World History 10- Chapter 26(The Cold War: Years of Conflict)
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Moscow Declaration | What did the signatories sign that pledged to establish "a general international organization for the maintenance of international peace and security"? |
| Dumbarton Oaks | Where were more concrete plans for a United Nations organization were drawn up? |
| San Francisco | Where was the first meeting of the United Nations held? |
| London | Where was the first official meeting of the United Nations held? |
| New York City | What was the United Nation's permanent headquarters located? |
| General Assembly, Security Council, and the Secretariat | Name the three major organs of the United Nations. |
| General Assembly | What is comprised of all the members of the state? |
| Security Council | What is comprised of the five permanent members? |
| United States, Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and China. | What are the five permanent members of the Security Council? |
| Secretariat | What is made up of the secretary-general and his under-secretaries? Wow...That question kind of gives it away. Lol. C: |
| Andrei Gromyko | Who was the head of Communist Russia's delegation? |
| Alger Hiss | Who was an official at the U.S. State Department and was later implicated as a spy fro the Soviet Union? |
| "Cold War" | what was a war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, and ideology? |
| Free World | What stood in opposition to the human slavery of international Communist? |
| Communist bloc | What was dominated by the Soviet Union? |
| Third World | What was the emerging nation not quite lined up with the free world and the Communist bloc? |
| "Satellite" nations | What were nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another? |
| Harry Hopkins | Who was the director of Lend-Lease and a confidant of FDR, and also used Lend-Lease shipments to sent top-secret information and materials to the Soviets? |
| Julius and Ethel Rosenberg | Which couple were convicted of treason in 1951 and executed in 1953 for passing vital information to Russian agents? |
| Klaus Fuchs | Who was the director if Britain's nuclear research program? He was convicted for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism that would detonate the atomic bomb? |
| Alger Hiss | Who was convicted of perjury for denying that he had helped transfer secret U.S. State Department documents to a Soviet agent before WWII? |
| Joseph McCarthy | Who was the U.S. government senator that exposed much Communist activity in the State Department? |
| Containment | What was the policy that declared that the United States would provide economic aid to help any free nation resist Communist aggression? |
| Truman Doctrine | What is another name for the policy of containment? |
| Marshall Plan | What plan provided economical assistance to rebuild Europe after WWII? |
| Marshall Plan | What plan extended credits amounting to $20 billion over the next four years in the name of providing a bulwark against further Communist expansion in Europe? |
| COMECON | What provided the Soviet Union with another opportunity to exploit its satellite nations as a cheap source of raw materials and a ready market for manufactured goods? |
| Berlin | Which city did the Americans come to rescue? Lol- I had no other way to put that. :P |
| North Atlantic Trade Organization | What does NATO stand for? |
| 1949 | When was the North Atlantic Treaty signed? |
| Warsaw Pact | What was formed as a "defensive" military alliance of its own in Eastern Europe? |
| Nikita Khrushchev | Who replaced Stalin as leader? |
| Marshal Tito | Who was the dictator of Yugoslavia? |
| 1956 | When was the Hungarian Revolt? |
| Berlin Wall | What was the symbol of Soviet oppression in Europe? |
| British Commonwealth of Nations | What was established prior to WWII that several of Britain's colonies and possessions looked to become independent of British control? |
| Charles de Gaulle | Who was the leader of the Free French government during WWI? |
| Charles de Gaulle | Who returned to power and helped write a new constitution, establishing the Fifth Republic? |
| Francois Mitterand | Who became the president of France? |
| Alcide De Gasperi | Who was the conservative statesman of Italy? |
| Red Brigades | What organization was formed by some Communists and some terrorists that kidnapped and murdered Italian premier Aldo Moro? |
| Juan Carlos | Who became president of France when Francois Mitterand died? |
