Contemporary World Fill in the blanks questions

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Mizoram University

History

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Vijayent Chanda

UG/HIST/VI/EC/10
CONTEMPORARY WORLD

UNIT 1: The Cold War World: Global Politics and Economic Recovery

Fill in the blanks:
1. The communist system of organizing the state and society was based on the ideas of
__________________
2. The Marshall Plan is also known as ______________
3. The Council of Mutual Economic Assistance(COMECON) was set up in
__________________
4. The COMECON was established to coordinate economic strategy and trade within
_________________
5. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was established on _______________
6. The existence of Cold War compelled the United States to lead a peacetime alliance
with West under ____________
7. The term ’containment’ was coined by ___________
8. The Mutually Assured Destruction(MAD) is an American doctrine of reciprocal
prevention resisting on the US and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable
damage on the other in retaliation for _________
9. The European Economic Community (EEC) was changed in to _______________ in
1992
10. The European Economic Community (EEC) was established by the
________________
11. The pact formed by the Soviet Union to counter NATO was known as ______________
12. South East Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was created in ____________
13. The failure of Britain and France in 1956 to take control of Suez Canal and bringing
down the Government of __________________ is known as Suez Crisis
14. Suez Crisis is often taken as symbol of the collapse of European imperialism and the
rise of the _____________
15. Inter-Allied Conference held in 1944 to discuss the post-war international economic
order is known as _____________
16. Bretton Wood Conference led to the establishment of International Monetary
Fund(IMF) and _____________
17. The Bay of Pigs invasion had taken place on ____________
18. The Bay of Pig invasion was an invasion of Cuba by ______________ sponsored by
the United States
19. The first Strategic Arma Limitation Treaties (SALT) was concluded in _____________
20. The name used for Cuban Revolutionaries under Fidel Castro was known as
_____________
21. The Fidelist toppled the Batista regime on ________________
22. American U-2 was shot down over Cuba on ______________
23. Limited Test Ban Treaty (Nuclear Weapon) was signed in 1963 by __________ nations
24. ________________ doctrine is the doctrine expounded in 1968 affirming the right of
Soviet Union to interfere in the affairs of Communist countries to prevent Communism
25. Scholars believed the first signal for the development of Cold War was given by
W.Churchill in his _____________ of March,1946
26. The Berlin Blockade was an exempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of
___________________
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27. The term ______________ is often used to refer the super power diplomacy that took
place in the inauguration of Richard Nixon as The President of United States of
America in 1969.

Unit – II: Decolonization, Revolutions, and the Transformation of Asia and Africa

Fill in the blanks:
1. The capitulation of Japan on ___________ led to chaos and revolution in Asia.
2. ____________ was the phrase usually used to refer to the Allied war against Japan from
1941-1945.
3. If India would accept __________ status they would become an active member of the
Commonwealth.
4. Viet Minh, a communist-led resistance movement against Japanese and French was
headed by ____________
5. Mao's ‘signified' reformulation of Marxism-Leninism was called the _____________
movement.
6. In 1946 the fight between the GMD and CCP in China over____________ quickly
descended into civil war.
7. In 1949 after a series of defeats the GMD regime was forced to flee to ____________
8. Dean Acheson, the US under-secretary of state had referred Germany and ___________
as the ‘two great workshops of the world’.
9. The Guomindang (GMD) or The Chinese Nationalist party was founded in 1913 by
____________
10. The line which demarcated South & North Korea is ____________
11. The first President of the Republic of Korea was _____________
12. The Korean War was finally came to an end in July ____________
13. The US agreed to end the occupation of Japan in September ___________
14. ______________basically refers to those states that are part of neither the capitalist
world nor the communist block.
15. The political leader famous for advocating Neutralism was ______________
16. The Bretton Woods Conference which led to the birth of IMF and World Bank was
held in _____________
17. The term ‘Containment' was coined by ______________
18. The first Zionist congress in Switzerland was convened by_____________
19. The Arab Revolt or Peasant uprising in Palestine took place between 1936 and
___________
20. Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation is named ____________

