Vijay, Belgrade & Havana Quiz
Belgrade
Match the term to the definition:
1. Baghdad Pact of 1955
2. (1945) Yalta Conference with Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill
3. (1956) Brijui Conference with Nasser, Nehru and Tito
4. Tito
5. security council of the United Nation
a. The Premier of Yugoslavia in 1945, or the Federation of the Socialist Republics of Bosnia-Herzegovina,
Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia
b. The “Big Three” who colluded in the partitioning, or division of Europe in anticipation of the end of
the Nazi war machine to consolidate their spheres of influence in the post -World War II world
c. An alliance of the bourgeoisie of Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey with UK and US that advanced the
interests of the Western and Middle Eastern elite.
d. US, UK, USSR, France, Republic of China (Taiwan)
e. The “Big Three” who met to discuss the fallout from the spheres of influence concept and their own
vision for peaceful coexistence
6. True=A False=B For NAM, Peaceful coexistence refers to the call for disarmament and demilitarism
of the world powers, for the USSR it meant that they would morally and materially support class struggle
without intervening militarily.
7. Nasser’s refusal to submit to the western powers and move the nation towards economic
independence led to a:
a. Pakistan-Iran-Iraq invasion
b. Anglo-French-Israeli invasion
c. Vietnamese-Cuba-Angola invasion
d. Africa-Latin-Asian invasion
8. NAMs political platform included the following: mark the exception
a. Nuclear disarmament
b. democratization of the UN
c. used the UN as a political platform to raise issues of colonial barbarity and economic inequity
d. to ensure world supremacy of communism
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Match the terms to the definitions
9.
10.
11.
12.
Edvard Kardelj
Amilcar Cabral of the PAIGC
Che Guevara
Fidel Castro
a. He successfully adopted armed struggle against the Portuguese Colonial regime in Africa.
b. He said that to maintain peaceful co-existence does not include coexistence between exploiters
and the exploited, between the oppressors and the oppressed and also supported armed struggle
c. He called on Cubans to revive the 1940 constitution and promoted armed struggle against the U.S.
backed dictator Fulgencia Bautista
d. He argued that the wars of the powerful should be condemned at all costs, while the wars of the
weak could be defended in context
Havana
13. American response to liberation movements in Latin America include military interventions in
the following countries: (Just take note, I will craft a question for the exam based on this
information)
1900-1933 U.S. interventions
Cuba (4x)
Dominican Republic (4X with a 8 year occupation)
Haiti 2x with a 19 year occupation
Guatamala 1x
Honduras 7x
Nicaragua 2x
Panama 6x
1950s-1960s U.S. Interventions
Guatamala
Haiti
Bolivia
Nietname
Brazil
Congo
Greece
Indonesia
14. The idea of Armed Struggle (mark all that are true)
a. Became =a strategy of anti-colonialism by the 1970s.
b. Is similar to the Cuban theory of the Foco or insurrectionary center
c. Is similar to Fanons Theory of Revolutionary Violence
d. Is similar to Lin Biao’s theory of “peoples war”
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15. The Tri-Continental Conference of 1966 in Havana, Cuba
a. Was the First Solidary Conference of the Peoples of Africa, Asia and Latin America
b. Was where leaders debated about what strategies should be used to confront the world’s
predicaments
c. Was were leaders disagreed over the strategies of Peaceful Co-existence and armed struggle
d. Where leadership questioned how to provide genuine solidarity to Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam
16. Once Nehru, Nasser, U Nu and Sukarno no longer formed the core of the 3rd world dynamic, the
following took their place as core leadership: Mark all that are true
a. Fidel Castro, Cuba
b. Algeria’s Houari Boumedienne
c. Zambia’s Kenneth Kaunda
d. Jamaica’s Michael manly
17. True=A False=B The Vietnamese peasants victory against The French, Japanese, and then
American empires was a shock to the 3rd world, an inspiration and a victory.
18. NAM supported what Che referred to as the Second, Third or Fourth Vietnams in the following
places, mark all that are true:
a. Algeria
b. Mozambique
c. Angola
d. Cabo Verde
19. True=A False= B Nkrumah’s strategy against imperialism in Ghana led to the creation of a oneparty state, and the attempt to delink Ghana from the global capitalist economy before a CIA
attempted coup.
20. Successful armed struggles against Imperialism in the 1960s and 1970s in Africa include: Mark all
that are true
a. South Africa’s Umkhonto we Sizwe (1961)
b. the MPLA, FRELIMO and PAIGC wars against the Portuguese
c. The Zimbabwe’s African Peoples Union or ZANU (victory by 1974)
d. The South-west African Peoples Organization (1966-1974)
e. 1962 victory in Algeria; 1974 victories in Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Sao
tome
21. Successful armed struggles against Imperialism in the 1960s and 1970s in Southeast Asia include:
Mark the exception
a. Vietnam (1975)
b. Laos and (1975)
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c. Cambodia (1975)
d. Indonesia
22. According to Cabral, the peoples struggle to realize a socialist vision was against their own
weaknesses and obstacles, which included: Mark all that are true:
a. internal contradictions in the economic, social, cultural and historical reality of the new
countries.
b. immense fiscal burdens
c. the colonial education system that had deprived them of scientific and technological talent
which they had to cultivate within a generation
d. The colonial matrix of inferiority and cultural division had a marked influence
e. The leaders had to answer to the entrenched old social classes