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What countries made up the allied forces in WWII?
Britain, France, USA (and Soviet Union)
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The period of bipolar superpowers, a series of proxy wars, and INCREASED tensions between the USA and the USSR is referred to as the:
Cold War
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Who was Nelson Mandela?
First black president of South Africa who helped end apartheid there.
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The Normandy Invasion occurred on what date?
June 6, 1944
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The interchange of social, political, economical, and entertainment ideas across cultures is referred to as:
Globalization
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What event occurred on December 7, 1941 and the bombing of a U.S. military base?
Pearl Harbor
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The Truman Doctrine stated that the United States would:
Help contain communism
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What was the American President in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
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The names of the two cities in Japan where the USA dropped atomic bombs in August 1945:
Nagasaki & Hiroshima
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Nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are all...
Weapons of Mass Destruction
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What international organization was formed at the end of World War II to maintain peace?
United Nations
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The 1961 event that put the entire world on the brink of catastrophe and students everywhere practicing "duck and cover" techniques:
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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The head of North Korea during the entirety of the Korean War?
Kim Il-Sung
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Which two groups have fought over the same land in the Middle East?
Palestinian Arabs and Israelis
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What was the result of the Yalta Conference?
Russia agreed to enter the war against the Japan
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What event marked the beginning of World War II?
The German invasion of Poland
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The period of RELAXED tensions during the Cold War is referred to as:
Detente
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The name of the "Paramount Leader" of China, responsible for making China a global leader in the world market place:
Deng Xiaoping
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South Africa's apartheid system was designed to...
Protect and keep the white minority control over the country
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The decision to drop the atomic bombs was one of the most controversial, but after much deliberation Truman did go through with it. What was his primary reasoning?
The bomb would save hundreds of thousands of American lives that would have otherwise be lost.
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The "iron curtain" is what?
a figurative separator between the Eastern communism and Western democracy of Europe.
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Pushed by Mao Zedong, it was an economic revival meant to push China towards a prosperous future but instead killed millions and put the country in a Great Famine.
Great Leap Forward
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Who was the leader of the U.S.S. R. in the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Khrushchev
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The genocide occurred in 1994 and involved the Hutu government leaders exterminating the rival Tutsi people with machetes and war rape:
Rwandan Genocide
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What was considered the primary cause of WWII?
Reparations on Germany after WWI and extreme nationalism
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