Chapter 24 Quiz

Question 1

A seaside resort on the Russian coast of the Black Sea. Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met together here

Answer 1

Yalta

Question 2

U.S.S.R.

Answer 2

Union of Soviet socialist republics

Question 3

A war fought not with military weapons, but with words and diplomacy

Answer 3

Cold War

Question 4

Declare that the US would provide economic aid to any free country to help it resist Communist aggression

Answer 4

Containment

Question 5

Marshall announced that the US would provide economic assistance to help European nations recover from World War II

Answer 5

Marshall Plan

Question 6

NATO

Answer 6

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 7

The leader of the nationalist government of China who established a free nationalist government on the island of Taiwan

Answer 7

Chang Kai Shek

Question 8

People were forced to work in factories or on large collected farms; people were dying because of starvation

Answer 8

Great Leap Forward

Question 9

Attacked Chinese intellectuals and professionals

Answer 9

Red guards

Question 10

Overseen by the USSR

Answer 10

North Korea

Question 11

Overseen by the US

Answer 11

South Korea

Question 12

Wanted to bomb China’s military bases an gain victory in the Korean War

Answer 12

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 13

Nickname was “hangman of the Ukraine”. Gave the false impression that soviet communism was “mellowing”

Answer 13

Nikita Krishchev

Question 14

Revolutionary surprise attacks by a small volunteer army

Answer 14

Guerilla warfare

Question 15

The important shipping channel built by the US to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans

Answer 15

Panama Canal

Question 16

Signed a treaty promising the Panamanians full control of the canal by the year 2000

Answer 16

Jimmy carter

Question 17

Terrorized the people and smuggled illegal drugs into the US

Answer 17

Manuel Noriega

Question 18

Nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another

Answer 18

Satellites

Question 19

The soviet domination of Eastern Europe

Answer 19

Iron curtain

Question 20

The first man who stepped onto the surface of the moon

Answer 20

Neil Armstrong

Question 21

A grim reminder of the enslavement of men under a Communist system

Answer 21

Berlin Wall

Question 22

Became president of the socialist party

Answer 22

Francois Mitterrand

Question 23

Britain’s first woman prime minister

Answer 23

Margaret Thatcher

Question 24

A Hindu nationalist and spiritual leader trained in London

Answer 24

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 25

The first black African nation to achieve its dependence

Answer 25

Ghana

Question 26

Name one of the three things Mikhail Gorbachev agreed to do

Answer 26

He freed the enslaved nations of Eastern Europe