A system of networks that connects computers around the world
What is the Internet?
100
If one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow
What is the domino theory?
100
ANC
What is the African National Congress?
100
A leader of the Baath Party and became president of Iraq in 1979
Who is Saddam Hussein?
200
An imaginary boundary dividing Europe
What is the iron curtain?
200
The elimination of an ethnic group from society through killing or forced emigration
What is ethnic cleansing?
200
He led the Muslim League, an organization that worked for the interests of India's Muslims
Who is Muhammad Ali Jinnah?
200
A leader of Kenya's nationalist movement who argued for the Kikuyu's right to the land and its importance
Who is Jomo Kenyatta?
200
1990
When did Iraq invade Kuwait?
300
Communism and capitalist democracy
What was the Cold War a conflict between?
300
The leader of the republic of Russia
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
300
Sought to rid China of its old ways and create a society in which peasants and physical labor were the ideal (1960s)
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
A turning point in the anti-apartheid movement
What is the Sharpeville Massacre?
300
Attempts to regulate the production of oil exports to maximize revenues
What is the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries?
400
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan
What demonstrated the West's Cold War policy of containment?
400
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of Soviet-backed regimes in Eastern Europe
What caused the collapse of the Soviet Union?
400
South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
Who became known as the Asian Tigers?
400
Usually represent royalty, ancestors, animals or spirits and are made from wood, metals, and clay
What are key characteristics of African sculptures?
400
A Shia religious leader
Who is Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini?
500
"Our difficulties and dangers will not be removed by closing our eyes to them. They will not be removed by mere waiting to see what happens; nor will they be removed by a policy of appeasement."
What did Winston Churchill say in his speech?
500
Russia, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan
What are the 15 republics that made up the Soviet Union?
500
"...China has no alternative but to follow this road. It is the only road to prosperity."
What did Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping say in his speech about economic reforms?
500
Liberia, Libya, Egypt, and South Africa
What 4 countries in Africa have been independent the longest time?
500
She spent much of her life working toward the creation of Israel and helping build the foundation of the new country after it achieved independence in 1948