Book 4, Modern, Test 23

Book 4, Modern, Story of the World

Test 23

Write one word from this word bank after each definition or description:

Word Bank

Gamal Abdel Nasser
Eisenhower Doctrine
war cake
George Marshall
Berlin Wall
African National Congress (ANC)
CCP or Red Army
Little Red Book
French Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Viet Minh
Years of the French Indochina War
Years of World War I
Years of World War II
Years of Korean War
38th parallel
General Douglas MacArthur
Juan Peron
King Leopold
The Congo
Sputnik
NASA
Yuri Gagarin
Apollo 11
Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
Bay of Pigs
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Date John F. Kennedy assasinated
Lyndon Johnson
Lee Harvey Oswald
segregation laws
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Rosa Parks
Martin Luther King, Jr.


  1. Black woman who was a hero of the Civil Rights Movement after she refused to give up her seat for a white man on a segregated bus.

  1. Dessert made during World War II without butter, eggs, or sugar; those items were rationed.

  1. The Vietnamese communist army.

  1. Egyptian officer who deposed King Faruk. He wanted to unite all Arabs and started the Suez Crisis by banning Israeli use of the canal. The United States and the Soviet Union were asked to lend him money to build a dam across the Nile River.

  1. World War II general who led the U.S. to victory over Japan; he commanded American forces fighting to defend South Korea from the invasion by communist North Korea.

  1. Book of sayins of Mao.

  1. National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

  1. Court ruling that said segregation was illegal under the United States Constitution, denying blacks equal protection under the law.

  1. Policy created by the United States that declared U.S. soldiers could legally fight in the Middle East if asked to.
  1. 1946 to 1954

  1. 1950 to 1953

  1. 1914 to 1918

  1. 1939 to 1945

  1. November 22, 1963

  1. Argentine general who took over the government using a junta and ruled as a dictator with the help of his popular wife, Eva.

  1. The area controlled by Franch during the period of colonialism, including modern Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. Occupied by Japan during World War II.

  1. First satellite to reach orbit around the Earth; launched by the Soviet Union.

  1. President Kennedy's vice president; he became president after JFK was assasinated.

  1. First man to orbit the Earth; from the Soviet Union.

  1. Ship that brought Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin's “Eagle” vehicle to the moon; they were the first men to walk on the moon; from the United States of America.

  1. Most famous leader of the Civil Rights Movement; Christian minister who advocated peaceful demonstrations; assassinated.

  1. United States Secretary of State that created a plan to give Europe, particularly Germany, money to recover from World War II.

  1. Latitude line that divides Korea into North and South; North Korea became communist under the influence of the USSR; South Korea became democratic under the influence of the U.S. North invading South started the Korean War.

  1. Belgian king during colonial occupation of Africa. Treated native Africans poorly.

  1. Nguyen Ai Quoc, rebel communist leader who fought the French in Vietnam. Later fought Americans trying to keep the government in Vietnam from turning communist.

  1. Man killed by Jack Ruby after being arrested on suspicion of killing John F. Kennedy.

  1. Laws requiring black and white Americans to use separate schools, buses, etc. Related to Jim Crow laws.

  1. Wall that isolated the eastern (communist) half from the western (free) half of Germany's capital so Germans couldn't escape from the east.

  1. Old name of Zaire, changed under General Mobutu.

  1. Area where Cubans landed, with the help of United States' president John F. Kennedy, to try to take Cuba back from the communists. It failed.

  1. Frightening time when President Kennedy told the USSR that the US would launch a nuclear war against it if it put nuclear weapons in Cuba, close enough to destroy American cities.

  1. Communist rebels who fought a guerilla war to take over Cuba.

  1. The communist party of China, let by Mao. It fought with the Nationalist part of Chiang Kai-shek, and the Kuomingtang army. It drove Chiang to Taiwan, where Chinese today still hope to return to mainland China and end communism there.

  1. Organization in South Africa founded to try to gain rights for black South Africans; it fought the apartheid laws.


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