Exam 3 Promise Questions

Question 1

PRC (year)

Answer 1

(1949) PRC was created by Mao Zedong

Began rise to power as Cold War began

AKA Communist China

Question 2

When was the fall of the Berlin Wall?

Answer 2

Nov. 9, 1989

Question 3

Charter ‘77 (years)

Answer 3

Major 1970s and 1980s Czech dissident movement

Name comes from an illegal document reminding countries that they signed the Helsinki Accords

Leader: Vaclav Havel (one of the document authors)

Question 4

When was the African National Congress dismantled? When did it complete?

Answer 4

(1990; 1994)

Previous elections only allowed whites to participate

ANC won the 1994 elections, with Mandela as president

Question 5

When was the independent state of Israel created?

Answer 5

May 14, 1948

Question 6

Imre Nagy

Answer 6

(1956) Leader of the Hungarian Revolution who wanted to bring multiparty rule, but he was instantly crushed, arrested, and executed