Abeka History Grade 10 Test 11

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New York

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General Assembly, Security Council, Secretariat

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The three major organs of the UN

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Alger Hiss

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implicated as a spy for the Soviet Union

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Cold War

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A war fought not with military weapons but with words, diplomacy, and ideology fought by the "free world" against the "Communist bloc"

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Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

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were convicted of treason and executed in 1953

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Klaus Fuchs

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the director of Britain's nuclear research program who was convicted in 1950 for supplying Moscow with a top-secret trigger mechanism

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Truman Doctrine

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said the United States would aid any free nation to resist communist aggression

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Marshall Plan

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said the United States would lend money to provide massive economic assistance to rebuild Europe after World War II also known as Europe Recovery Plan

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Berlin Airlift

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the Americans established this to save 2 1/4 from starvation

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NATO

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the defense pact formed to prevent further threats of Communism

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Warsaw Pact

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the pact Russia made to counteract NATO

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European Economic Community

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the common market of Western Europe

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Nikita Krushchev

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Leader of Russia denounced Stalin's gruesome tactics giving the false impression that Communism was mellowing

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Marshal Tito

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the dictator of Yugoslavia who established the Soviet sphere of control

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1961

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when was the Berlin Wall the symbol of Soviet Oppression in Eastern Europe built

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Konrad Adenauer

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leader of West Germany

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Charles de Gaulle

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leader of the Free French government during World War II

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Red Brigades

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the group the Communists in Italy organized

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Chiang Kai-shek

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the Nationalist leader of China

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Mao Tse-Tung

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the Communist leader of China

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George C. Marshall

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traveled to China as a special envoy to arrange peace between the Nationalists and Communists

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Taiwan

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where the Chinese Nationalist went after losing the Chinese Civil War

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Great Leap Forward

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China's second five year plan

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Cultural Revolution

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China's attempt to purge the country of all "counter revolutionaries" and foreign influences

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Red Guards

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the group of Chinese young people who formed a gang to prevent Nationalists form coming back to government

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Kim I1 Sung

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North Korean puppet leader during the Korean War

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38th Parallel

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the dividing line between Communist and Nationalist China

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1950

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the year the Korean War began

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Pusan Perimeter

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the battle line in the southeastern corner of Korea

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President Truman

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abruptly removed General MacArthur from command in Korea

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Matthew Ridgeway

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replaced MacArthur as leader in Korea

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General MacArthur

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said "There is no substitute for victory"

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Fidel Castro

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Communist Cuban leader

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John F. Kennedy

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president of the United States during the Bay of Pigs

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Sandinistas

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the group which formed from Cuban aid in Nicaragua

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Juan Peron

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elected president of Argentina

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Salvador Allende

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president of Communist Chile

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May 14, 1948

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the day when Israel became a state

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David Ben-Gurion

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Israel's first prime minister

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OPEC

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formed in 1960 as a monopoly designed to control the supply and price of oil

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Begin and el-Sadat

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Met at the Camp David Accords

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Israel

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agreed to withdraw from the Sinai Peninsula at the Camp David Accords

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Yassir Arafat

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began the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

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the Shah

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the group in Iran that was overthrown in 1979

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Ghana

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first African nation south of the Sahara to gain independence

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Zaire

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the Republic of Congo in 1971

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Haile Selasse I

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leader in Ethiopia who was overthrown by a military coup

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apartheid

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policy of racial segregation

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African National Congress

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A group in South Africa influenced by Marxist agitators

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1975

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the year the Vietnam War officially ended

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Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese Communist man who formed the Indochinese Party

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Ho Chi Minh Trail

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supply route for North Vietnam through Cambodia

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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provided the legal justification for U.S. military involvement in the Vietnam conflict

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1965

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President Johnson sent the first American combat troops to South Vietnam

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William Westmoreland

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the military general of South Vietnam

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Tet Offensive

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the great military offense in 1968 which though American and South Vietnamese troops inflicted overwhelming losses on North Vietnamese the press showed it as a victory for North Vietnam

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policy of limited warfare

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caused Communist victory in Vietnam

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1973

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the year the cease-fire agreement was finally signed in Vietnam

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Ho Chi Minh City

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the capital of Vietnam was renamed from its original name Saigon

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Teller

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father of the Hydrogen Bomb

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detente

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reducing of tension

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Henry Kissinger

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President Nixon's assistant for national security affaits

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Leonid Brezhnev

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succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union

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SALT treaties

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United States and the Soviet Union's agreement of limiting arms

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Margaret Thatcher

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first woman prime minister

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Falkland Islands

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islands which Argentina unsuccessfully invaded

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Reagan Doctrine

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said it would strengthen America's military an offensive policy of preemptive strikes to stop Communism before it could enslave a nation

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Grenada

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the place where the Reagan Doctrine sent troops to prevent Castro from taking as a military base to invade South America

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KAL007

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South Korean airliner that was shot down by Soviet fighter jets

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Chernobyl

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place in Soviet Ukraine that suffered from a nuclear reactor meltdown

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Lech Walesa

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leader of the Polish Solidarity

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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leader of the Soviet Union when Europe freed Russia from the Soviets

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Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

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the treaty which was made when Gorbachev met President Reagan

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Perestroika

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restructuring

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Glasnost

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openness

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Solidarity

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government that free elections in Poland brought to power

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1990

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the date East and West Germany were officially reunited

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Nicolae Ceausescu

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Cruel dictator of Romania

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Tiananmen Square

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place where China Communists soldiers crushed a demonstration

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Boris Yeltsin

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leader of the Russian Republic after the Soviet Union fell

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United States and Soviet Union

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announced that all economic aid to the Soviet Union would cease if the coup succeeded

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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

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the government that the former Soviet Union set up