the cold war--ch26

Question 1

A charter for the UN was drafted in ______ in 1945

Answer 1

San Francisco

Question 2

headquarters of the U.N.

Answer 2

New York City

Question 3

representatives from all member nations

Answer 3

General Assembly

Question 4

five permanent and ten elected nations

Answer 4

Security Council

Question 5

the secretary general and his aids

Answer 5

Secretariat

Question 6

Failures of United Nations

Answer 6

Did not stop the spread of communism

Did not bring world peace

Threatened authority of individual nations

Question 7

a “war of words” and ideology between the Soviet Union (Communist Bloc) and America (Free World)

Answer 7

Cold War

Question 8

executed for selling nuclear secrets to Russia

Answer 8

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Question 8

Soviet Goals

Answer 8

Add satellite nations to its empire
Extend its trading powers
Expand Russia’s borders
Spread Communism

Question 9

director of Britain’s nuclear research program; supplied Russia with a detonator for the atomic bomb

Answer 9

Klaus Fuchs

Question 10

an American senator who led an investigation into supposed Communist spies in American government; it was unsuccessful

Answer 10

Joseph McCarthy

Question 11

Churchill’s description of Soviet control over its Eastern European empire

Answer 11

Iron Curtain

Question 12

financial aid of nations threatened by communism; policy of containment against communism

Answer 12

Truman Doctrine

Question 13

Europe Recovery Program of economic assistance to rebuild Europe after WW2

Answer 13

Marshall Plan

Question 14

West Germany/Berlin: ____ side

Answer 14

free

Question 15

East Germany/Berlin: ____ side

Answer 15

communist

Question 16

American aid provided by airplane to West Berlin as a result of the Berlin blockade

Answer 16

Operation Air-Lift (1948-1949)

Question 17

NATO

Answer 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 18

Opposed the Warsaw Pact to defend themselves from communist attack

Answer 18

NATO

Question 19

NATO opposed the ________ to defend themselves from communist attack

Answer 19

Warsaw Pact

Question 20

Leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s Death; wanted “de-Stalinization” of Russia

Answer 20

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 21

Nikita Khrushchev called for a false sense of “______ ______” in the world

Answer 21

“peaceful coexistence”

Question 22

called for a false sense of “peaceful coexistence” in the world

Answer 22

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 23

communist dictator of Yugoslavia

Answer 23

Marshall Tito

Question 24

built by the Soviets in 1961 to enslave East Berlin

Answer 24

Berlin Wall

Question 25

West Germany became a nation in 1955 under the leadership of ______

Answer 25

Konrad Adenauer

Question 26

socialist politics and weak economy led to the decline of England’s commonwealth

Answer 26

Great Britain

Question 27

Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Harold McMillan brought the _______ Party back to power briefly

Answer 27

conservative (The British Commonwealth of Nations separated)

Question 28

Became president of France in 1958 and led them to prosperity

Answer 28

Charles de Gaulle

Question 29

became the socialist president of France after de Gaulle’s death

Answer 29

Francois Mitterand

Question 30

conservative statesman of Italy before it fell to coalition governments and Red Brigade attacks

Answer 30

Alcide de Gasperi

Question 31

Remained “neutral” during WW2

Answer 31

Francisco Franco

Question 32

Signed a 10-year economic and military pact with the U.S. as a result of Soviet opposition

Answer 32

Francisco Franco

Question 33

successor of Francisco Franco in Spain; encouraged modernation and democratic rule

Answer 33

Juan Carlos

Question 34

________ (Norway, Sweden, Denmark) adopted socialist governments

Answer 34

Scandinavia

Question 35

(not on quiz)Communist Chinese leader

Answer 35

Mao Tse-tung

Question 36

(not on quiz)Nationalist chinese leader

Answer 36

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 37

(not on quiz)date war broke out between communists and nationalists of china

Answer 37

1927

Question 38

(not on quiz)imposed an arms embargo on the Nationalists in 1945

Answer 38

George C. Marshall

Question 39

date the Communist had won

Answer 39

1949

Question 40

date Communists establish The People’s Republic of China

Answer 40

October 1, 1949

Question 41

Mao Tse-Tung’s plan to increase industry; agriculture declines and millions were lost

Answer 41

Five-Year Plan

Question 42

Mao Tse-Tung’s second five year plan to increase industry; 15 million people died and the economy collapsed

Answer 42

Great Leap Forward

Question 43

Chinese attempt to purge all Western Influence with the use of the Red Guards

Answer 43

Cultural Revolution (1966)

Question 44

Mao’s reign of terror killed approximately ______ people (worst massacre in World History)

Answer 44

40 million

Question 45

ruled China after Mao Tse-Tung

Answer 45

Deng Xiaoping

Question 46

Korea is divided at the ___ _______

Answer 46

38th parallel

Question 47

Communist; supported by Russia (Kim II Sung)

Answer 47

North Korea leader: Kim II Sung

Question 48

Free; supported by America (Syngman Rhee)

Answer 48

South Korea leader: Syngman Rhee

Question 49

North Korea invaded South Korea in ____

Answer 49

1950

Question 50

supreme commander of UN/US forces

Answer 50

Douglas MacArthur

Question 51

North Korea pushed the UN/US forces back to the _____ Peninsula

Answer 51

Pusan

Question 52

Douglas MacArthur planned a surprise amphibious invasion of _____

Answer 52

Inchon

Question 53

possibly unimportant info: By the end of 1950, MacArthur recovered the lost territory and invaded the North

Answer 53

By the end of 1950, MacArthur recovered the lost territory and invaded the North

Question 54

China reinforced the losing North Koreans and MacArthur planned _____ war against China

Answer 54

full-scale

Question 55

Truman removed ______ from command in ____ to prevent war with china

Answer 55

MacArthur 1951