Chapter 26 Flashcards

1
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T/F

The Shah of IRAQ was ousted by rebels in 1979

A

True

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T/F

SADDAM HUSSEIN was the leader of Ethiopia overthrown by Communists.

A

Haile Selassie I

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3
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T/F

NGO DINH DIEM was the dictator of Communist North Vietnam after Vietnam was divided.

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Ho Chi Minh

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4
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T/F

In April 1986, a nuclear reactor accident at CHERNOBYL killed 23 people.

A

True

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5
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T/F

President Reagan and BORIS YELTSIN signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in 1987.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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T/F

East and West Germany were officially reunited on October 3, 1990.

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True

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T/F

In 1991, most of the former Soviet republic banded together to form the COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES.

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True

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General EISENHOWER said, “There is no substitute for victory.”

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MacArthur

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9
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The Ho Chi Minh Trail was a North Vietnamese supply trail that ran through CAMBODIA.

A

True

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10
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The African National Congress was influential in SOUTH AFRICA.

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True

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11
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Which of the following statements is most true about the Tet Offensive?
A. The Tet Offensive was an attack by American troops against North Vietnamese strongholds.
B. The American forces suffered overwhelming losses and were forced to retreat.
C. The Tet Offensive was a victory for the Americans, but the U.S. media portrayed it as a loss.
D. More Americans died int he Tet Offensive than in all other campaigns of the Vietnam War combined.

A

C. The Tet Offensives was a victory for the Americans, but the U.S. media portrayed it as a loss.

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12
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Which of the following statements best explains why the nations of Eastern Europe were freed?
A. Eastern Europe had grown too powerful militarily for the Soviet Union to control it.
B. Soviet troops refused to fight so far from their homes
C. The Soviets genuinely desired world peace.
D. The Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from the West.

A

D. The Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from the West.

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13
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What country brutally crushed a demonstration for freedom at Tiananmen Square?
A. Russia
B. China
C. Cuba
D. Angola
A

China

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14
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What was the major cause of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War?
A. The Communist troops were better soldiers and won victories more easily.
B. The policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their resources to win.
C. There was no strong general to lead the American troops to victory.
D. the South Vietnamese forces would not allow a large American military build-up.

A

B. The policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their resources to win.

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15
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Which statement best describes the Reagan Doctrine?
A. It was a policy of containing Communism where it already existed.
B. It was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a country.
C. It stated that the United States would continue with the principles of detente.
D. It was a policy of fighting Communism only on the continents of Europe and Asia.

A

B. It was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a country.

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16
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A passenger airliner from \_\_\_\_\_, KAL 007, was shot down in Soviet airspace in 1983.
A. England
B. Japan
C. South Korea
D. Taiwan
A

C. South Korea

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17
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17. What island did Fidel Castro attempt to use as a military base to invade the South American mainland?
A. Cuba
B. Grenada
C. Haiti
D. Puerto Rico
A

B. Grenada

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18
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What country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982?
A. Argentina
b. Brazil
c. Chile
D. Peru
A

A. Argentina

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19
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The Republic of the Congo was renamed \_\_\_\_\_ in 1971.
A. Ethiopia
B. Ghana
C. South Africa
D. Zaire
A

Zaire

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20
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Who became the first president of Israel?
A. Menachem Begin
B. David Ben-Gurion
C. Moshe Dayan
d. Chaim Weizmann
A

D. Chaim Weizmann

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21
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succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union

A

Leonid Brezhnev

22
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met with Menachem Begin at Camp David

A

Anwar el Sadat

23
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President Nixon’s assistant for national security affairs

A

Henry Kissinger

24
Q

Communist leader who loosened Soviet control of Eastern Europe

A

Mikhail Gorbachev

25
Q

president of Argentina

A

Juan Peron

26
Q

West German leader

A

Konrad Adenauer

27
Q

president of the Russian Republic

A

Boris Yeltsin

28
Q

“Father of the Hydrogen Bomb”

A

Edward Teller

29
Q

established the PLO

A

Yassir Arafat

30
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Communist leader of Chile

A

Salvador Allende

31
Q

Communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua

A

Saninistas

32
Q

“reducing tension”

A

detente

33
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“openness”

A

Glasnost

34
Q

policy of racial segregation

A

apartheid

35
Q

limited the production of nuclear arms

A

SALT

36
Q

“restructuring”

A

Perestroika

37
Q

military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

A

Warsaw Pact

38
Q

Italian Communist terrorist group

A

Red Brigades

39
Q

included agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula

A

Camp David Accords

40
Q

movement of Polish naationalists

A

Solidarity

41
Q

name the three major organizations of the United Nations.

A

General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat

42
Q

Who became the leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s death?

A

Nikita Kruschchev

43
Q

What is another name for the European Recovery program?

A

The Marshall Plan

44
Q

Who was the leader of the Free French government during World War II?

A

Charles de Gaulle

45
Q

What did Mao Tse-tung launch in China to purge China of “counter-revolutionaries” and foreign influences?

A

Cultural Revolution

46
Q

What general replaced MacArthur as commander of the Allied forces in Korea?

A

Matthew B. Ridgeway

47
Q

Who was the dictator of Yugoslavia that branded his own form of Communism?

A

Marshal Tito

48
Q

What was the first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence?

A

Ghana

49
Q

What provided the legal justification for U.S. military involvement int he Vietnam conflict?

A

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

50
Q

Who was the first woman to become prime minister of Great Britain?

A

Margaret Thatcher