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World History 3333
World Since 1945
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1 Berlin Wall | A barrier constructed by East Germany on 13 August 1961, that completely separated West Germany from surrounding East Germany. |
| 2 Nuetralism and non-alignment | India's freedom of action internationally through refusal to align India with any bloc or alliance, particularly those led by the United States or the Soviet Union. |
| 3 Jawaharlal Nehru | 1st Prime Minister of India from 1947 until 1964. One of the leading figures in the Indian independence movement. |
| 4 Gamal Abdul Nesser | Egyptian revolutionist that successfully drove British out of his country after 72 years of rule. |
| 5 Kwame Nkrumah | He was the first President of Ghana and the first Prime Minister of Ghana. An influential 20th century advocate of Pan-Africanism. |
| 6 Sukarno | Sukarno was the leader of his country's struggle for independence from the Netherlands and was Indonesia's first President from 1945 to 1967. |
| 7 Josef Broz Tito | 1st President of Yugoslavia, 1st Secretary-General of the Non-Aligned Movement. |
| 8 Fidel/ Raul Castro | Fidel President of Cuba, Prime Minister of Cuba, primary leader of the Cuban Revolution. Raul the current President of Cuba, The younger brother of Fidel Castro |
| 9 Eisenhower Doctrine | a speech by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957 |
| 10 MAD (MUTUAL ASSURED DESTRUCTION) | A doctrine of military strategy and national security policy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two opposing sides would effectively result in the destruction of both the attacker and the defender. |
| 11 De-stalinization | Process of eliminating the cult of personality, Stalinist political system and the Gulag-based economy created by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. |
| 12 Wars of Natural Liberation | Conflicts fought by oppressed nationalities against imperial powers to establish separate sovereign states for the subjugated nationality. |
| 13 Special Forces/ Green Berets | Terms used to describe elite military tactical teams trained to perform high-risk dangerous missions that conventional units cannot perform Official headgear of the British Commandos of World War II. |
| 14 Kithcen Debate | Was an impromptu debate between Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, on July 24, 1959. |
| 15 Joeseph Stalin | Was the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from late 1922 until his death on march 5 1953. |
| 16 Nikita Kruchev | Led the Soviet Union during part of the Cold War |
| 17 Dwight (IKE) Eisonhower | The 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961 |
| 18 John/ Robert Kennedy | JFK the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963 Robert An American politician, a Democratic senator from New York, and a noted civil rights activist. From 1961 to 1964, he was the U.S. Attorney General. |
| 19 Ernesto Che Guevara | Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist. A major figure of the Cuban Revolution, |
| 20 Tonkin Gulf | involving North Vietnam and the United States in the waters of the Gulf of Tonkin. A sea battle resulted. |
| 21 17th/38th Parallel | 17th a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the demarcation line between North and South Vietnam 38th a circle of latitude in the Northern Hemisphere, used as the pre-Korean War boundary between North Korea and South Korea |
| 22 Venona | A long-running secret collaboration of the United States and United Kingdom intelligence agencies involving cryptanalysis of messages sent by intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union, the majority during World War II. |
| 23 H-Bomb | Hydrogen bomb" because it was the breakthrough that made weapons based on hydrogen fusion possible. |
| 24 Sputnik | Name of a group of various robotic spacecraft missions launched by the Soviet Union. The first of these, Sputnik 1 |
| 25 ICBM, IRBM, MRBM | ICBM: intercontinental ballistic missile(ICBM) is a ballistic missile with a long range IRBM: intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) is a ballistic missile MRBM: medium-range ballistic missile (MRBM), is a missile that can carry a nuclear weapon |
| 26 Missile Gap | Term used in the United States for the perceived disparity between the number and power of the weapons in the U.S.S.R. and U.S. ballistic missile arsenals during the Cold War. |
| 27 Talfins | |
| 28 Autobahns | Nationally coordinated motorway system in Germany. Federal way for cars. |
| 29 Levittown | Name of four large suburban developments created in the United States of America. |
| 30 NDEA | National Defense Education Act (NDEA), signed into law on September 2, 1958, provided funding to United States education institutions at all levels. |
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