24.1-24.2 Flashcards
(28 cards)
What was organized in 1945 and invited to build it headquarters where?
The United Nations and New York City
What does U.S.S.R. stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
At what place was the meeting in 1945 with Churchill and Roosevelt (FDR) letting Stalin have his way?
Yalta
What did FDR give the communist leader a chunk of what country?
Poland
What’s a war fought with not with military weapons but with words and diplomacy?
Cold War
What does NATO stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
When was NATO organized?
1949
What are nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another?
Soviet satellites
What city in East Germany was divided into eastern and western sections?
Berlin
When did The Communists build a wall to keep the people of East Berlin from escaping to Western Berlin?
1961
What wall was the first time in history that a wall was built to keep people inside their own country rather than to keep enemies out?
The Berlin Wall
Who moved Germany toward a vigorous free market economy?
Konrad Adenauer
What event happened in by people flying in food and supplies for over a year to save the people of West Berlin?
Operation Airlift
What occurred in 1956 but was firmly put down by the Russians?
The Hungarian Revolt
Who was Britains first woman prime minister?
Margaret Thatcher
After Charles De Gaulles death, was type of state did France move to?
A Socialist State
Who was the longest-ruling leader of Britain in the 20th century?
Margaret Thatcher
What program centered on perfecting human space flight for the purpose of manned lunar landings?
Apollo program
What was the worlds first man made satellite?
Sputnik 1
Who was the first to step on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
What year did the first man to step on the moon occur?
1969
What did the US prove after the Apollo program was a success?
What free man can accomplish
Which war did thousand of Britons volunteer to fight in?
Falklands War
Who was the anti-Soviet rebellion led by in Yugoslavia?
Josip Tito
