HIST1112: Chapter 29 Quiz 1

The Communist Party of China turned to its most colossal mass mobilization project yet, the Great Leap Forward, in ________.

1958

In the Hungarian uprising, from October to November 1956, some 2500 local troops and 700 Soviet soldiers were killed, while _________ escaped to the West.

250,000

An estimated ________ Palestinians were driven out of their villages and homes after the first Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949.

750,000

A war of independence was declared by the _______ Front of National Liberation in 1954—and independence was finally achieved in 1962.

Algerian

The world's first female prime minister took power in ________ in 1960.

Ceylon

The Marshall Plan allocated funds to all of the following countries except:

Czechoslovakia

Mao Zedong was alarmed by the pronouncements of General _____________, the commander of the UN forces in Korea, about raiding Chinese supply bases on the North Korean border.

Douglas MacArthur

Between 1953 and 1961, the ________ "brain drain" reached 3 million defectors, or nearly one-fifth of the population, most of them young and ambitious people.

East German

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council are China, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, and ______.

France

Following protracted negotiations over Vietnamese independence in early 1946 between Ho Chi Minh and the _________, a stalemate ensued.

French

As a result of the __________ in the United States, millions of veterans benefited from new training and educational opportunities.

GI Bill

______ formulated the United States' policy of containment, which was designed to thwart Soviet expansion into new areas of the globe

George F. Kennan

Kwame Nkrumah appeared to be a sound choice for leading a constitutional, independent regime in _________ in 1957.

Ghana

In its indictment of traditional societal and cultural norms, Allen Ginsberg's __________ and Other Poems (1956) represents the earliest expression of the "Beat" ethic.

Howl

In the elections of 1946 in Argentina, __________ gained a mandate as president at the head of a fractious coalition of nationalists, socialists, and communists.

Juan Perón

Post-World War II artistic movements included all of the following except:

Neo-Federalism

By 1949, Chiang K'ai-shek and most of his forces had fled to _______, and Mao's forces took Beijing.

Taiwan

The original founders of the Non-Aligned Movement of Nations included all of the following except:

Turkey

In the fall of 1953, Nikita Khrushchev, who was a metalworker from the Russian-_________ border, was chosen to succeed Stalin.

Ukrainian

In response to the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the Soviet Union formed the ______ Pact in 1955.

Warsaw