World History Quiz Chapter 26 part 2

Question 1

Communist Chinese leader

Answer 1

Mao Tse-Tung

Question 2

Nationalist Chinese leader

Answer 2

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 3

When did the Chinese civil war begin?

Answer 3

1927

Question 4

imposed an arms embargo on the Nationalists in 1945

Answer 4

George C. Marshall

Question 5

Where did the Chinese Nationalists flee to after the Chinese Communists won the civil war?

Answer 5

Formosa (Taiwan)

Question 6

Mao’s plan to increase industry; agriculture declined & millions were lost

Answer 6

Five-Year Plan

Question 7

Mao’s 2nd Five-Year Plan to increase industry; 15 million people died & the economy collapsed

Answer 7

Great Leap Forward

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Cultural Revolution

Question 9

How many people did Mao Tse-Tung’s reign of terror kill?

Answer 9

approximately 40 million people

Question 10

Which parallel was Korea divided by?

Answer 10

38th Parallel

Question 11

Which Korean country was Communist?

Answer 11

North Korea

Question 12

Who was the Korean Communist leader that was supported by Russia?

Answer 12

Kim IL Sung

Question 13

Which Korean country was Free?

Answer 13

South Korea

Question 14

Who was the Korean Free leader that was supported by America?

Answer 14

Syngman Rhee

Question 15

supreme commander of UN/US forces

Answer 15

Douglas MacArthur

Question 16

Which President relieved General MacArthur of his duties during the Korean War?

Answer 16

President Truman

Question 17

What was General MacArthur’s most famous saying?

Answer 17

“There can be no substitute for victory”

Question 18

dictator of Cuba from 1934-1959

Answer 18

Fulgencio Batista

Question 19

successfully overthrew Batista in 1959; became a Communist dictator in Cuba

Answer 19

Fidel Castro

Question 20

In 1961, President Kennedy promised aerial support to Cuban freedom fighters

Answer 20

Bay of Pigs Incident

Question 21

What was the result of the Bay of Pigs Incident?

Answer 21

Kennedy did not come through on his promised aerial supported & the Cuban freedom fighters were murdered

Question 22

Russia used Cuba as a base for nuclear missiles in 1962

Answer 22

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 23

Communists revolutionaries of Nicaragua

Answer 23

Sandinistas

Question 24

overthrew the government of Argentina & established tyrannical rule

Answer 24

Juan Perón

Question 25

1st woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere

Answer 25

Isabel Perón

Question 26

Communist President of Chile

Answer 26

Salvador Allende

Question 27

replaced Allende & brought free market economy to Chile

Answer 27

Augusto Pinochet

Question 28

supported a national Jewish homeland in Palestine

Answer 28

Balfour Declaration

Question 29

advocates of a Jewish National State

Answer 29

Zionists

Question 30

When was the founding of the modern nation of Israel?

Answer 30

1948

Question 31

Israel preemptively attacked & defeated surrounding Arabic nations

Answer 31

Six-Day War

Question 32

Egypt & Syria invaded Israel’s territory but they were defeated

Answer 32

Yom Kippur War (1973-1974)

Question 33

formed to control supply & price of oil

Answer 33

OPEC (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries)

Question 34

peace treaty between Israel & Egypt negotiated by President Jimmy Carter; first Arabic/Jewish treaty in history

Answer 34

Camp David Accords

Question 35

sought to establish a Palestinian state in Israel through force & terror

Answer 35

PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

Question 36

leader of the PLO

Answer 36

Yessir Arafat

Question 37

became dictator of Iraq in 1979

Answer 37

Saddam Hussein

Question 38

advocated civil disobedience against the British in a movement for independence

Answer 38

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 39

the 1st black African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence

Answer 39

Ghana

Question 40

Prime Minister & eventual dictator of Ghana

Answer 40

Kwame Nkrumah

Question 41

Belgium’s largest African colony

Answer 41

The Congo

Question 42

became dictator of the Congo; it was renamed Zaire in 1971

Answer 42

Joseph Mobutu

Question 43

which country was the leader of the Black African Nations

Answer 43

Nigeria

Question 44

2 oldest African independent states

Answer 44

Liberia & Ethiopia

Question 45

last of the original monarchs of Ethiopia

Answer 45

Haile Selassie I

Question 46

policy of racial segregation in South Africa

Answer 46

Apartheid