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WS 2 ppl pt 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| macarthur | us general; pacific troops; rebuilt japan; fought korean war |
| marshall | had plan to rebuild Western europe after WW2 |
| eisenhower | us general in charge of DDay; allied commander in europe |
| churchill | british prime minister; hated appeasement; at yalta |
| ronald reagan | helped end the cold war by building up US military |
| mikhail gorbachev | helped end cold war by letting his people see the west; glasnost and peresroika |
| fidel castro | communist dictator of cuba; allowed USSR to put missles there |
| mao | led communist china |
| chiang | led nationalist in china; fled to taiwan after losing |
| ho chi minh | led communist in vietnam |
| gandhi | led passive resistance against british rule in india |
| kenyatta | led fight against britsh for independece for his country; kenya named after him |
| mandela | south african who led the struggle against the apartheid and became the first black president |
| indira gandhi | closer relationship between india and the ussr; developed nuclear power program |
| margaret thatcher | british prime minister; close relationship with the US and asserted britain's military power; free trade and less government regulation of business |
| den xiaoping | reformed communist economy to a market economy leading to rapid economic growth |