| Chiang Kai-shek | Who was leader of the Chinese Nationalists? |
| Mao Tse-Tung | Who was leader of the Chinese Communists? |
| George Marshall | Who traveled to China as a special envoy to arrange peace between the Nationalists and the Communists? |
| George Marshall | Who imposed an embargo on teh Nationalists after visiting China? |
| Taiwan | Where did Chiang and his Nationalist flee too? |
| Five Year Plan | What was Mao's small goal to increase agricultural productivity? |
| Great Leap Forward | What was China's second Five-Year Plan called? |
| Cultural Revolution | What got rid of everything "Western" in China? |
| Red guards | What was a group made up of students and young people that filled China's streets with noisy demonstations, marches, and protests, and attacked Chinese intellectuals and professionals? |
| Mao's widow | Who led the "Gang of Four"? |
| Deng Xaioping | Who emerged as Communist China's most powerful leader? |
| Kim Il-Sung | Who was the dictator of North Korea? |
| Syngman Rhee | Who became president of South Korea? |
| Douglas MacArthur | Who became the supreme commander of all United States and United Nations forces? |
| Pusan Perimeter | What was the defensive wall in South Korea that held of the North Korean Communists? |
| Inchon | Where did General Dougles MacArthus surprise the enemy? |
| North Korea remained Communist and South Korea remained free | What was the result of the Korean War? |
| Fulgencio Batista | Who was the dictator of Cuba? |
| Fidel Castro | Which young Cuban had a record of violence and revolutionary activity and attempted to start a revolution against the Batista government? |
| Cuba | What was the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere? |
| John F. Kennedy | Which president failed to keep his promise of an air support to the Cuban exiles that invaded Cuba? |
| John F. Kennedy | Who was president during the Bay of Pigs? |
| Cuban Missile Crisis | What was when the Soviet Union was using Cuba as a base to bomb the U.S.? |
| Nicaragua | Where did the Sandinistas overthrow the Somoza government? |
| Sandinistas | Who overthrew the Somoza government? |
| Somoza | What government was overthrown by the Sandinistas? |
| Juan Peron | Who led a military overthrow of the government in Argentina? |
| Juan Peron | Who became president of Argentina? |
| Isabel Peron | Who became the first woman to head a government in the Western Hemisphere? |
| Brazil | Which country was called the "Sleeping Giant"? |
| Chile | Which country became the first non-Communist country that elected an avowed Marxist to come to power through an elective process? |
| Salvador Allende | Who became president of Chile? |
| Augusto Pinochet | Who succeeded Allende as president? |
| oil | What valuable mineral resource was discovered in Mexico? |
| 1948 | When did Isreal become a nation state? |
| Chaim Weizmann | Who became the first president of Israel? |
| David Ben-Gurion | Who became Israel's first prime minister? |
| Gamal Nasser | Which Egyptian president seized the Suez Canal from teh British and the French? |
| Eisenhower Doctrine | What document permitted the American President to "use armed force to assist any nation in teh Middle East requesting assistance against armed aggression from any country controlled by International Communism? |
| Israel | Who won the Six-Day was? |
| 1976 | When was the Six-Day War? |
| Israel | Who won the Yom Kippur War? |
| 1973-1974 | When was the Yom Kippur War? |
| OPEC | What was formed as a monopoly designed to control the supply and price of oil? |
| Egypt and Israel | What two nations signed the Camp David Accords? |
| Mohommed Shah | Who was the Communist ruler of Iran? |
| Saddam Hussein | Who became dictator of Iraq? |
| Ghana | What became the first African nation sourth of the Sagara to gain independence? |
| Kwame Nkrumah | Who became the prime minister of Ghana? |
| Patrice Lumumba | Who led the Republic of the Congo? |
| Dr. Paul Carson | Who was the American medical missionary that was held hostage and eventually killed? |
| Zaire | What did the Republic of the Congo change it's name too? |
| Haile Selassie | Who became the emperor of Ethiopia? |
| apartheid | What policy ignored the atrocities of Marxist terrorists against the black African communities? |
| Ho Chi Minh | Who was the leader of the Vietnamese Communists? |
| 1957-1975 | Give the dates for the Vietnam War. |
| Ngo Dinh Diem | Who became president of South Vietnam? |
| Ho Chi Minh Trail | How did the Vietminh supply the Viet Cong? |
| Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | What document provided the legal justification for U.S. military involvement in teh Vietnam conflict? |
| 1965 | When did President Johnson send the first American combat troops to South Vietnam to protect American bases? |
| William Westmoreland | How commanded the U.S. troops in South Vietnam? |
| Tet Offensive | What was a large-scale attack against the South Vietnamese cities from the North Koreans? |
| 1973 | When did the Viet Cong sign a cease-fire agreement? |
| 1975 | When did Saigon fall to the North Vietnamese? |
| Edward Teller | Who was known as the "Father of the Hydrogen Bomb"? |
| Robert Oppenheimer | Who was the pro-Communist top consultant to the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission that helped develop the atomic bomb and now expressed "humanitarian" concern at the proliferation of nuclear weapons? |
| Nuclear blackmail | What was it called when the Soviets had more nukes thatn us and threatened to bomb us if we didn't comply with them? |
| detente | What is the word that conveys the idea of reducing rension or hostility between nations? |
| Henry Kissinger | Who was President Nixon's assistant for national security affairs? |
| Leonid Brezhnev | Who succeeded Nikita Khrushchev? |
| Helsinki Agreements | What document promised greater "economic cooperation" and "cultural exchanges"? |
| Brezhnev Doctrine | What is the other name for the Helsinki Agreements? |
| Sputnik I | What was the world's first man-made satellite? |
| Yuri Gagarin | Who became the first man in space? |
| 1969 | When did Neil Armstrong land on the moon? |
| Neil Armstrong | Who was the first guy to land on the moon? |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Who had been imprisoned in teh Soviet Union for exposing the cruelties of Communism through his writings? |
| SALT | What treaty agreed to limit the production of nuclear arms? |
| Strategic Arms Limitation Talks | What does SALT mean? |
| Afghanistan | What country was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979? |
| Margaret Thatcher | Who became Britain's first woman prime minister? |
| Ronald Reagan | Who was the first conservative president of the United States? |
| Falkland Islands | Who did Argentina invade in 1982? |
| Reagan Doctrine | What was an offensive policy of preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could attack and enslave a country? |
| Grenada | What was the first major test of the Reagan Doctrine? |
| KAL 007 | Which commercial airliner was shot down because it crossed Soviet lines? |
| KAL 007 | What was an example of Communist cruelty? |
| Strategic Defense Initiative | What was a system of space-age weaponry designed to destroy enemy intercontinental ballistic missiles in flight? |
| "Star Wars program" | What was the nickname for the Strategic Defense Initiative? |
| Solidarity | What was a group of Polish nationalists? |
| Lech Walesa | Who led the Solidarity? |
| Gorbachev | Who came to power as the leader of the Soviet Union? |
| Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty | What did Gorbachev and the U.S. and other nations sign agreeing to remove their medium-range missiles from Europe? |
| Chernobyl | What was the nuclear reactor accident? |
| Perestroika | What word means "restructuring"? |
| Perestroika | What was the Soviets plan of rebuilding its economic and political system on a democratic, free enterprise model? |
| Glasnost | What word means "openness"? |
| Glasnost | What policy did the Soviets adopt claiming that they wanted world peace and had no more plans of conquest? |
| 1989 | When did the Communist begin to lose control of Eastern Europe? |
| 1990 | When were East and West Germany officially reunited? |
| Nicolae Ceausescu | Who was executed when Communism overthrew Russia? |
| Tiananmen Square | Where was the place where students and workers gathered in a great demonstration for freedom? |
| Boris Yeltsin | You became president of Russia? |
| Commonwealth of Independent States | Most of the former SOviet republics had banded together to form what where the Soviet Union had ceased to exist as a nation? |
| Boris Yeltsin | Who fled Russia when the Soviet Union collapsed? |
| Sputnik 1 | What was the world's first man-made satellite? |
| Yuri Gagarin | Who became the first person to travel in space? |
| Neil Armstrong | Who was the first person to walk on the moon? |
| 1969 | When did Neil Armstron walk on the moon? |
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