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Vocabulary List 8_6th SS

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The enslavement and forced transportation of millions of people from West Africa to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries

a)

Columbian Exchange

b)

West Indies Trade Route

c)

Northwest Passage

d)

Transatlantic Slave Trade

2.

The exchange of people, food, commodities, culture, and diseases between the Old World and the New World

a)

Transatlantic Slave Trade

b)

Columbian Exhange

c)

Great Trade Exchange

d)

The New World Trading System

3.

The name of the peninsula upon which Spain and Portugal are located

a)

Yucatan

b)

Northwest

c)

Iberian

d)

European

4.

Former communist leader of Cuba who led a rebellion against Fulgencio Batista in the 1959 Cuban Revolution

a)

Fidel Castro

b)

John F. Kennedy

c)

Ferdinand Magellan

d)

Benito Mussolini

5.

Period of time after World War II when capitalist democracies fought for power and control against the Eastern communist regimes

a)

WW III

b)

The Great War

c)

Operation Enduring Freedom

d)

The Cold War

6.

An economic and political system in which the government owns all land and industries

a)

Democracy

b)

Monarchy

c)

Communism

d)

Capitalism

7.

And event in 1962 in which the Soviet Union attempted to move nuclear missiles into the western hemisphere within 90 miles of the United States

a)

Russian Missile Campaign

b)

Cuban Missile Crisis

c)

Operation Overlord

d)

U.S.S.R.

8.

President of the United States during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

Richard Nixon

b)

Jimmy Carter

c)

John F. Kennedy

d)

Franklin Roosevelt

9.

Leader of the Soviet Union during the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis

a)

Fidel Castro

b)

Nikita Khurshchev

c)

Winston Churchill

d)

Joseph Stalin

10.

Shortened name of Russia and the Eastern European nations it controlled during the Cold War

a)

The Soviet Union

b)

The Eastern Union

c)

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

d)

The Union of Versailles