NEO-Colonialism | Set 1
1. After the Second World War, the USA and ................became two Super Powers.
2. The competition between the Super Powers led to the.......................
3. .........................took the leadership of all the Capitalist Countries.
4. ..........................took the leadership of all the Communist Countries.
5. The .................... was a period of economic, political and military tension between the United States and Soviet Union from 1945 to 1991.
6. The ....................was a long period of tension between the democracies of the Western World and the communist countries of Eastern Europe.
7. ....................is a kind of verbal war which is fought through newspapers, magazines,
radio and other propaganda methods.
8. The Cold War came to an end with the collapse of the Soviet Union in.................
9. ...................., the Prime Minister of England in his ‘Fulton Speech’ on 5 March 1945
said that Soviet Russia was covered by an Iron Curtain.
10. United States of America formed SEATO in ................ in order to reduce Soviet Russia’s influence.
11. In 1955 America formed ..................................in Middle East.
12. To reduce the American Power, Russia signed WARSAW PACT in................
13. In 1953 Stalin died and Khrushchev became the President of................
14. In 1959 the Russian President ...................went on a historical tour to America.
15. In 13 August..................., Soviet Russia made a Berlin Wall of 25 Kilometres in
order to check the immigration from eastern Berlin to Western Berlin.
16. The SALT of 1972, the summit Conference on Security’ of 1975 in Helsinki and
Belgrade Conference of 1978 brought ...................and Russia closer.
17. In 1979, the American President Carter and Russian President
...............................signed SALT II.
18. Containment was originally devised by US diplomat and historian.....................,
best known as “the father of containment”.
19. The ......................Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program implemented following the
Second World War to aid European countries that had been destroyed as a result of the war.
20. The Truman Doctrine was an ....................foreign policy to stop Soviet imperialism
during the Cold War.
21. The Truman Doctrine was announced to Congress by President Harry S.
Truman on March 12, ......................when he pledged to contain Soviet threats to Greece and Turkey.
22. The Warsaw Pact was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the ........................and several Eastern European countries.
23. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in Washington on April 4,
24. The formal institution of ....................was established on 19 February 1955 at a
meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok, Thailand
25. SEATO was dissolved on 30 June ................... after many members lost interest and withdrew.
26. ........................ originally known as the Baghdad Pact or the Middle East Treaty
Organization(METO) was formed in 1955 by Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey, and the United Kingdom.
27. The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO)was dissolved in 1979.
28. .......................was the leader of the Soviet Union from 1929 to 1953.
28. ..................... founded Cominform in the year 1947 with the purpose of bringing
together the European communist parties
29. The Berlin Wall, built in August of 1961, was s physical symbol of the political and
emotional divisions of.......................
30. General ...................led the UN forces on an attack at the Battle of Inchon.
31. On 14 May 1948 the Israeli Prime Minister, ...................., announced the creation
of the state of Israel.
32. The Suez Canal was built by ...................developer Ferdinand de Lesseps.
33. In 1954 .............................took control of Egypt.
34. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)was formed in......................
35. In 1969 ......................... took control of the PLO.
36. Fatah had been closely identified with the leadership of its founder ..................,
until his death in 2004.
37. .......................... is an organization of Palestinian Arabs which name means
“Islamic Resistance Movement.”
38. To get control of Kuwait's oil, President .................... of Iraq sent in troops on
August 2, 1990. Kuwait fell quickly to the Iraqis.
39. On September 11, ............................, terrorists attacked World Trade Centre in the
Unites States.
40. On May 1, 2011, U.S. troops killed Bin Laden where he was hiding
in..............................
41. The United States invaded ........................after the September 11 attacks.
42. On 2 May 2011, United States Navy SEALs killed ........................ in Abbot bad,
Pakistan.
43. On 28 December 2014, NATO formally ended combat operations
in .............................................
44. Following the Chinese Civil War and the victory of Mao Zedong's Communist
forces over the Kuomintang forces of Chiang Kai-shek, who fled to......................
45. ............................. declared the founding of the People’s Republic of China on
October 1, 1949.
46. On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader ....................declared the creation
of the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
47. The creation of the PRC completed the long process of governmental upheaval in
China begun by the Chinese Revolution of .............................
48. The “fall” of mainland China to communism in .........................led the United
States to suspend diplomatic ties with the PRC for decades.
49. The Chinese Communist Party, founded in ................. in Shanghai,
50. In October of 1949, after a string of military victories, ......................proclaimed
the establishment of the PRC;
51. .................... founded the People's Republic of China and was the primary leader of
the country from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.
52. .................. led the communist revolution in China and fought against the
Nationalist Party in the Chinese Civil War.
53. .................. was born the son of a peasant farmer on December 26, 1893 in
Shaoshan, Hunan Province, China.
54. After President Sun Yat-sen died in 1925, ...................took over the government
and the Kuomintang.
55. The retreat of the ..................from the Kuomintang army is called the Long March
today.
56. ........................ fled to the island of Taiwan.
57. In 1958 ...................announced his plan to industrialize China. He called it the
Great Leap Forward.
58. In 1966 .......................made his comeback in the Cultural Revolution.
59. .................ruled China until he died on September 9, 1976 from Parkinson's
disease.
60. Egypt became a British protectorate on 14th December.......................
61. .........................., a former education minister, founded the Wafd Party, or the
Egyptian Delegation Party, during First World War.
62. .......................... led Egypt to secular independence in the 1950s and held the office
of president from 1956 until his death in 1970.
63. ................... was an army officer who led the military Junta that deposed Egypt's
King Farouk in 1952.
64. By the end of 1954 ....................had replaced titular leader General Mohammed
Neguib as president.
65. ..................... is remembered for his ambitious attempt to modernize Egypt and
create a secular Arab empire in northern Africa and the Middle East.
66. ....................promoted the construction of the Aswan High Dam (completed the
year he died) and challenged British, French and Israeli forces for control of the Suez Canal, nationalizing the canal in 1956.
67. African National Congress founded in..........................
68. In 1964 its leader, ....................., was sentenced to life in prison, and the leadership
was forced into exile.
69. Thabo Mbeki succeeded .................as head of the ANC in 1997 and as president of
South Africa in 1999.
70. ..................... succeeded Motlanthe as South Africa's president in 2009.
71. ........................ was a civil rights leader in South Africa.
72. ................................ was born on July 18, 1918 in Mvezo, South Africa.