Chapter 19 Test

Question 1

Helped India achieve its independence through passive resistance

Answer 1

Gandhi

Question 2

Led an anti-Communist movement in Poland

Answer 2

Walesa

Question 3

Established communism in Vietnam

Answer 3

Ho Chi Minh

Question 4

Established a free market in West Germany

Answer 4

Adenauer

Question 5

First Soviet president

Answer 5

Gorbachev

Question 6

Established the Fifth Republic in France in 1959

Answer 6

de Gaulle

Question 7

Unpopular Soviet leader who was voted out of office

Answer 7

Khrushchev

Question 8

Conservative British prime minister

Answer 8

Thatcher

Question 9

Communist dictator of China

Answer 9

Mao Zedong

Question 10

American president who helped spread democracy

Answer 10

Reagan

Question 11

Prior to the fall of the Soviet Union these people had a difficult time obtaining a visa

Answer 11

missionaries from the West

Question 12

The ______________ tried to purge anti-Communist elements from China

Answer 12

Cultural Revolution

Question 13

This was where there was a peaceful protest for political reform

Answer 13

Tiananmen Square

Question 14

The US and Soviet Union recognized ________ as a nation in 1948

Answer 14

Israel

Question 15

Pakistan was originally part of ________

Answer 15

India

Question 16

The _______ welfare system resulted in high taxes and high unemployment

Answer 16

French

Question 17

This country’s recovery became known as the economic miracle of Europe

Answer 17

West Germany

Question 18

UN forces invaded Korea here

Answer 18

Inchon

Question 19

The UN forced North Korean troops and forced them back here

Answer 19

38th parallel

Question 20

Japan’s economy finally recovered from WWII during this decade

Answer 20

1980s

Question 21

This is the name of the class of ideas between Western and Communist nations that began after World War II and lasted until 1991

Answer 21

Cold War

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Third World

Question 23

The name of the first man-made satellite

Answer 23

Sputnik

Question 24

This became the first official recognition by a world power that the Jews needed a land to call their own

Answer 24

Balfour Declaration

Question 25

His Strategic Defense Initiative program convinced the Soviet Union that it could no longer compete with the United States

Answer 25

President Regan

Question 26

This resulted in an around the clock airlift by the Unites States and Britain

Answer 26

Berlin Blockade

Question 27

The island that Chiang Kai-she found the Republic of China

Answer 27

Taiwan

Question 28

Russia invaded this country in 1979 but left in 1989 after experiencing growing loses with no prospect of victory

Answer 28

Afghanistan

Question 29

This African country became the first to achieve independence

Answer 29

Ghana

Question 30

The Jews seized areas that enhanced their security during this

Answer 30

Six-Day War

Question 31

The Soviet Union collapsed due to these reasons

Answer 31

• Overthrowing rulers
• Voting out leaders
• Allowing private ownership of business

Question 32

In 1962, the US discovered that the Soviet Union had placed nuclear missiles here

Answer 32

Cuba

Question 33

This nation governed Palestine after WWI until 1948

Answer 33

Britain

Question 34

This former French colony defeated French forces at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu

Answer 34

Vietnam

Question 35

This country became the first to harness the power of the atom

Answer 35

United States

Question 36

This European country underwent a civil war over communism before joining NATO

Answer 36

Greece

Question 37

This economic plan intended to double China’s steel and agricultural production

Answer 37

Great Leap Forward

Question 38

NATO offered its member nations protection form this Communist nation

Answer 38

Soviet Union

Question 39

The US economic plan that helped stabilize Western Europe

Answer 39

the Marshall Plan