History Final Exam Ch.32-35
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- Babrak Kamal
- who the Soviets installed as the President of Afghanistan after they killed President Amin in 1979.
- "Police Action"
- what the United Nations termed the combat in Korea.
- Jacques Chirac
- succeeded Francois Mitterrand as President of France in 1996.
- Lyndon Johnson
- became the president after John F. Kennedy's assasination.
- Jean-Claude Duvalier
- was the Haitian President for life that was forced out of office and fled the country in 1986.
- Vyacheslav Molotov
- was the Soviet foreign minister when Stalin died in 1953.
- Helmut Kohl
- was the chancellor during Germany's reunification in 1990.
- South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
- are Asia's "Four Tigers."
- Lyndon Johnson
- was president when the Paris Accord was signed.
- Indira Gandhi
- was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
- Premier Zhou Enlai
- was Mao's long-time associate who restored China's industrial productivity after the Cultural Revolution.
- Babrak Kamal
- who the Soviets installed as president when they invaded Afghanistan in 1979.
- Pentagon
- name of the building attacked in Washington D.C. by terrorists on 9/11.
- Lech Walesa
- was the leader of the Polish labor union called Solidarity.
- Pol Pot
- was the leader of the Khmer Rouge.
- Slobodan Milosevic
- was the Yugoslavian leader that began to use ethnic cleansing tactics in Kosovo in 1998.
- George H. W. Bush
- whose major success in foreign policy was leading the coalition in the Persian Gulf War.
- Manuel Noriega
- was the President of Panama that was removed from power in 1989.
- John F. Kennedy
- was the U.S. president that promised a "New Frontier" spirit for America in 1961.
- Al-Qaeda
- name of the organization the terrorists belonged to that crashed commerical aircraft into the World Trade Towers.
- Aldo Moro
- was assassinated in 1978 and his body was found in a car in Rome.
- Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
- was the Shah of Iran who attempted a rapid modernization of his country which he called the White Revolution.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- gave a speech entitled the "Crimes of the Stalin Era" in 1956.
- Canada, U.S., and Mexico
- name of the three countries that signed NAFTA.
- Winston Chuchill
- dubbed the term "Iron Curtain."
- Gerald Ford
- who Richard Nixon appointed as his new vice president under the 25th Amendment.
- Nicaragua
- the country that Ronald Reagan sent money and advisers to support the Contra rebels.
- Nelson Mandela
- was the founder of the African National Congress (ANC).
- Vladimir Putin
- who Boris Yeltsin named to be the acting President of Russia when he resigned.
- Konrad Adenauer
- was the German chancellor that led his country from the status of despised outcast to that of a valued Western ally.
- Saddam Hussein
- attacked Iranian airfields and oil refineries beginning the Iraq-Iran war in 1980.
- Mikhail Gorbachev
- the Soviet leader that had a attempted coup made against him in 1991.
- Prince Juan Carlos
- succeeded Franco in Spain in 1975.
- Sputnik
- name of the first artificial satellite put in orbit by the Soviets in 1957.
- Hosni Mubarak
- who became the president of Egypt after Anwar Sadat was assassinated in 1981.
- Tet
- name of the Vietnamese holiday in which the Viet Cong launched an offensive in 1968.
- Deng Xioping
- was the Chinese premier during the Tiananmen Square demonstration in 1987.
- Yassir Arafat
- who was the leader of the PLO.
- Nikita Khrushchev
- name of the Soviet leader during the Cuban missile crisis.
- General Auguste Pinochet
- became the leader of Chile after the coup in 1973.
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- name of the organization that the United States and its allies established in 1949.
- Tony Blair
- replaced John Major as the British Prime Minister in 1997.
- Richard Nixon
- whose administration was brought down by the Watergate scandal.
- General Mohammad Zia ul-Haq
- overthrew Ali Bhutto in 1977.
- Lavrenti Beria
- was the head of the Soviet secret police (KGB) when Stalin died in 1953.
- Jimmy Carter
- who was the U.S. president when Iranian militants took 53 hostages in 1979.
- Salvador Allende
- was the President of Chile who was overthrown in a bloody coup in 1973.
- Margaret Thatcher
- name of the British Prime Minister who held the post the longest in British history (11 years).
- Colonel Muammar al-Qadhafi
- who took power from the Libyan monarchy in 1969.
- Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
- was the Shi'ite holy man who viewed the U.S. as the great Satan.