Study Guide; Chapters 24-25 Flashcards
The UN (United Nations) was organized when?
1945
Where was the UN (United Nations) Organized?
New York City
What is a lessening of tension or hostility between nations try to work out differences through talks, treaties, etc.?
Détente
Which dictator did President George H. W. Bush order American Troops into Panama to liberate and protect the US?
Manuel Noriega
Who was Stalin replaced with?
Nikita Khrushchev
Who was the first man to walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
Who was the longest ruling leader of Britain in the 20th century?
Margaret Thatcher
What happened in 1950-1953?
Korean War
What happened in 1989?
The Berlin Wall opened
What happened in 1948?
Israel becomes a Nation
When Israel became a nation, who was the leader at this time?
David Ben-Gurion
What are neutral nations not yet aligned with either freedom or Communism?
Third World
Who advocated “passive resistance” or “civil disobedience” as a peaceful but forceful method for India to get what it wanted from Britain?
Mahatma Gandhi
Who served as the military governor of occupied Japan?
General Douglas MacArthur
Who was the most influential illustrator of the 20th century?
Norman Rockwell
What was the first skyscraper?
Home Insurance Company building
Who was the most celebrated American artist of the 20th century?
Andrew Wyeth
What focused primarily on the common working man?
Regionalism
What is Chicago’s nickname?
The Birthplace of Modern Architecture
Who invented the World Wide Web?
Tim Berners-Lee
What field deals specifically with the manipulation of atoms and molecules?
Nanotechnology
What is the largest and most intricate global project today?
International Space Station (ISS)
What month and year did try to join the US and Russia trying to send a man into space?
October, 2003
What does GPS stand for?
Global positioning system
What does RFID stand for?
Radio frequency identification
When did the first assembly of the ISS take place?
1998
Who wrote the hiding Place?
Corrie Ten Boom
Which country did Saddam Hussein dictate?
Iraq
Who followed Mikhail Gorbachev, as the president of the newly organize commonwealth of independent states?
Boris Yeltsin
What was introduce as a single currency of EU members that someday would rival the American dollar?
Euro
What was NAFTA’s main goal?
Eliminate trade restrictions
What is the global push to United Nations of the world?
The New World order (NWO)
In what year did every Eastern European nation consider it self independent from the Soviet union?
1991
Who led the solidarity movement?
Lech Walesa
What system of weaponry was designed to destroy enemy this a warhead in fight it was alarming to the Soviets?
SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)
Which Cuban dictator did Fidel Castro overthrow?
Batista
What country crossed the 38th parallel invaded South Korea?
North Korea
Who led the nationalist government?
Chiang Kai-Shek
Who moved to Germany toward a vigorous free market economy?
Konrad Adenauer
Where did Josip Tito lead an anti-Soviet rebellion?
Yugoslavia
What are nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another?
Satellites
The Truman doctrine tried to keep what from spreading to the new areas of the world?
Communism
Can you take Lexi to Starbucks?
The correct answer will be yes :>
