Chinese Communism, Iranian Revolution & Apartheid

The leader of China's communist party, this man ruled China from 1949 until his death in 1976.

• Chiang Kai-shek

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xiaoping

• Obi-wan Kenobi

True or False: The Great Leap Forward eliminated hunger and resulted in widespread prosperity in communist China. 

• True

• False

The ____________________________________, a collection of Mao's thoughts, became a sort of bible for the Chinese communists. It was hailed as the most important source of knowledge in all areas.

• Green Book

• Little Red Book

• Communist Manifesto

• Psalms of Mao

In 1989, Deng Xiaoping ordered Chinese tanks and troops into _____________________________ to crush massive demonstrations by student protestors who were demanding the resignation of China's aging party leaders.  

• The Forbidden City

• The Summer Palace

• Tiananmen Square

• The Great Wall of China

In 1951, Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh announced a plan to nationalize Iran's ____________ industry, which posed a threat to British companies that were operating in the country.

• Oil

• Steel

• Textile

• Lumber

The CIA and Britain's foreign intelligence service, MI-6, staged a ___________, removing Mohammad Mossadegh as Prime Minister and restoring power to the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in 1953.

• Sit-in

• Election

• Coup

• Revolution

As a result of the Iranian Revolution of 1979, Iran became a ___________________, a type of government that is based on religion.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Plutocracy

• Bureaucracy

On November 4, 1979, a group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, resulting in this event that gripped the United States for the next 444 days.

• Iran-Contra Affair

• Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Suez Crisis

• Iran Hostage Crisis

Afrikaners were __________ settlers who came to South Africa from _______________________.

• British; England

• Dutch; the Netherlands

• American; the United States

• Portugese; Brazil

______________, or "apartness," was the system of racial segregation that existed in South Africa from the 1950s until 1991.

• Jim Crow Laws

• Apartheid

• Afrikaans

• Perestroika