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Iran
the Shah of__________ was ousted by rebels in 1979
Haile Selassie I
______________ was the leader of Ethiopia overthrown by Communists
Ho Chi Minh
____________ was the dictator of Communist North Vietnam after Vietnam was divided
Chernobyl
in April 1986, a nuclear reactor accident at _______________ killed 23 people
Mikhail Gorbachev
president Reagan and ___________signed the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty in
1987
1990
East and West Germany were officially reunited on October 3,_________
Commonwealth of Independent States
in 1991, most of the former Soviet republics banded together to form the __________
MacArthur
General _______________ said "There is no substitute for victory"
cambodia
the Ho Chi Minh Trial was a North Vietnamese supply trail that ran through
South Africa
the African National Congress was influential in ______________
the Tet Offensive was a victory for the Americans, but the US media portrayed it
as a loss
what is MOST true about the Tet Offensive?
the Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from
the West
, what BEST explains why the nations of Eastern Europe were freed?
China
what country brutally crushed a demonstration for freedom at Tiananmen Square?
policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their
resources to win
what was the MAJOR cause of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War?
it was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a
country
what statement BEST describes the Reagan Doctrine?
South Korea
a passenger airliner from ____, KAL 007, was shot down in Soviet airspace in 1983
Grenada
what island did Fidel Castro attempt to use as a military base to invade the South
American mainland?
Argentina
what country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982?
Zaire
what was the Republic of the Congo renamed in 1971?
Chaim Weizmann
first president of Israel?
Leonid Brezhnev
succeeded Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union
Anwar el Sadat
met with Menachem Begin at Camp David
Henry Kissinger
president Nixon's assistant for national security affairs
Mikhail Gorbachev
Communist leader who loosened Soviet control of Eastern Europe
Juan Perón
president of Argentina
Konrad Adenauer