Chapter 18 and 19 (section 4, section 3,4,5)

Question 1

1917 letter from a British foreign secretary who seemed to make promises to both Zionists and Palestinians

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Balfour Declaration

Question 2

This occurred in 1956 when Egyptian president Gamal Nasser seized control of certain French and British business interests in Egypt

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Suez Crisis

Question 3

This resulted in Israel’s 1967 annexation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights, Jerusalem, and the West Bank

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Six-Day War

Question 4

In 1978, this Israeli prime minister signed the Camp David Accords and agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt

Answer 4

Menachem Begin

Question 5

This Egyptian president signed the Camp David Accords and recognized Israel as a legitimate state, enraging many Arabs

Answer 5

Anwar Sadat

Question 6

This Egyptian president took office after the assassination of Anwar Sadat by Muslim extremists in 1981; he kept the peace with Israel

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Hosni Mubarak

Question 7

In the 1970s and 1980s, this group’s military wing conducted a violent campaign against Israel, which, in turn, bombed Palestinian towns thought to be the group’s strongholds

Answer 7

PLO

Question 8

In the late 1980’s, Palestinians began this “uprising,” a campaign of civil disobedience that succeeded in putting international pressure on Israel

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intifada

Question 9

This Palestinian leader took part in reaching the Oslo peace agreement

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Yasir Arafat

Question 10

This Israeli prime minister signed the Oslo peace agreement and was assassinated in 1995 by a Jewish extremist

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Yitzhak Rabin

Question 11

Before 1990, the most powerful policy-making body in the Soviet Union was

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the Politburo

Question 12

The reforms that led to democratization of the Soviet Union were begun by

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Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 13

What did NOT occur in response to glasnost?

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criticism of the government by the media

Question 14

The purpose of perestroika was to…

Answer 14

Revive the Soviet economy

Question 15

The end result of the August coup attempt was to increase the power of…

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Boris Yeltsin

Question 16

Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, or CIS, had all formerly been…

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part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Question 17

Yeltsin’s “shock therapy” plan required the Russian government to

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dramatically reduce its involvement in the economy

Question 18

After the Communist party in his nation lost power, Lech Walesa became the first freely elected leader of

Answer 18

Poland

Question 19

Although the group known as Solidarity eventually obtained wide public support and political power, it began as simply an organization of

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workers

Question 20

Some European nations were hesitant to support reunification of Germany because of fears that would

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attempt to dominate Europe

Question 21

Vaclav Havel was elected president of

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Czechoslovakia

Question 22

Yugoslavia was led from 1945 to 1980 by

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Josip Tito

Question 23

The brutal policy of ethnic cleansing was most widely used against

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Bosnian Muslims

Question 24

The main purpose of the Cultural Revolution was to

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preserve revolutionary Communist values

Question 25

The Chinese premier who made the first overtures toward establishing a more open relationship with the West was

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Zhou Enlai

Question 26

The program that Deng Xiaoping embraced and referred to as the "second revolution" included the goals of the

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Four Modernizations

Question 27

the students who were killed in tiananmen Square were protesting the Chinese government's

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lack of political freedom

Question 28

The government's response to the protest in Tiananmen Square did NOT result in...

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disruption of China's economic progress

Question 29

Mao Zedong, Zhou Enlai, and Deng Xiaoping were all

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participants in the war between Communists and Nationalists