Chapter 19 Test Flashcards
Helped India achieve its independence through passive resistance
Gandhi
Led an anti-Communist movement in Poland
Walesa
Established communism in Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Established a free market in West Germany
Adenauer
First Soviet president
Gorbachev
Established the Fifth Republic in France in 1959
de Gaulle
Unpopular Soviet leader who was voted out of office
Khrushchev
Conservative British prime minister
Thatcher
Communist dictator of China
Mao Zedong
American president who helped spread democracy
Reagan
Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union these people had a difficult time obtaining a visa
missionaries from the West
The ______________ tried to purge anti-Communist elements from China
Cultural Revolution
This was where there was a peaceful protest for political reform
Tiananmen Square
The US and Soviet Union recognized ________ as a nation in 1948
Israel
Pakistan was originally part of ________
India
The _______ welfare system resulted in high taxes and high unemployment
French
This country’s recovery became known as the economic miracle of Europe
West Germany
UN forces invaded Korea here
Inchon
The UN forced North Korean troops and forced them back here
38th parallel
Japan’s economy finally recovered from WWII during this decade
1980s
This is the name of the class of ideas between Western and Communist nations that began after World War II and lasted until 1991
Cold War
During the Cold War, the regions that remained neutral and did not ally themselves with the free world or the Communist powers became known as this
Third World
The name of the first man-made satellite
Sputnik
This became the first official recognition by a world power that the Jews needed a land to call their own
Balfour Declaration
His Strategic Defense Initiative program convinced the Soviet Union that it could no longer compete with the United States
President Regan
This resulted in an around the clock airlift by the Unites States and Britain
Berlin Blockade
The island that Chiang Kai-she found the Republic of China
Taiwan
Russia invaded this country in 1979 but left in 1989 after experiencing growing loses with no prospect of victory
Afghanistan
This African country became the first to achieve independence
Ghana
The Jews seized areas that enhanced their security during this
Six-Day War
The Soviet Union collapsed due to these reasons
- Overthrowing rulers
- Voting out leaders
- Allowing private ownership of business
In 1962, the US discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles here
Cuba
This nation governed Palestine after WWI until 1948
Britain
This former French colony defeated French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu
Vietnam
This country became the first to harness the power of the atom
United States
This European country underwent a civil war over communism before joining NATO
Greece
This economic plan intended to double China’s steel and agricultural production
Great Leap Forward
NATO offered its member nations protection form this Communist nation
Soviet Union
The US economic plan that helped stabilize Western Europe
the Marshall Plan
