World History Quiz Chapter 26

Question 1

headquarters of the U.N. (1952)

Answer 1

New York City

Question 2

representatives from all member nations

Answer 2

General Assembly

Question 3

five permanent & ten elected nations

Answer 3

Security Council

Question 4

the Secretary General & his raids

Answer 4

Secretariat

Question 5

Failures of the UN:

Answer 5

1. Did not stop the spread of communism
2. Did not bring world peace
3. Threatened the authority of individual nations

Question 6

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

Answer 6

Cold War

Question 7

Soviet Union’s Goals:

Answer 7

1. Add satellite nations to its empire
2. Extend its trading powers
3. Expand Russia’s borders
4. Spread Communism

Question 8

executed for selling nuclear secrets to Russia

Answer 8

Julius & Ethel Rosenberg

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

Truman’s policy of containment against communism; financial aid of nations threatened by communism (Turkey & Greece)

Answer 12

Truman Doctrine

Question 13

Europe Recovery Program of economic assistance to rebuild Europe after WWII

Answer 13

Marshall Plan

Question 14

The free side of Germany

Answer 14

West Berlin/Germany

Question 15

Communist side of Germany

Answer 15

East Berlin/Germany

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Operation Air-lifts

Question 17

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Answer 17

NATO

Question 18

leader of the Soviet Union after Stalin’s Death; wanted a “de-Stalinization” of Russia
Called for a false sense of “peaceful coexistence” in the world

Answer 18

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 19

communist dictator of Yugoslavia

Answer 19

Marshall Tito

Question 20

built by the Soviets in 1941 to enslave East Berlin

Answer 20

Berlin Wall

Question 21

became a nation in 1955 under the leadership of Konrad Adenauer

Answer 21

West Germany

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Great Britain

Question 23

Who brought back the Conservative Party in England briefly?

Answer 23

Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, & Harold McMillan

Question 24

Became the president of France in 1958 & led them to prosperity

Answer 24

Charles de Gaulle

Question 25

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

Answer 25

François Mitterand

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Alcide de Gasperi

Question 27

Remained “neutral” during WWII; Signed a 10-year economic & military pact with the U.S. as a result of Soviet opposition

Answer 27

Francisco Franco

Question 28

successor of Francisco Franco in Spain; encouraged moderation & democratic rule

Answer 28

Juan Carlos