Test 11 Flashcards

1
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Adolf Hitler called his dictatorship of German the ___

A

Third Reich

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2
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Britain’s first woman prime minister

A

Margaret Thatcher

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3
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V-e and V-J day both took place in what year?

A

1945

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4
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Great Britain defeated this country in the Falklands War

A

Argentina

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5
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the war that ended in a stalemate, with neither side gaining from the war

A

Korean War

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6
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The Axis Powers included what countries?

A

Japan, Germany, and italy

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7
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The first city bombed with an atomic weapon

A

Hiroshima

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8
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Operation Airlift was an attempt to provide what city with much needed supplies.

A

West Berlin

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9
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NATO was formed to stop what kind of aggression?

A

Communist

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10
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The Cultural Revolution of the Communist dictator Mao Tse-tung took place in which country?

A

China

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11
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Three great American defenders of Christianity

A

J. Gresham Machen
R. A. Torrey
Billy Sunday

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12
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City of the United Nations’ headquarters

A

New York

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13
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Neil Armstrong was the first man to do what?

A

walk on the moon

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14
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What was the first battle in which the enemy ships never saw each other?

A

Battle of Coral Sea

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15
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Who was the brave prime minister of Great Britain during the dark hours of World War II?

A

Winston Churchill

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16
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Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist leader of ___.

A

China

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17
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What American President proposed the New Deal to help end the Great Depression?

A

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

18
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Who was the first man to cross the Atlantic on a nonstop flight?

A

Charles Lindbergh

19
Q

What country contains a vital canal that connects the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans?

A

Panama

20
Q

What battle was the last great German offensive of World War II?

A

Battle of the Bulge

21
Q

Fidel Castro was the Communist dictator of ___.

A

Cuba

22
Q

The Marshall Plan said that the ___ would help European nations recover from World War II.

A

United States

23
Q

Which U. S. President prevented a full-fledged Communist invasion of Grenada?

A

Ronald Reagan

24
Q

The lessening of hostilities between nations is called ___.

A

detente

25
Q

What became a nation-state again under the leadership of David Ben-Gurion?

A

Israel

26
Q

British general who fought in North Africa

A

Sir Bernard Montgomery

27
Q

instituted a “restructuring” of the Soviet Union

A

Mikhail Gorbachev

28
Q

Soviet leader throughout World War II

A

Joseph Stalin

29
Q

led the Free French forces

A

Charles de Gaulle

30
Q

American President at the start of the Great Depression

A

Herbert Hoover

31
Q

Fascist dictator of Italy

A

Benito Mussolini

32
Q

great American general in the Pacific

A

Douglas MacArthur

33
Q

Japanese pilot who became a Christian

A

Mitsuo Fuchida

34
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emperor of Ethiopia

A

Haile Selassie

35
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leader of Nazi Germany

A

Adolf Hitler

36
Q

term given to the slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis

A

Holocaust

37
Q

built to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin

A

Berlin Wall

38
Q

chosen to head up the D-Day invasion of Europe

A

Dwight D. Eisenhower

39
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date Pearl harbor was attacked

A

December 7, 1941

40
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great American general led American and U.N. forces in the Korean War

A

Douglas MacArthur

41
Q

What was the Cold WAr? Why was it fought? Describe at least two ways America fought Communist aggression

A

The Cold War was a war fought with words and diplomacy, not with weapons. it was fought to gain friends on one of two sides: either freedom or Communism. America fought Communism through the Marshall Plan, which aided recovering countries; the Truman Doctrine, which promised aid to any free country that resisted Communism; and NATO, a defensive alliance formed to stop Communism. America also fought Communists in Korea and Vietnam.

42
Q

Know these places on the map of Africa.

A
Lake Victoria
Sahara Desert
Congo River
Mozambique Channel
Libya
madagascar
Sudan
Red Sea
Nigeria
Somalia
South Africa
Nile River
Liberia
Egypt
Mt. Kilimanjaro