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Post-War Europe
Post-War Europe to the Present Part II
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Egypt's second president following Muhammad Naguib, he nationalized the Suez Canal and was a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement. | Gamal Abdel Nasser |
| An event precipitated by Nasser's nationalization of the titular object, leading to an invasion of Egypt by French, British, and Israeli forces. | Suez Canal Crisis |
| A 1967 conflict that saw Israel win control of the Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, and the West Bank among other territories. | Six-Day War |
| A 1973 conflict that saw Israel pitted against a coalition of Arab states. Israel won and the Camp David Accords occured shortly thereafter. | Yom-Kippur War |
| A retaliatory effort organized among Arab states in response to US involvement in the Yom-Kippur War, leading to heightened oil prices worldwide. | Arab Oil Embargo |
| The first president of Indonesia who eventually declared himself President for Life and strengthened ties between Indonesia and China before being overthrown. | Sukarno |
| First Communist leader of China. | Mao Tse-Tung |
| The Chinese nationalist party founded by Sun Yat-Sen and led by Chiang Kai-shek during the Chinese Civil War. Currently located in Taiwan. | Kuomintang Party |
| An island off the southeast Coast of China, controlled by the Republic of China since the late 40s. | Taiwan |
| A cold war conflict sparked by the division of the titular nation at the 38th Parallel | Korean War |
| A program that sought to industrialize China but led to massive food shortages among rural peasants and saw little success. | Great Leap Forward |
| A siege at this location resulted in the expulsion of the French from contemporary Vietnam, and led to the partition of Vietnam into North and South. | Dien Bien Phu |
| 1954 Accords that required France to depart from its former colonies in Indochina. | Geneva Accords |
| The current ruling political party in South Africa, formed in 1912 in response to vicious apartheid laws. | African National Congress |
| A conflict lasting throughout much of the 1950s in Kenya between the titular group and the combined forces of Britain and Kikuyu Loyalists. | Mau Mau Uprising |
| The nation at the southermost tip of Africa. Not to be confused with Northern, Eastern, and Western brothers. | South Africa |
| A nation in South Africa that unilaterally declared independence from Africa in 1965 and later became Zimbabwe. | Rhodesia |
| South Africa's state-sanctioned system of racial segregation | Apartheid |
| The process of returning a foreigner to their country of origin. | Repatriation |
| A 1975 conference that saw a great reduction of tensions between the West and the Soviet Union | Helsinki Accords |
| Communist General Secretary for fifteen months during the early 80s. Relations with the US deterioriated under his leadership. | Yuri Andropov |
| Another short-lived General Secretary following Andropov, he was responsible for the Soviet Union's boycott of the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles. | Konstantin Chernenko |
| The process of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. | Detente |
| The last leader of the USSR before its 1991 collapse he advocated reforms such as glasnost and perestroika during his leadership. | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| Political reforms proposed by Gorbachev that advocated, among other things, granting political offices to Non-Party members | Perestroika |
| Reforms in both the economic and social spheres that saw increased freedom of speech for Soviet citizens and private ownership of businesses in some sectors. | Glasnost |
| A 1986 summit between Gorbachev and Reagan occured in this capital of Iceland | Rejkjavik |
| A Polish trade union that resisted the Polish Communist government and eventually formed a coalition government. | Solidarity |
| The leader of Solidarity and Poland's first Post-Communist president | Lech Walesa |
| Polish-born Pope who supported Solidarity and was the predecessor to Pope Benedict XVI. | Pope John Paul II |
| A series of revolutions in this year overthrew Communist governments in Eastern Europe | 1989 |
| The name given to the 1989 non-violent Czechoslovakian revolution that overthrew the Communist Party in that nation. | Velvet Revolution |
| A leader of the Velvet Revolution this man was the last president of a unified Czechoslovakia and became the first president of the Czech Republic | Vaclav Havel |
| Secretary of the Romanian Communist Party famous for his cult of personality. Eventually murdered in the middle of Romania's 1989 anti-Communist revolution | Nicolae Ceausescu |
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