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EVCS 7 Hist Final P2
EVCS 7 History Final Test Part 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was elected to President with only 43% of popular vote? | Bill Clinton |
| What connects England to France? | Chunnel |
| What was the shortest war in US History | Operation Desert Storm |
| Where was Tiananaman Square? | China |
| Who became President after Ronald Reagan? | George Bush |
| Who was the first black president of South Africa? | Nelson Mandela |
| Who was the prime minister of Canada? | Kim Campbell |
| In 1994 Who led the Republican Congress? | Newt Gingrich |
| What percent of the worlds trade is conducted in the Pacific Rim? | 50% |
| Who started the Persian Gulf War by invading Kuwait? | Suddam Hussein |
| What is the most important African country? | South Africa |
| What country was not affected by NAFTA? | Brazil |
| What is NAFTA? | North American Free Trade Agreement |
| Japan, Korea, and China are part of the what? | Pacific Rim |
| What was used to drill the Chunnel? | Laser Technology |
| What was discovered in Mexico that greatly increased their wealth? | Oil |
| President Reagan believed in? | LESS Government control |
| Who led solidarity in Poland? | Lech Walesa |
| Who was the conservative prime minister of England elected in 1979? | Margaret Thatcher |
| President Reagans ideas were called? | Reaganomics |
| US Troops liberated what Caribbean island?? | Grenada |
| The longest economic growth since WWII was during which president's time? | Reagan |
| Who attemted to save the Soviet Union by instituting Perestroika? | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| What city was reunited in 1990 when the wall was torn down? | Berlin |
| What does Perestroika mean? | Restructuring |
| Who was the cruel dictator of Romania? | Ceausescu |
| Where were the demonstrations by university students in China? | Tiananmen Square |
| How long did the Gulf War Last? | 2.5 months |
| Who was in Command of desert storm? | Colin Powell |
| What was the purpose of desert storm? | To protect Arab nations. |
| What nation did the world look to for leadership after WWI? | US |
| Which philosopher formulated psychoanalysis, which denied man￢ﾀﾙs reason, faith, and feeling? | Freud |
| What did Adolf Hitler call his first dictatorship of Germany? | Third Reich |
| Who was the fascist dictator of Italy? | Benito Mussolini |
| Who was the American President at the start of the Great Depression? | Herbert Hoover |
| Who made the first non-stop transatlantic flight in 1927? | Charles Lindbergh |
| Who was the leader of Nazi Germany? | Adolf Hitler |
| What American President proposed the New Deal to help end the Great Depression? | Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| What became a symbol of the prosperous Twenties? | Automobile |
| Name six men who were great American Defenders of Christianity? | Harry Rimmer, G. Campbell Morgan, RA Torrey, J Gresham Machen, Billy Sunday, Gypsy Smith |
| What is the name for German socialism? | Nazism |
| Who refused to join the League of Nations? | US |
| What was the worst economic times US has every experienced? | The Great Depression |
| When was the Great Depression? | 1930-1940 |
| Who recognize the Communist government of the Soviet Union for the US? | President Roosevelt |
| What were the members of the Nazi militia called? | Storm Troopers |
| Who was the Soviet Leader during WWII? | Joseph Stalin |
| What religious group did the Nazis persecute mercilessly? | Jews |
| Who Organized the Free French Government? | Charles de Gaulle |
| When did V-E and V-J day take place? | 1945 |
| What German word means ￢ﾀﾜlightning war￢ﾀﾝ? | Blitzkrieg |
| Who was prime minister of Great Britain during WWII? | Winston Churchill |
| What 3 countries were in the Axis Powers? | Japan, Germany, Italy |
| When did the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor? | Dec 7 1941 |
| Who signed the Nazi-Soviet Pact with Hitler? | Joseph Stalin |
| What was the first city bombed with an atomic weapon? | Hiroshima |
| In which Battle did the enemy ships never see each other? | Battle of Coral Sea |
| Name the city that was constantly bombed during the Battle of Britain? | London |
| Chiang Kai-shek was the Nationalist leader of______? | China |
| Who was the emperor of Ethiopia who fought the Italian invasion? | Haile Selassie |
| What battle was the last great German offensive of WWII? | Battle of the Bulge |
| Which prime minister gave in to Hitler￢ﾀﾙs demands? | Neville Chamberlain |
| Who Led revolutionary forces in Spain? | Francisco Franco |
| Who was the British General who fought in North Africa? | Sir Bernard Montgomery |
| Who was the great American general in the Pacific and Korean War? | Douglas MacArthur |
| Who was the Japanese pilot who became a Christian? | Mitsuo Fuchida |
| What was the name given to the slaughter of millions of Jews by the Nazis? | Holocaust |
| Who was chosen to head up the D-Day invasion of Europe? | Dwight D Eisenhower |
| The Common Market was an effort to unite ____________? | Europe |
| Where is the UN Headquarters? | New York |
| Which war ended with neither side winning? | Korean |
| What was formed to stop communism? | NATO |
| What war was fought with words instead of weapons? | Cold War |
| Mao Tse-tung was a Communist dictator of ________? | China |
| What type of government does South Korea have today? | Free Government |
| Who was the Soviet Dictator who enslaved Eastern Europe with Communism after WWII? | Stalin |
| What country has the canal that connects the Pacific with the Atlantic? | Panama |
| What General said there is no substitute for victory? | Douglas MacArthur |
| Who was the Communist dictator of Cuba? | Fidel Castro |
| Who led the Nationalist Free forces in China? | Chiang Kai-shek |
| What is known as an Oil Monopoly? | OPEC |
| What country aided the Communist takeover in China? | Soviet Union |
| The Marshall Plan said ______ would help rebuild Europe after WWII. | US |
| What does NATO stand for? | North American Treaty Organization |
| Great Britain defeated who in the Falklands War? | Argentina |
| What nation was divided by Communism after WWII? | Germany |
| Operation Airlift supplied what city with supplies? | Berlin |
| Who was the first man to walk on the moon? | Neil Armstrong |
| What is the lessoning of hostilities between nations? | Dￃﾩtente |
| Charles de Gaulle was president of what country? | France |
| Francisco Franco was dictator of what country? | Spain |
| David Ben-Gurion was the leader of what nation-state country? | Israel |
| Margaret Thatcher was the first woman prime minister of what country? | Great Britain |
| What was used to separate East and West Berlin? | Berlin Wall |
| Who said the ￢ﾀﾜiron curtain￢ﾀﾝ divides the free and Communist Europe? | Churchill |
| What was the neutral nation in the Alps? | Switzerland |
| When did communism come to the doorstep of America? | In Cuba |
| What divides North and South Vietnam? | 17th Parallel |
| What is the Home of the Jews? | Palestine |
| What was the worlds first man made satellite? | Sputnik I |
| What was the Invasion of Cuba called? | Bay of Pigs |
| What us President ordered air strikes over Vietnam? | Lyndon B Johnson |
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