Unit 7/8 Test Flashcards
Ne Win
Military ruler who turned Burma towards isolationism
Mobutu Sese Seko
Ousted Patrice Lumumba from power in the Congo and then established a corrupt dictatorship, renaming the country Zaire
Hind swaraj
Home rule
Dictator in Philippines until 1986
Ferdinand Marcos
Who was Indonesia independent under
Sukarno
Later overthrown by Suharto
President in Ghana
Kwame Nkrumah
First president in Kenya
Kenyatta
Congo independent under
Lumumba
Who was Congo’s Lumumba overthrown by
Joseph Mobutu
Who was the former CCP leader that modernized China after Mao
Deng
Who was president of the CCP after Deng
Jiang
Who did the U.S. back in South Korea
Syngman Lee
Who did the soviets back in North Korea
Kim Il Sung
Who took over command from MacArthur
Matthew Ridgeway
Who was the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Who headed the Republic of Vietnam in the south
Ngo Dinh Diem
Apartheid
System of racial segregation adopted by south Africa’s government in 1948
Where did the U.S back anti communist forces in LA
Chile with Salvador Allende
Nicaragua and later El Salvador
5 permanent members of the security council
U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China
What leaders had the longest dictatorships
Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines
Suharto in Indonesia
How did the State of Israel expand its borders
6 day war
Jerusalem, the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank
Camp David accords
Egypt recognizes the sovereignty of Israel
In return they get the Sinai Peninsula
Oslo Accords on 1993
Gov of Israel and PLO failed agreement to end Israeli-Palestinian conflict
1st and 2nd intifadas
Palestinians resented Israeli rule and the Failure of the peace Process
What 2 leaders were assassinated
Yitzhak Rabin from Israel
Andar Sadat from Egypt
Hind Swaraj
Home rule
After independence who was India headed by
Prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru
Who headed Pakistan
Mohammed Ali Jinnah
What territory did India and Pakistan fight over after independence
Kashmir
Who were the Asian Tigers
Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore
What happened at Tiananmen Square
Students were fed up with corruption and lack of democracy
Where was the amphibious landing by General MacArthur
Incheon
