its territory?
Syria
Which of these pairs of nations had territory occupied by Israel after the October War of 1973?
Syria and Egypt
Mao Zedong's plan to modernize China through collectivization and industrialization
The Great Leap Forward
Which of the following is true of U.S. involvement in Nicaragua in the 1950s and 1960s?
The United States supported a repressive, anticommunist dictatorship.
The Berlin blockade demonstrated that
Britain and the United States would not abandon Berlin.
Which body of water is bordered by Turkmenistan?
Caspian Sea
Which communist satellite state was the closest to the United States?
Cuba
Which body of water separates the Sinai peninsula from Saudi Arabia?
Gulf of Aqaba
Which of the following accurately describes Deng Xiaoping?
He engineered China's entry into the international financial and trading system.
Which new nation appeared out of the southern territory of Yugoslavia?
Macedonia
leader of the USSR in the 1980s, responsible for the opening up of the USSR's social and economic policies
Mikhail Gorbachev
organization established by the United States in 1949 as a regional military alliance
NATO
Gorbachev's term for his policy of decentralization of the Soviet economy; means "restructuring"
Perestroika
Which country gained the greatest amount of German territory after 1945?
Poland
Which successor state is the largest of the former Soviet republics?
Russian Federation
Nicaraguan group that took power in Nicaragua in 1979 by launching guerilla operations to overthrow the Somoza government
Sandinista
the first man-made satellite to orbit earth, made by the USSR
Sputnik I
Which new state shares borders with Belarus, Poland, Romania, and Moldova?
Ukraine
a term that describes the nonviolent transfer of power in Czechoslovakia during the collapse of Soviet
Velvet revolution
a military alliance formed by Soviet bloc nations in 1955 in response to rearmament of West Germany and its inclusion in NATO
Warsaw Pact
The regime of the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown because
he allowed U.S. corporations to heavily influence the economy.
The Kikuyu radicalism and violence that began in the late 1940s was primarily motivated by
nationalist opposition to British rule.
Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser gained great international prestige when he
succeeded in retaking the Suez Canal from the British.
A Geneva peace conference regarding Vietnam in 1954
temporarily divided Vietnam at the seventeenth parallel.
Which cold war event drew the two superpowers to the edge of nuclear war?
the Cuban missile crisis
The Cuban missile crisis ended when
the Soviets agreed to withdraw their missiles in exchange for Kennedy's pledge not to invade Cuba and his agreement to withdraw U.S. missiles from Turkey.
Which of the following nations controlled the city of Berlin after World War II?
the United States, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France
The focus of Gorbachev's reform efforts in the Soviet Union was
the ailing economy.
In what year did India gain its independence?
1947