Ch26 - People Flashcards
Who was the head of the Communist Russia’s delegation at the founding of the UN?
Andrei Gromyko
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?
Alger Hiss
What American couple was convicted of treason in 1951 and executed in 1953 for passing vital information to Russian agents?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
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?
Klaus Fuchs
Who was Stalin’s successor that led Russia from 1955 to 1964?
Nikita Khrushchev
Who claimed that the Soviet Union had shifted from active agitation and aggression to a desire for “peaceful coexistence” with the free world?
Khrushchev
Who was Yugoslavia’s leader that established his own brand of Communism outside the Soviet sphere of control?
Marshal Tito
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.
Konrad Adenauer
Who was the leader of the Free French government during World War II and helped write a new constitution and establish the Fifth Republic?
Charles de Gaulle
What socialist became president of France and nationalized much of France’s industry, business, and finances, causing the economy to deteriorate?
Francois Mitterand
What successor of Francisco Franco encouraged moderation and democratic rule during periods of unrest in Spain?
Juan Carlos
What Christian statesman led the Nationalist Chinese to Taiwan after the Communist takeover of mainland China?
Chiang Kaishek
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?
Mao Tse-tung
Who emerged as Communist China’s most powerful leader by 1980?
Deng Xaioping
Who was the leader of the Communist puppet regime in North Korea?
Kim Il-sung
Who was elected the first president of the Republic of Korea?
Syngman Rhee
Who was a WWII hero and supreme commander of all United States and United Nations forces during the Korean War.
Douglas MacArthur
Who told Congress “there can be no substitute for victory?”
Douglas MacArthur
What Cuban dictator was overthrown by a Communist revolution?
Fulgencio Batista
Who was the leader of the revolutionary group that toppled Batista and imposed Communism on Cuba in 1959?
Fidel Castro
Who led military overthrew of the government in Argentina and served as president of Argentina?
Juan Peron
Who succeeded her husband as president of Argentina and was the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere?
Isabel Peron
Who was the Communist president of Chile?
Salvador Allende
Who succeeded Allende as president of Chile and brought reform?
Augusto Pinochet
What Russian-born Jewish chemist headed the World Zionist Organization and became the first president of Israel?
Chaim Weizmann
Who was Israel’s first prime minister?
David Ben-Gurion
What Israeli prime minister and Egyptian president met with what US President to discuss a peaceful settlement of Israeli-Egyptian disputes?
Israel - Menachem Begin
Egypt - Anwar el-Sadat
U.S. - Jimmy Carter
What were the Accords that were signed to try to make peace between Israel and Egypt?
Camp David Accords
Who was the head of the PLO?
Yassir Arafat
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?
Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi
Who was Iran’s totalitarian Muslim leader that captured the US Embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage?
Ayatolla Ruhollah Khomeini
Who was the dictator of Iraq that initiated a bloody war with Iran in the 1980s?
Saddam Hussein
What leaders advocated civil disobedience against the British government of India as a means of achieving Indian independence?
Mahatma Gandhi
Jawaharlal Nehru
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?
Kwame Nkrumah
What pro-Communist premier fought a civil war in the Republic of the Congo with the help of the Soviet Union?
Patrice Lumumba
What American medical missionary was murdered by Marxist-supported terrorists in the Republic of the Congo?
Dr. Paul Carlson
What emperor of Ethiopia was overthrown by a military coup in 1974 and was murdered shortly afterward?
Haile Selassia I
What Vietnamese Communist formed the Indochinese Communist Party with the intention to establish a Communist government over all of French Indochina?
Ho Chi Minh
Who was the first president of South Vietnam and was assassinated in 1963?
Ngo Ding Diem
Who was the commander of U.S. troops in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War?
William C. Westmoreland
What Hungarian-born American physicist worked on the Manhattan Project and also on the hydrogen bomb?
Edward Teller
Who was the “Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”?
Edward Teller
What pro-Communist consultant to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission helped develop the atomic bomb but opposed the building of the hydrogen bomb?
J. Robert Oppenheimer
What presidential assistant for national security affairs ended American opposition to Communist China’s membership in the United Nations?
Henry Kissinger
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?
Leonid Brezhnev
What famous Russian writer was imprisoned in the Soviet Union for exposing the cruelties of Communism and was later exiled to the West?
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Who was the first man into space and which country is he from?
Yuri Gagarin
Russia
Who was the first man to step onto the surface of the moon and what country is he from?
Neil Armstrong
American
Who was Britain’s first woman prime minister and was noted for her conservative reforms and emphasis on traditional morality?
Margaret Thatcher
What was President of the US from 1981 to 1989 and promoted conservative economic principles and a return to traditional morality?
Ronald Reagan
Who was the leader of the Solidarity movement in Poland?
Lech Walesa
What Soviet Union leader (from 1985 to 1991) signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987 and loosened Soviet control over Eastern Europe?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What cruel Romanian dictator was executed with his wife in the overthrow of Communism in 1989?
Nicolae Ceausescu
What Russian Republic president led resistance against the 1991 coup?
Boris Yeltsin
