Study Guide; Chapters 24-25

Question 1

The UN (United Nations) was organized when?

Answer 1

1945

Question 2

Where was the UN (United Nations) Organized?

Answer 2

New York City

Question 3

What is a lessening of tension or hostility between nations try to work out differences through talks, treaties, etc.?

Answer 3

Détente

Question 4

Which dictator did President George H. W. Bush order American Troops into Panama to liberate and protect the US?

Answer 4

Manuel Noriega

Question 5

Who was Stalin replaced with?

Answer 5

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 6

Who was the first man to walk on the moon?

Answer 6

Neil Armstrong

Question 7

Who was the longest ruling leader of Britain in the 20th century?

Answer 7

Margaret Thatcher

Question 8

What happened in 1950-1953?

Answer 8

Korean War

Question 9

What happened in 1989?

Answer 9

The Berlin Wall opened

Question 10

What happened in 1948?

Answer 10

Israel becomes a Nation

Question 11

When Israel became a nation, who was the leader at this time?

Answer 11

David Ben-Gurion

Question 12

What are neutral nations not yet aligned with either freedom or Communism?

Answer 12

Third World

Question 13

Who advocated “passive resistance” or “civil disobedience” as a peaceful but forceful method for India to get what it wanted from Britain?

Answer 13

Mahatma Gandhi

Question 14

Who served as the military governor of occupied Japan?

Answer 14

General Douglas MacArthur

Question 15

Who was the most influential illustrator of the 20th century?

Answer 15

Norman Rockwell

Question 16

What was the first skyscraper?

Answer 16

Home Insurance Company building

Question 17

Who was the most celebrated American artist of the 20th century?

Answer 17

Andrew Wyeth

Question 18

What focused primarily on the common working man?

Answer 18

Regionalism

Question 19

What is Chicago’s nickname?

Answer 19

The Birthplace of Modern Architecture

Question 20

Who invented the World Wide Web?

Answer 20

Tim Berners-Lee

Question 21

What field deals specifically with the manipulation of atoms and molecules?

Answer 21

Nanotechnology

Question 22

What is the largest and most intricate global project today?

Answer 22

International Space Station (ISS)

Question 23

What month and year did try to join the US and Russia trying to send a man into space?

Answer 23

October, 2003

Question 24

What does GPS stand for?

Answer 24

Global positioning system

Question 25

What does RFID stand for?

Answer 25

Radio frequency identification

Question 26

When did the first assembly of the ISS take place?

Answer 26

1998

Question 27

Who wrote the hiding Place?

Answer 27

Corrie Ten Boom

Question 28

Which country did Saddam Hussein dictate?

Answer 28

Iraq

Question 29

Who followed Mikhail Gorbachev, as the president of the newly organize commonwealth of independent states?

Answer 29

Boris Yeltsin

Question 30

What was introduce as a single currency of EU members that someday would rival the American dollar?

Answer 30

Euro

Question 31

What was NAFTA’s main goal?

Answer 31

Eliminate trade restrictions

Question 32

What is the global push to United Nations of the world?

Answer 32

The New World order (NWO)

Question 33

In what year did every Eastern European nation consider it self independent from the Soviet union?

Answer 33

1991

Question 34

Who led the solidarity movement?

Answer 34

Lech Walesa

Question 35

What system of weaponry was designed to destroy enemy this a warhead in fight it was alarming to the Soviets?

Answer 35

SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)

Question 36

Which Cuban dictator did Fidel Castro overthrow?

Answer 36

Batista

Question 37

What country crossed the 38th parallel invaded South Korea?

Answer 37

North Korea

Question 38

Who led the nationalist government?

Answer 38

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 39

Who moved to Germany toward a vigorous free market economy?

Answer 39

Konrad Adenauer

Question 40

Where did Josip Tito lead an anti-Soviet rebellion?

Answer 40

Yugoslavia

Question 41

What are nations supposedly independent but technically under the dominance of another?

Answer 41

Satellites

Question 42

The Truman doctrine tried to keep what from spreading to the new areas of the world?

Answer 42

Communism

Question 43

Can you take Lexi to Starbucks?

Answer 43

The correct answer will be yes :>