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Study Helps for Test over Chapters 37-42
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| President of Egypt who was assassinated for working toward peace with Israel. | Sadat |
| Name the country where Indira Gandhi was prime minister. | India |
| This allowed ordinary people to have more control of Russian businesses, and even their own businesses, instead of the government owning everything. | Perestroika |
| In which country were the Camp David Accords conducted by President Jimmy Carter between Sadat and Begin? | USA |
| The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in this West German city. | Munich |
| Ruhollah ___________________ was an ayatollah, an Islamic religious leader. | Khomeni |
| East Pakistan changed its name to this. | Bangladesh |
| In which country was a 164-foot tunnel dug from a bakery to an outhouse? | Germany |
| In 1955, _____________________, Idaho became the first town to be powered entirely by nuclear power. | Arco |
| The Six-Day War began when __________________, Egypt and Jordan attacked Israel. | Syria |
| Where did the Yom Kippur War take place? | Israel |
| The Black September terrorists were a group that had broken off from this larger terrorist group. | PLO |
| This country invaded both Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan. | USSR |
| After the gates were finally opened, this was destroyed by people with shovels, tools and iron bars. | Berlin Wall |
| Three Mile Island was a nuclear power plant in this US state: | Pennsylvania |
| Desmond __________________ was an Anglican priest from South Africa who told the rest of the world about the evils of apartheid. | Tutu |
| Name the capital city of the southern part of Vietnam, which was renamed Ho Chi Minh City in 1975. | Hanoi |
| Saddam ___________________ was the leader of Iraq. | Hussein |
| In April 1989, thousands of students gathered here to demand a change of leadership in China. | Tiananmen Square |
| The Sikhs decided to use what location in Amritsar as their headquarters? | The Golden Temple |
| Scientists and government leaders were very excited about this because it could be an inexpensive source of electricity, and we wouldn't have to rely so much on gasoline and oil. | nuclear power |
| The war to free Kuwait from Iraqi control was known as the First _______________________ War. | Persian Gulf |
| Deng _________________________ became the leader of China several years after Mao died. | Xiaoping |
| This country started the Yom Kippur War when it joined Syria in attacking Israel. | Egypt |
| This man thought Gorbachev’s reforms were happening too slowly and wanted to move toward democracy much more quickly. | Yeltsin |
| After America left this country, communist forces from the north took over the south. | Vietnam |
| Where was the First Persian Gulf War fought? | Kuwait |
| Name the terrorist organization that was formed from the Irish Republican Army. | PIRA |
| With this policy, people in the Soviet Union were given greater freedom of speech, and it was no longer a crime for newspapers to publish criticism of the Soviet government. | Glasnost |
| The Sikhs wanted to control their own part of India, an area called the: | Punjab |
| In this Russian city, a nuclear reactor exploded. | Chernobyl |
| Who became the leader of Russia after the breakup of the USSR? | Yeltsin |
| Who was the guerilla group that fought against the rebel government in Afghanistan? | Mujaheddin |
| Sadat and Begin were awarded the ____________ Peace Prize for their work at the Camp David Peace Talks. | Nobel |
| As they retreated, whose soldiers set the oil wells of Kuwait on fire? | Iraq |
| Which Indian religious group is neither Muslim nor Hindu? | Sikhs |
| Which U.S. President led the Camp David Accords to broker peace in the Middle East? | Jimmy Carter |
| Nelson ___________ became the first black president of South Africa. | Mandela |
| The _____________ invaded Rwanda and began to drive the Hutus out. | Tutsis |
| President ________________ began to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam in 1969. | Nixon |
| Chairman _____________________ thought that the best way for China to become the largest, most powerful, and wealthiest nation in the world was to copy the Soviet Union. | Mao |
| The time between 1966-1976 when every part of Chinese culture had to praise Mao and his policies was called the __________ Revolution. | Cultural |
| It was the job of the ____________, the Russian Secret Police, to stamp out any opposition to the Soviet government. | KGB |
| Mikhail __________________, the leader of the Soviet Union, worked with Reagan to end the Cold War. | Gorbachev |
| When Khomeni became leader of _____________, he turned it into a theocracy, a state ruled according to strict religious law. | Iran |
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