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Study Helps for Test over Chapters 31-36
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Black South Africans used nonviolent resistance to protest what? | Unjust Laws |
| What country did the US and the Soviet Union agree to split in half by drawing an imaginary line at the 38th Parallel? | Korea |
| Which city was divided in half by a huge fence built in 1961? | Berlin |
| What was the name of the French-controlled colony in the southern part of Vietnam? | Cochin China |
| Where did Mao Zedong become the chairman of the communists? | China |
| The eastern part of the Congo declared itself independent. What was it called? | Katanga |
| Who was arrested for refusing to give up a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama? | Rosa Parks |
| Who was assassinated first, John F. Kennedy or Martin Luther King, Jr.? | John F. Kennedy |
| Vietnam was divided into two portions at the end of what war? | French Indochina |
| Who fled Argentina and went first to Paraguay and then Spain? | Juan Peron |
| In which country did Ho Chi Minh fight the French and the Japanese? | Vietnam |
| In which country did Nasser close the Suez Canal? | Egypt |
| Which people agreed with Hitler’s views about superior white civilization and formed the National Party in South Africa? | Afrikaners |
| He gained control over the government and began to turn Cuba into a communist country. | Fidel Castro |
| The USA formed the National Aeronautics and ____ Administration. | Space |
| Who organized the Mouvement National Congolais in the Congo (Africa)? | Patrice Lumumba |
| The Chinese Communist Party’s soldiers were known as the ____. | Red Army |
| When the communist army forced the Kuomintang out of Nanjing, they fled south to what island? | Taiwan |
| Who was the secretary of state under Dwight Eisenhower, who came up with the plan to give twenty billion dollars to the countries of Europe so they could rebuild after World War II? | George Marshall |
| Who was president of the United States when an invasion of Cuba was planned? | Kennedy |
| Who hoped to unite all of the Arabs in the world into a powerful country known as the United Arab Republic? | Nasser |
| After Rosa Parks was arrested, civil rights movement leaders organized a boycott of the buses in which Alabama city? | Montgomery |
| What was the U.S. government policy called that allowed our country to help a Middle Eastern country under attack? | Eisenhower Doctrine |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. was an American civil rights leader who admired whose nonviolent resistance ideas? | Gandhi |
| What was the policy called when the National Party passed laws that separated whites from the rest of South Africa? | Apartheid |
| Who was the first man to set foot on the moon’s surface? | Neil Armstrong |
| What was the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam? | Hanoi |
| Juan Perón was elected president of ____. | Argentina |
| George _______ was Secretary of State, an advisor to the president whose job is to help America keep its friendship with other countries. | Marshall |
| The poor people of Argentina called Juan Perón’s wife ____, a nickname showing their love for her. | Evita |
| In ____ v. The Board of Education, the Supreme Court decided that racially segregated schools violated the Constitution. | Brown |
| Who started to sell weapons to the communists to buy food? | Kuomintang |
| In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first satellite to be launched into space. What was the satellite called? | Sputnik |
| What were the segregation laws of the American South nicknamed? | Jim Crow Laws |
| Today, the Congo is known by what name? | Zaire |
| Who do most believe assassinated John F. Kennedy? | Lee Harvey Oswald |
| Who killed Lee Harvey Oswald? | Jack Ruby |
| Who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr.? | James Earl Ray |