Abeka World History and Cultures Test 11 with complete
solution
The Shah of ______________________ was ousted by rebels in 1979
Iran
______________________ was the leader of Ethiopia overthrown by Communists
Haile Selassie I
______________________ was the dictator of Communist North Vietnam after
Vietnam was divided
Ho Chi Minh
In April 1986, a nuclear reactor accident at ______________________ killed 23
people
CHERNOBYL
President Reagan and ______________________ signed the Intermediate Nuclear
Forces Treaty in 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev
East and West Germany were officially reunited on ______________________
October 3, 1990
In 1991, most of the former Soviet republics banded together to form the
____________________________________________
COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
General ______________________ said "There is no substitute for victory"
MacArthur
The Ho Chi Minh Trial was a North Vietnamese supply trail that ran through
______________________
CAMBODIA
The African National Congress was influential in ______________________
SOUTH AFRICA
what is MOST true about the Tet Offensive?
the Tet Offensive was a victory for the Americans, but the US media portrayed it as a
loss
what BEST explains why the nations of Eastern Europe were freed?
the Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from the West
what country brutally crushed a demonstration for freedom at Tiananmen
Square?
China
what was the MAJOR cause of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War?
policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their resources to win
what statement BEST describes the Reagan Doctrine?
it was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a country
a passenger airliner from ____, KAL 007, was shot down in Soviet airspace in
1983
South Korea
what island did Fidel Castro attempt to use as a military base to invade the South
American mainland?
solution
The Shah of ______________________ was ousted by rebels in 1979
Iran
______________________ was the leader of Ethiopia overthrown by Communists
Haile Selassie I
______________________ was the dictator of Communist North Vietnam after
Vietnam was divided
Ho Chi Minh
In April 1986, a nuclear reactor accident at ______________________ killed 23
people
CHERNOBYL
President Reagan and ______________________ signed the Intermediate Nuclear
Forces Treaty in 1987
Mikhail Gorbachev
East and West Germany were officially reunited on ______________________
October 3, 1990
In 1991, most of the former Soviet republics banded together to form the
____________________________________________
COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES
General ______________________ said "There is no substitute for victory"
MacArthur
The Ho Chi Minh Trial was a North Vietnamese supply trail that ran through
______________________
CAMBODIA
The African National Congress was influential in ______________________
SOUTH AFRICA
what is MOST true about the Tet Offensive?
the Tet Offensive was a victory for the Americans, but the US media portrayed it as a
loss
what BEST explains why the nations of Eastern Europe were freed?
the Soviet Union saw the freeing of these nations as the means to get aid from the West
what country brutally crushed a demonstration for freedom at Tiananmen
Square?
China
what was the MAJOR cause of the Communist victory in the Vietnam War?
policy of limited warfare prevented the Americans from using all of their resources to win
what statement BEST describes the Reagan Doctrine?
it was a policy of attacking Communism before it could attack and enslave a country
a passenger airliner from ____, KAL 007, was shot down in Soviet airspace in
1983
South Korea
what island did Fidel Castro attempt to use as a military base to invade the South
American mainland?
