Ch26 - People

Question 1

Who was the head of the Communist Russia’s delegation at the founding of the UN?

Answer 1

Andrei Gromyko

Question 2

Who was an official in the U.S. State Department during the founding of the UN who was later implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union?

Answer 2

Alger Hiss

Question 3

What American couple was convicted of treason in 1951 and executed in 1953 for passing vital information to Russian agents?

Answer 3

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 4

What director of Britain’s nuclear research program was convicted in 1950 for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism that would detonate the atomic bomb?

Answer 4

Klaus Fuchs

Question 5

Who was Stalin’s successor that led Russia from 1955 to 1964?

Answer 5

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 6

Who claimed that the Soviet Union had shifted from active agitation and aggression to a desire for “peaceful coexistence” with the free world?

Answer 6

Khrushchev

Question 7

Who was Yugoslavia’s leader that established his own brand of Communism outside the Soviet sphere of control?

Answer 7

Marshal Tito

Question 8

Who was the leader of West Germany that moved his nation toward a vigorous free market economy and transformed it into one of the most prosperous nations in the world.

Answer 8

Konrad Adenauer

Question 9

Who was the leader of the Free French government during World War II and helped write a new constitution and establish the Fifth Republic?

Answer 9

Charles de Gaulle

Question 10

What socialist became president of France and nationalized much of France’s industry, business, and finances, causing the economy to deteriorate?

Answer 10

Francois Mitterand

Question 11

What successor of Francisco Franco encouraged moderation and democratic rule during periods of unrest in Spain?

Answer 11

Juan Carlos

Question 12

What Christian statesman led the Nationalist Chinese to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of mainland China?

Answer 12

Chiang Kaishek

Question 13

Who led the Chinese Communists in revolution against the Nationalist government in 1949 and established a Communist regime in mainland China called the People’s Republic of China?

Answer 13

Mao Tse-tung

Question 14

Who emerged as Communist China’s most powerful leader by 1980?

Answer 14

Deng Xaioping

Question 15

Who was the leader of the Communist puppet regime in North Korea?

Answer 15

Kim Il-sung

Question 16

Who was elected the first president of the Republic of Korea?

Answer 16

Syngman Rhee

Question 17

Who was a WWII hero and supreme commander of all United States and United Nations forces during the Korean War.

Answer 17

Douglas MacArthur

Question 18

Who told Congress “there can be no substitute for victory?”

Answer 18

Douglas MacArthur

Question 19

What Cuban dictator was overthrown by a Communist revolution?

Answer 19

Fulgencio Batista

Question 20

Who was the leader of the revolutionary group that toppled Batista and imposed Communism on Cuba in 1959?

Answer 20

Fidel Castro

Question 21

Who led military overthrew of the government in Argentina and served as president of Argentina?

Answer 21

Juan Peron

Question 22

Who succeeded her husband as president of Argentina and was the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere?

Answer 22

Isabel Peron

Question 23

Who was the Communist president of Chile?

Answer 23

Salvador Allende

Question 24

Who succeeded Allende as president of Chile and brought reform?

Answer 24

Augusto Pinochet

Question 25

What Russian-born Jewish chemist headed the World Zionist Organization and became the first president of Israel?

Answer 25

Chaim Weizmann

Question 26

Who was Israel's first prime minister?

Answer 26

David Ben-Gurion

Question 27

What Israeli prime minister and Egyptian president met with what US President to discuss a peaceful settlement of Israeli-Egyptian disputes?

Answer 27

Israel - Menachem Begin Egypt - Anwar el-Sadat U.S. - Jimmy Carter

Question 28

What were the Accords that were signed to try to make peace between Israel and Egypt?

Answer 28

Camp David Accords

Question 29

Who was the head of the PLO?

Answer 29

Yassir Arafat

Question 30

Who was called "the Shah" and was Iran's anti-Communist ruler who was overthrown by a combined force of Communist terrorists and Muslim radicals?

Answer 30

Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi

Question 31

Who was Iran's totalitarian Muslim leader that captured the US Embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage?

Answer 31

Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini

Question 32

Who was the dictator of Iraq that initiated a bloody war with Iran in the 1980s?

Answer 32

Saddam Hussein

Question 33

What leaders advocated civil disobedience against the British government of India as a means of achieving Indian independence?

Answer 33

Mahatma Gandhi | Jawaharlal Nehru

Question 34

What Prime Minister of Ghana that, after becoming the idol of African nationalists, became an outright dictator and later was overthrown in a military coup?

Answer 34

Kwame Nkrumah

Question 35

What pro-Communist premier fought a civil war in the Republic of the Congo with the help of the Soviet Union?

Answer 35

Patrice Lumumba

Question 36

What American medical missionary was murdered by Marxist-supported terrorists in the Republic of the Congo?

Answer 36

Dr. Paul Carlson

Question 37

What emperor of Ethiopia was overthrown by a military coup in 1974 and was murdered shortly afterward?

Answer 37

Haile Selassia I

Question 38

What Vietnamese Communist formed the Indochinese Communist Party with the intention to establish a Communist government over all of French Indochina?

Answer 38

Ho Chi Minh

Question 39

Who was the first president of South Vietnam and was assassinated in 1963?

Answer 39

Ngo Ding Diem

Question 40

Who was the commander of U.S. troops in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?

Answer 40

William C. Westmoreland

Question 41

What Hungarian-born American physicist worked on the Manhattan Project and also on the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 41

Edward Teller

Question 42

Who was the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"?

Answer 42

Edward Teller

Question 43

What pro-Communist consultant to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission helped develop the atomic bomb but opposed the building of the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 43

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Question 44

What presidential assistant for national security affairs ended American opposition to Communist China's membership in the United Nations?

Answer 44

Henry Kissinger

Question 45

Who became head of the Soviet Union in 1964, continued the policy of "peaceful coexistence" and used the West's desire for detente to his advantage?

Answer 45

Leonid Brezhnev

Question 46

What famous Russian writer was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for exposing the cruelties of Communism and was later exiled to the West?

Answer 46

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Question 47

Who was the first man into space and which country is he from?

Answer 47

Yuri Gagarin | Russia

Question 48

Who was the first man to step onto the surface of the moon and what country is he from?

Answer 48

Neil Armstrong | American

Question 49

Who was Britain's first woman prime minister and was noted for her conservative reforms and emphasis on traditional morality?

Answer 49

Margaret Thatcher

Question 50

What was President of the US from 1981 to 1989 and promoted conservative economic principles and a return to traditional morality?

Answer 50

Ronald Reagan

Question 51

Who was the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland?

Answer 51

Lech Walesa

Question 52

What Soviet Union leader (from 1985 to 1991) signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 and loosened Soviet control over Eastern Europe?

Answer 52

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 53

What cruel Romanian dictator was executed with his wife in the overthrow of Communism in 1989?

Answer 53

Nicolae Ceausescu

Question 54

What Russian Republic president led resistance against the 1991 coup?

Answer 54

Boris Yeltsin