Exercise 10. Match the list of proper names with the best definition. What do you know about these persons? Make up dialogues.
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Exercise 9. Explain the words in bold and then match them with the best definition.
1. a collapse, 2. a missile, 3. a satellite, 4. arms race, 5. containment, 6. deployment, 7. détente, 8. deterioration, 9. espionage, 10. recovery, 11. tension, 12. to withdraw
| a) mental or emotional strain; stress b) a country or political unit under the domination of a foreign power c) a return to a normal condition d) a policy of creating strategic alliances in order to check the expansion of a hostile power or ideology or to force it to negotiate peacefully e) a competition between nations to have the most powerful armaments | f) a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control g) the distribution of forces in preparation for battle or work h) the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets i) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) j) a sudden failure or breakdown k) pull back, move away or backward l) a process of changing to an inferior state |
a) Erich Honecker, b) Fidel Castro, c) Kim Il-sung, d) Leonid Brezhnev, e) Mao Zedong, f) Margaret Thatcher, g) Mikhail Gorbachev, h) Patrice Lumumba, i) Ronald Reagan
Margaret Thatcher
| 1. The 40th President of the United States (1911-2004) 2. A British politician and longest-serving (1979–1990) British prime minister of the 20th century, and the only woman to have held the post. 3. A Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991 4. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, presiding over the country from 1964 until his death in 1982 5. The 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. | |
| 6. A Chinese Communist leader, guerrilla warfare strategist, Marxist political philosopher, and leader of the Chinese Revolution. 7. A Korean communist politician who ruled North Korea, from its establishment in 1948 until his death in 1994. He held the posts of Prime Minister from 1948 to 1972 and President from 1972 to his death. He was also the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea from 1949 to 1994. 8. A Congolese independence leader and the first legally elected Prime Minister of the Republic of the Congo after he helped win its independence from Belgium in June 1960. 9. A Cuban revolutionary and politician, having held the position of Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and then President from 1976 to 2008 10. A German communist politician who led the German Democratic Republic as General Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1971 until 1989. | 
Fidel Castro
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Exercise 11. Complete the text “The Vietnam War”, using words from the box. Use a dictionary to help you if necessary. Explain the words in bold.
1. armed forces, 2. died, 3. fought, 4. guerrilla warfare, 5. Henry Kissinger, 6. Indochina, 7. invasion, 8. involvement, 9. John F. Kennedy, 10. Lyndon Johnson, 11. North Vietnam, 12. offensive, 13. Richard Nixon, 14. South Vietnam, 15. taken over, 16. Vietnam, 17. wholeheartedly, 18. withdrawn
| It was a war in Southeast Asia, in which the United States a) …..in the 1960s and 1970s. The war was waged from 1954 to 1975 between communist North Vietnam and noncommunist b) ….., two parts of what was once the French colony of c) …... Vietnamese communists attempted to take over the South, both by d) …..from the North and by e) …..conducted within the South by the Viet Cong. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and f) …..sent increasing numbers of American military advisers to South Vietnam in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Kennedy's successor, President g) ….., increased American military support greatly, until half a million United States soldiers were in Vietnam. American goals in h) …..proved difficult to achieve, and the communists' Tet i) …..was a severe setback. Reports |
of atrocities committed by both sides in the war disturbed many Americans. Eventually, President j) ….. decreased American troop strength and sent his secretary of state, k) ….., to negotiate a cease-fire with l) …... American troops were m) …..in 1973, and South Vietnam was completely n) …..by communist forces in 1975.
The o) …..of the United States in the war was extremely controversial. Some supported it p) …..; others opposed it in mass demonstrations and by refusing to serve in the American q) …... Still others seemed to rely on the government to decide the best course of action. A large memorial bearing the names of all members of the United States armed services who r) …..in the Vietnam War is in Washington, D.C. http://www.answers.com/topic/vietnam-war