World History Unit 8 Test Review – Flashcards
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Who authorized the use of atomic bombs against Japan?
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Harry Truman (USA)
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Who was a General in the Pacific?
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General Douglas MacArthur (USA)
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Who was a leader with Gandhi in the struggle for home rule and was the first prime minister of the Republic of India?
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Jawaharlal Nehru (india)
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Who was a part of the Great Leap Forward?
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Mao Zedong (China)
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Who was in the chinese civil war and was defeated by chinese communists?
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Chiang kai-shek/ Jiang Jeishi (china)
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Who was a part of pan-africanism?
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Kwame Nkrumah (ghana)
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who was a soviet statesman and premier who denounced Stalin?
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Nikita Krushchev (Soviet Union)
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who brought an end to the cold war?
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Mikhail Gorbachev (Soviet Union)
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who was the daughter of Nehru who served as prime minister of India?
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Indira Gandhi (india)
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who was the first woman to serve as prime minister?
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Margaret Thatcher (united Kingdom)
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what was banned by the south african government?
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African National Congress
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Organization of the petroleum exporting countries
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OPEC
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what promoted international trade and economic development by reducing tariffs and other restrictions?
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World Trade Organization
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what was a square in the center of Beijing adjacent to the forbidden city?
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Tiananmen Square
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what had negotiations between the US and the soviet union aimed at the limitation or reduction of nuclear amaments?
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SALT
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what dealt with Karl Marx saying all property is publicly owned?
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Communism
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who was a socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a marxist socialist state?
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Fidel Castro (Cuba)
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who was released from prison to become the nations first democratically elected president?
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Nelson Mandela (South Africa)
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who wa the 37th president and resigned after the watergate scandal?
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Richard Nixon (USA)
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who ws the leader of the PLO?
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Yasser Arafat (palestine)
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what was tried by Yeltsins government?
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shock therapy
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what was an economic and social campaign of the chinese communist party?
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Great Leap Forward
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what was a mass expulsion or killing of members of an ethnic or religious group in a society?
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Ethnic Cleansing
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what was the cold war?
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war between America and the soviet union, there was no real fighting
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what did winston churchill mean when he said there was an iron curtain?
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the USSR was blocked off from the rest of the world
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what does America do to stop the spread of communism?
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containment, marshall plan, truman doctrine
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How is Germany divided after WWII wnad what countries got a piece of it?
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Berlin wall; England, soviet union, US, France
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What is NATO and what does the USSR do in response to it being created?
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization; created the warsaw pact
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Who were the 2 sides in the Korean War?
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North and South Korea; nobody won
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What was the cuban missile crisis?
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soviets brought in troops and told them they were staying
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what is the significance of the 38th parallel?
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line that divided korea- soviet union occupied the north and the US occupied the south
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Explain the dispute over Kashmir
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is a territorial dispute between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir region.
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Why was the Berlin Wall built?
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stopped skilled labor workers from crossing over
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What was the Balfour Declaration?
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report resulting from the 1926 imperial conference of british empire leaders in London
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Why was the creation of the country of Israel such a problem?
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palestinians were not wanting to give up land
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who ultimately decided to "give" the Jews back there homeland?
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United Nations
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What did the Oslo Peace Accords do?
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1993, set up a framework; led to the resolution of the ongoing israeli-palestinian conflict
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What is the DMZ?
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an area from which warring parties agree to remove their military forces
