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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


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