18) Under the leadership of Mao Zedong, communism flourished in what country?
A)China
B)North Korea
C)South Korea
D)Vietnam
19) Osama bin Laden was BEST known for
A)invading oil-rich Kuwait in the 1990s.
B)founding an Islamic extremist terrorist group.
C)organizing the Taliban to resist Soviet occupation.
D)running the largest dictatorship in the Middle East.
20) Which European nation was the focus of a U.S., NATO, and United Nations military mission designed to end the country's civil war and ethnic cleansing?
A)Latvia
B)Bosnia
C)Armenia
D)Lithuania
21) Mao Zedong's "Great Leap Forward" could BEST be described as a program designed to change China's
A)economy.
B)military.
C)politics.
D)religion.
22) Which of these countries would have been "behind the Iron Curtain" during the Cold War?
A)France
B)Italy
C)Poland
D)Spain
23) What is the worldwide movement toward economic, financial, trade, and communications integration?
A)Globalization
B)Protectionism
C)Absolute Advantage
D)Consumer Sovereignty
24) Which world leader saw the launch of Sputnik I, the first man-made satellite to orbit the earth for his country?
A)Mao Zedong
B)Joseph McCarthy
C)Nikita Khrushchev
D)Dwight D. Eisenhower

18. A; Mao was the Chinese Communist dictator.
19. C; Bin Laden's organization of the Taliban against the Soviets is why Reagan chose to fund him.
20. B, Bosnia
21. A, Economic. Similar to Stalin's Five Year Plans, each communist country followed a trend of attempted rapid industrialization.
22. C; Poland. If there's Soviet controversy about a country, it's probably Poland.
23. A; Globalization
24. C; Soviet Premier Nikita Khruschev. Stalin would have been dead by the launch of Sputnik.

meerkat18 meerkat18 · Answer 2 · 2016-07-24T19:21:05+02:00

Mao Zedong was a famoous leader of China that supports communism through his reign. Osama Bin Laden is a known world terrorist and the leader of Al Qaeda, an Islamic extremist terrorist group. latvia was the focus of US NATO. Great leap forward of Mao Zedong transformed china as an agricultural country to an industrialized nation. This was a change in China's economy. The Iron Curtann that blocks Russia from all other countries may have included Poland. The worldwide movement for increased communications and trade integration among countries is globalization. President Dwight D. Eisenhower was involved in a space race that led to the launching of sputnik 1.