UNIT III: Neutralism, Development and the Rise of the Third World
Fill in the blanks:
1. __________________________________ was a collective security alliance concluded
between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949.
2. The ___________ was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 by
the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe
3. The __________________________ is an organization of developing countries that are
not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc.
4. The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) was founded in _____________ in 1961.
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5. The first state that clearly set out the tenets of non-alignment was India under the
leadership of _______________
6. The term ______________ is a collective term for those states that are part of neither
the developed capitalist world nor the communist bloc.
7. The _____________ Conference formally known as the United Nations Monetary and
Financial Conference in 1944 led to the establishment of the International Monetary
Fund (IMF) and the World Bank.
8. Japan regained its sovereignty from the United States in _____________ when the
terms of the Treaty of San Francisco went into effect.
9. The rise of South Korea and _____________ as economic powers began in the 1960s,
when these countries shifted from a concentration on import substitution to a focus on
the production of manufactured goods for export.
10. Guomindang (GMD) was the Chinese nationalist party founded in 1913 by
______________
11. The official name of communist or mainland China is
______________________________
12. The People’s Republic of China (PRC) came into existence in 1949 under the leadership
of ________________
13. The _______________ was a movement initiated by the Chinese Communist Party in
1958 to achieve rapid modernization in China.
14. The _________________ was a socio-political movement in China from 1966 until
1976 initiated by Mao Zedong.
15. The _____________ were the students and workers who acted as the foot soldiers of
the Chinese Cultural Revolution.
16. _____________ protest was the protest of the students against the communist rule in
China in 1989.
17. ____________ was a foreign policy strategy devised by George Kennan to prevent the
spread of communism during the Cold War.
18. __________ was the name used for the Cuban revolutioneries under Fidel Castro’s
leadership.
19. In April 1961, the growing Cuban-American antipathy climaxed in the _____________
invasion.
20. The leader of the Unidad Popular movement in Chile was ________________
21. _____________ was the western name for the communist movement let by Pol Pot,
which came to power in Cambodia in 1975.
22. The last surviving Stalinist state was ____________
23. The official name of North Korea is the
__________________________________________
24. ____________ is commonly associated with the economic self-sufficiency
programmes espoused by Germany, Italy and Japan in the 1930s and 1940s.
25. The ___________ was proclaimed by the United States in 1823 during the presidency
of President James Monroe, which declared that any intervention by external powers in
the politics of the Americas is a potentially hostile act against the US.
26. An association for regional cooperation among the countries of Southeast Asia which
came to be known as the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was formed
in ____________

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UNIT IV: The End of the Cold War (1960-1990): Politics, Society and Culture

Fill in the blanks:
1. Solidarity Movement was launched in __________in 1988.
2. The Irish Republican Army’s (IRA)original aim was to establish an __________
3. An Irish militant nationalist organization formed in 1919 was called __________
4. The first President of Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union was __________
5. The reforms introduced by ___________, the Russian President was responsible for
the breakup of the Soviet Union.
6. The word ___________ means restructuring.
7. Glasnost literally means __________
8. The __________ are the main body of Muslim who follow the path of Prophet
Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali’s accession to the Caliphate.
9. __________ moment was the moment of USA.
10. Martin Luther King Jr. was a famous leader of the ________________
11. At the breakup of the Soviet Union, _____________ emerged in 1991.
12. Germany became a unified country again in 3 October, _________
13. The movement led by Alexander Dubcek in 1968 was called ___________
14. The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia was led by____________
15. ‘Death of the peasantry’ was the phrase used by _____________
16. _____________ was launched in Poland in 1988.
17. The Muslims who follow path of Prophet Muhammed and the Quran are known as the
______________
18. The US Civil Rights Acts of 1964was passed under President ____________
19. The Soviet Union disintegrated in ________
20. The ___________Wave of Feminist Movement address discrimination and gender
inequality that women faced in their workplace.

