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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.

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