History ch. 26

  1. Three organs that make up UN
    • General Assembly
    • Security Council
    • Secretariat
  2. what were the two sides of the "Cold War"

    what was the neutral party
    • "free world"
    • "Communist bloc"

    "Third World"
  3. three people who passed atomic bomb secrets
    • Julius Rosenberg
    • Ethel Rosenberg
    • Klaus Fuchs
  4. policy declaring that the United States would aid any free nation to resist communist aggression
    Truman Doctrine (policy of containment)
  5. organization formed in 1949 to provide defense against the threat of communism
    North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
  6. military alliance of the Soviet Union and Eastern European
    Warsaw Pact
  7. who replaced Stalin as the Soviet director

    (he denounced Stalin's tactics and gave impression Soviet Communism was mellowing)
    Nikita Khrushchev
  8. what symbol of Soviet oppression was built in Eastern Europe in 1961
    Berlin Wall
  9. three conservative British prime ministers during the 1950's and 1960's
    • Winston Churchill
    • Anthony Eden
    • Harold Macmillan
  10. Who was the leader of the free french government during WWII
    Charles de Gaulle
  11. what saved over 2 1/4 million West Berlin from starvation
    Berlin Airlift
  12. Konrad Adenauer was a leader of what country
    West Germany
  13. who was the director of Britain's Nuclear research program
    Klaus Fuchs
  14. Director of Yugoslavia that established his own brand of communism
    Marshal Tito
  15. global conflict between the free world and the communist block
    "Cold War"
  16. what common market did western Europe form
    European Economic Community (EEC)
  17. Chinese Nationalist leader
    Chiang Kai-shek
  18. Chinese Communist leader
    Mao Tse-tung
  19. who led the US envoy to China
    George C. Marshall
  20. who was the North Korean Communist leader
    Kim Il Sung
  21. Korea is divided by what line
    38th parallel
  22. When did the Korean War begin
    June 25, 1950
  23. the battle line in the South Eastern corner of the Korean peninsula
    Pusan Perimeter
  24. communist gangs of Chinese young people
    Red Guards
  25. what island did Fidel Castro use to invade the South American Mainland
    Grenada
  26. communist revolutionaries of Nicaragua
    Sandinistas
  27. who was the President of Argentina
    Juan Perón
  28. who is the communist leader in Chile
    Salvador Allende
  29. when did Israel become a nation
    1948
  30. Israel's first president
    Chaim Weizmann
  31. Who was Israel's first prime minister
    David Ben-Gurion
  32. first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence
    Ghana
  33. Name the agreement by Israel to withdraw from the Sini Peninsula
    Camp David Accords
  34. The Republic of Congo was renamed what in 1971
    Zaire
  35. who is the leader of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)
    Yassir Arafat
  36. organization formed a monopoly to control the supply and price of oil
    OPEC
  37. name the two nations that signed the Camp David Accords
    • Israel
    • Egypt
  38. the Italian communist terrorist group
    Red Brigades
  39. the name of the second five year plan in China
    Great Leap Forward
  40. What Mo Tse-tung launch in China to purge China of "Counter-revolutionaries" and foreign influences
    Cultural Revolution
  41. who lead Indochinese Communist party of North Vietnam
    Ho Chi Minh
  42. what allowed the U. S. to have involvement in the Vietnam conflicts
    Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
  43. who commanded the US troupes in Vietnam
    William C. Westmoreland
  44. president to send in the first American troupes to Vietnam
    president Johnson
  45. what was Saigon, the capitol of South Vietnam, called
    Ho Chi Minh City
  46. In 1968 what was the large scale attack launched by Vietminh and Viet Cong
    Tet Offensive
  47. "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"
    Edward Teller
  48. French word meaning "reducing tension" or hostility between nations
    détente
  49. who ruled after Nikita Khrushchev for the Soviet Union
    Leonid Brezhnev
  50. who was president Nixon's assistant for national security affairs
    Henry Kissinger
  51. Egyptian president who met with Menachem Begin at Camp David
    Anwar el-Sadat
  52. Treaty between U.S. and Soviet Union limiting all nuclear arm production
    SALT I
  53. what year was the ceasefire ending the Vietnam conflict signed
    January 27, 1973
  54. North Vietnamese supply route through Cambodia
    Ho Chi Minh Trail
  55. The leader of Ethiopia that was overthrown by communists
    Haile Selassie
  56. the first woman to become prime minister of great Britain
    Margret Thatcher
  57. who signed the intermediate nuclear forces treaty with President Reagan in 1987
    Mikhail Gorbachev
  58. who loosened the soviet control over eastern Europe
    Mikhail Gorbachev
  59. president of the Russian republic
    Boris Yeltsin
  60. what country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982
    Argentina
  61. where was the nuclear reactor accident in 1986 that killed 23 people
    Chernobyl
  62. in 1991 former republics banded together to form what
    Commonwealth of Independent States
  63. policy of racial segregation
    apartheid
  64. what did the Reagan doctrine stand for
    a policy of attacking communism before it attack and enslave a country
  65. movement of polish nationalists
    solidarity
  66. word meaning restructuring
    Perestroika
  67. word meaning "openness"
    Glasnost
  68. what year was East and West Germany officially reunited
    October 3, 1990
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