UNIT V: Globalization and the West

Fill in the blanks:
1. _______________ a former professor at the Harvard Business School is usually
credited with coining the term globalization.
2. __________________ refers to the cultural, social and economic changes caused by
the growth of international trade, the rapid transfer of investment and capital and the
development of high-speed global communications.
3. The term ‘network society’ is coined by Jan van Dijk and ___________________
4. Israel became an independent state in ________________________
5. During the Arab League Summit in 1964, Palestinians came together to create
one central organization called the
___________________________________________
6. The Six Day War also known as the Third Arab–Israeli War was fought on
______________
7. __________________________________ is a militant Islamic Palestinian nationalist
movement dedicated to the establishment of an independent Islamic state in historical
Palestine, which emerged during the first intifada in 1987.
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8. The term _____________ is a collective term for those states that are part of neither the
developed capitalist world nor the communist bloc.
9. The organization founded in 1960 to represent the interests of the leading oil-producing
states in the Third World is called
____________________________________________________
10. The founder of Pan-Islamic militant organization called Al-Qaeda was
_________________
11. The al-Qaeda hijacked planes and struck the Pentagon in Washington and the World
Trade Center in New York City on _________________
12. On _____________ Osama bin Laden was killed when a small U.S. force transported
by helicopters raided the compound.
13. The term ___________ refer to the fundamentalist Muslim militia of Pashtun Afghans
and Pakistanis that overthrew Ahmad Shah Masood in 1998.
14. At present, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) consist of ___________
North American and European countries
15. The United Nations Organization (UNO) is an international organization established
after the Second World War to replace the ____________________.
16. The term ___________________________ denote the stigma associated with the
development and use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
17. The American-led attack on Iraq on 20 March 2003 was known as
_____________________
18. Former Iraqi dictator __________________ was executed by hanging at an Iraqi
military base called Camp Justice on December 30, 2006.
19. ___________________________ was the official name used by the United States for
the Global War on Terrorism.
20. The _________________ is a political and economic community of nations formed in
1992 in Maastricht.
21. The term ________________ is synonymous with stateless, poor, and marginal nations.
22. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) is
adopted by the United Nations on ____________________________
23. ________________________________establishes a universal framework of minimum
standards for the survival, dignity and well-being of the indigenous peoples of the
world.

ANSWERS TO FILL IN THE BLANKS:

UNIT 1: ANSWER
1. Joseph Stalin
2. Eurpean Recovery Programme/Plan(ERP)
3. 1949
4. Communist World (Soviet Bloc)
5. 4
th
April 1949
6. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
7. George Kennan
8. Nuclear attack
9. 1992
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10. Treaty of Rome
11. The Warsaw Pact
12. 1954
13. Gamal Abdul Nasser
14. Third world
15. Bretton Woods Conference
16. World Blank
17. 17
th
April,1961
18. Anti-Castro Cuban exiles
19. 1972
20. Fidelistas
21. 1
st
January,1959
22. 27
th
October,1962
23. 96
24. Brezhnev
25. Fulton Speech
26. France,Great Britain and United States
27. Detente

UNIT II: ANSWER
1. 15
th
August 1945
2. Pacific War
3. Dominion
4. Ho Chi Minh
5. New Democracy
6. Manchuria
7. Taiwan
8. Japan
9. Sun Yatsen
10. 38
th
Parallel
11. Syngman Ree
12. 1953
13. 1951
14. Third World
15. Nehru
16. 1944
17. George Kennan
18. Theodor Herzl
19. 1939
20. Intifada

UNIT III: ANSWER
1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
2. Warsaw Pact
3. Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)
4. Belgrade
5. Jawaharlal Nehru.
6. Third World
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7. Bretton Woods
8. April 1952
9. Taiwan
10. Sun Yatsen.
11. People’s Republic of China (PRC).
12. Mao Zedong
13. Great Leap Forward
14. Cultural Revolution
15. Red Guards
16. Tiananmen Square
17. Containment
18. Fidelistas
19. Bay of Pigs
20. Salvadore Allende
21. Khmer Rougue
22. North Korea.
23. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)
24. Auturky
25. Monroe Doctrine
26. August 1967

UNIT IV: ANSWER
1. Poland
2. Irish Socialist Republic
3. Irish Republican Army
4. Boris Yeltsin
5. Mikhail Gorbachev
6. perestroika
7. Intellectual openness.
8. Shia Muslims
9. Unipolar
10. Civil Rights Movement
11. 15 independent states
12. 1990
13. Prague Spring
14. Alexander Dubcek
15. Eric Hobsbawm
16. Solidarity Movement
17. Sunni Muslims
18. Lyndon B. Johnson
19. 1991
20. Second

UNIT V: ANSWER
1. Theodore Levitt
2. Globalization
3. Manuel Castells
4. 1948
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5. Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).
6. June 1967.
7. Hamas (Islamic Resistance Movement)
8. Third World
9. Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC)
10. Osama bin Laden.
11. September 11, 2001
12. May 2, 2011
13. Taliban
14. 30
15. League of Nations.
16. weapons of mass destruction (WDM)
17. ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’.
18. Saddam Hussein
19. Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)
20. European Union (EU)
21. ‘Fourth World’
22. September 13, 2007
23. The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

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