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HIST 151
Final Matching
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Head of Luftwaffa "Air Force" 1946-suicide | Herman Goering |
| estabished the "uncertainty principle" in 1927 | Werner Heisenberg |
| USAF Gen. Stratigic Air Command (SAC) urges preemptive strike 1950s | Curtis E. Lemay |
| published "The Decline of the West" | Oswald Spengler |
| US Fleet commander Pacific WWII | William Halsey |
| Soviet expert state department 1946-"Containment Policy of USSR" | George Kennan |
| Brazil dictator-president embarked on a program of industialization that created new enterprises | Getulio Vargas |
| CIA helped bring to power in 1953, Islamist influences grew in Iran during his lengthy regime | Mohamad Reza Pahlaui |
| Egyptian military leader, commited to opposing Isreal and taking control of Arab world | Carrol Abdel Nasser |
| A socialist Nicaraguan political party in the 1960-1970s | Sandinistas |
| Nazi arms minister 1942-1945, 1946-1966 prison, "Inside the Third Reich" | Albert Speer |
| Major ethnic group of Afghanistan | Pashtuns |
| "The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money" | John M. Keynes |
| Head of NAzi SS, lead the death camps, 1945 suicide | Heinrich Himmler |
| Austrian neurologist who developed psychoanalysis | Sigmund Freud |
| leader of African National Congress inspired direct action campaigns to protest apartheid | Nelson Mandela |
| C in C British Bomber Comand WWII "city busting" | Arthur Harris |
| Secretary of Defense 2001-2007, special envoy to Iraq 1983 | Donald Rumsfeld |
| film director with revolutionary film techniques; 1935-"Triumph of the Will"-Nazis; 1937-"Olympia"-Berlin Olympics | Leni Riefenstahl |
| Chinese nationalist party; has bee centered in Taiwan since the end of the Chinese Civil War | Guomindang |
| Destruction of thousands of Jewish stores, burning of most synagogues, and the murder of more than 100 Jews throughout Germany and Austria | Kristallnacht |
| Taliban's leading mullah (male religious leader) | Mohammad Omar |
| Japanese Naval officer; lead attack on Pearl Harbor | Mitsuo Fuchida |
| German term meaning "living space"; associated with Hitler and his goal of carving out territory in the East for an expanding Germany | Lebensraum |
| A moral philosophy of tolerance and nonviolence | Ahimsa |
| Britain's prime minister during in the appeasement | Neville Chamberlain |
| political parties and stratigies for mass action took shape under his lead | Kwame Nkrumah |
| The leading proponent of cubism | Pablo Picasso |
| Leader of the USSR in the 1980s; responsible for the opening up of the USSR in social and economic policy | Mikhail Gorbachev |
| US Secretary of State, proposed to rebuild European economy to forstall Soviet influence in the devestated nations of Europe | George C Marshall |
| Overthrew Cuban autocratic Zaldivar; denounced American imperialism | Fidel Castro Ruz |
| 1995-2007 Great Britain Prime Minister | Tony Blair |
| Romainian dictator who savagely repressed demonstrations | Nicolae Ceausesa |
| British politician conservitive; 1979-1990 Prime Minister | Margaret Thatcher |
| 1946- "The Second Sex" | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Jamacian nationalist leader; all African as a single race | Marcus Garvey |
| Mexican artist who used his art to level a pinted critique of the economic dependency and political repressiveness engendered by US neocolonialism in Latin America | Diego Rivera |
| Vietnam's nationalist communist leader | Ho Chi Minh |
| 1938 annexation of Austria into freater Germany by the Nazi regime | Anschluss |
| an eloquent and brillant lawyer who headed the Muslim League | Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
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