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Foreign Policy People WWII to Present
Question | Answer |
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Truman's Secretary of State who proposed massive economic aid to the nations of Europe to recover from WWII | George Marshall |
Filipino leader ousted after a fraudulent election and the Reagan administration withdrew its support | Ferdinand Marcos |
Libyan dictator who sponsored terrorism against Americans; Reagan responded by bombing Libyan sites in 1986 | Muammar Qaddafi |
American charge d'affairs in Moscow who advised a policy of restricting Soviet Expansion | George F. Kennan |
Leader of Chinese Communists | Mao Tse-tung |
Leader of the Nationalists in China who led to Formosa after losing the Chinese Civil War | Chiang Kai-shek |
Nixon's Secretary of State who used "shuttle diplomacy" to mediate between Israel and Arab nations to end the Yom Kippur War | Henry Kissinger |
Communist leader of the North Vietnamese | Ho Chi Minh |
Accused the State Department and the Army of harboring communists; later censored by the senate | Joseph McCarthy |
Leader of Iranian revolution | Ayatollah Khomeini |
State Department official convicted of perjury for denying that he had been a member of the Communist party in the 1930s | Alger Hiss |
Found guilty of spying for the Soviets; electrocuted in 1953 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg |
Secretary of State under Eisenhower who supported the principles of massive retaliation, brinksmanship, and preemptive strike | John Foster Dulles |
President who initiated a transfer the Panama Canal and the Canal Zone to the Panamanians | Jimmy Carter |
Panamanian dictator ousted by the US under the first President Bush | Manuel Noriega |
Israeli prime minister assassinated in 1995 | Yitzak Rabin |
Soviet leader led a policy of perestroika or restructuring and called for openness in government, glasnost | Mikhail Gorbachev |
General who wanted to invade China during the Korean War | Douglas MacArthur |