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A attempt to burgle and bug the Democratic Party election headquarters led this president to resign in 1974.
Who is Nixon?
An OPEC embargo caused the price of this product to quadruple in 1973.
What is oil?
Later awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, he became leader of the USSR in 1985.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Who is Simone Veil?
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This terms refers to the combination of inflation and a lack of economic growth.
What is stagflation?
In 1972, the Palestinian group Black September murdered the entire Israeli Olympics team in this German city.
What is Munich?
A catastrophic nuclear explosion took place in 1986 near this Soviet city.
What is Chernobyl?
These three countries joined what was then known as the EEC in the 1970s.
What are Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark?
Adopted in 1977, the Four Modernizations sought to improve China's agriculture, science, industry, and this.
What is national defense?
This fatal disease spread among the gay male community during the 1980s
What is AIDS?
Under President Carter, the Camp David Accords brought peace between which two Middle Eastern countries?
What are Egypt and Israel?
The Berlin Wall fell in this month and year.
What is November, 1989?
The 1992 treaty signed in this Dutch city turned the EEC into the European Union and expanded its powers.
What is Maastricht?
A massacre in this central Beijing square in 1989 revealed the regime's determination to quash political dissent.
What is Tienanmen?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalised abortion across the US
What is Roe v Wade?
The US secretly supported these Islamic rebels during the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War.
Who are the Mujahideen?
These two Russian terms describe the new Soviet regime's key economic and political reforms.
What are perestroika and glasnost?
Most of the EU's budget was spent on this policy in the 1980s.
What is the Common Agricultural Policy?
Diplomatic relations between the US and China were official restored under this US President.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
Published in the Washington Post and the New York Times, this 1971 report exposed how the government misled Americans for over a decade about the Vietnam War
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This Iranian ruler was overthrown by the Ayatollah in 1979.
Who is Reza Shah Pahlavi?
In 1980, the Solidarity trade union movement in this country challenged the Soviet hegemony.
What is Poland?
Great Britain voted (52%) to leave the EU in this year.
What is 2016?
The rapprochement between the US and China was first initiated when US players of this sport visited China.
What is ping-pong?