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

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Andrei Gromyko

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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?

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Alger Hiss

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

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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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?

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Klaus Fuchs

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

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Nikita Khrushchev

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

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Khrushchev

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

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Marshal Tito

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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.

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Konrad Adenauer

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

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Charles de Gaulle

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

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Francois Mitterand

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

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Juan Carlos

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

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Chiang Kaishek

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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?

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Mao Tse-tung

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

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Deng Xaioping

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

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Kim Il-sung

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

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Syngman Rhee

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

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Douglas MacArthur

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

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Douglas MacArthur

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What Cuban dictator was overthrown by a Communist revolution?

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Fulgencio Batista

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

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Fidel Castro

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

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Juan Peron

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

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Isabel Peron

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Who was the Communist president of Chile?

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Salvador Allende

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Who succeeded Allende as president of Chile and brought reform?

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Augusto Pinochet

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

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Chaim Weizmann

26
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Who was Israel’s first prime minister?

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David Ben-Gurion

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

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

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

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Camp David Accords

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Who was the head of the PLO?

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Yassir Arafat

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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?

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Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi

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

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Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini

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

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Saddam Hussein

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

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Mahatma Gandhi

Jawaharlal Nehru

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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?

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Kwame Nkrumah

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

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Patrice Lumumba

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

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Dr. Paul Carlson

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

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Haile Selassia I

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

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Ho Chi Minh

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

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Ngo Ding Diem

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

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William C. Westmoreland

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

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Edward Teller

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Who was the “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”?

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Edward Teller

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

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J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

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Henry Kissinger

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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?

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Leonid Brezhnev

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

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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

47
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Who was the first man into space and which country is he from?

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Yuri Gagarin

Russia

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

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Neil Armstrong

American

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

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Margaret Thatcher

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

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Ronald Reagan

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Who was the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland?

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Lech Walesa

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

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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

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Nicolae Ceausescu

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What Russian Republic president led resistance against the 1991 coup?

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Boris Yeltsin

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