This is when competing countries build up their armies and weapons.
What is an arms race?
100
This plan, named after a United States general, was intended to prevent the spread of Communism by offering to help rebuild European countries after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
This economic agreement started in 1957 with just six nations. It now currently has 28. The greatest success of this agreement has been the introduction of the euro in European economies.
What is the European Union?
100
This is the current president of Russia. His reforms have led to an increase in Russian economy and trade agreements with other nations.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
This worldwide program, named after a Japanese city and signed by 141 nations, calls on countries to reduce their air pollution.
What is the Kyoto Protocol?
200
This is when a society is preoccupied with buying goods and products.
What is a consumer society?
200
This country was split into two pieces after World War II. The east was controlled by Communist Russia, and the west was controlled by the democratic United States.
What is Germany?
200
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a leader during this movement during the 1960s, which advocated equality for African-Americans.
What is the civil rights movement?
200
This American president resigned from office after the Watergate scandal, when he attempted to illegally gain information about his political opponents.
Who is Richard Nixon?
200
This Supreme Court case states that women have the right to choose abortion.
What is Roe v. Wade?
300
This barrier separated a city in Germany for over 40 years before being torn down in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
The belief that if Vietnam fell to Communism, other countries would also turn to Communism
What is the Domino Theory?
300
The women's liberation movement, also known in modern terms as this, emphasizes the equality of women in the workplace.
What is feminism?
300
A series of these broke out in Eastern Europe when Mikhail Gorbachev refused to continue to support Communist governments.
What are revolutions?
300
This concept is based on the controversies and problems of religion interacting with government. Example issues include Muslim girls wearing headscarves in public schools and using federal tax money to build private religious schools.
What is the separation of church and state?
400
This Serbian policy of killing or forcibly removing people from their lands was compared to the Holocaust in it's brutality and tragedy.
What is ethnic cleansing?
400
This peninsula, located near Japan, was the location of a 'hot war' during the Cold War era.
What is Korea?
400
Great Britain's economic decline led to a breakup of the British Empire. The new government created this system, by which the government provides services and a standard of living for it's citizens.
What is a welfare state?
400
The United States of America, first under President George W. Bush and currently under President Barack Obama, is waging an ongoing war against this concept.
What is terrorism?
400
This is where a Western nation controls other world cultures by influencing their language, music, and ideas.
What is cultural imperialism?
500
This is entertainment created for a profit and a mass audience.
What is popular culture?
500
This event almost took the world into nuclear war after Russia began placing nuclear missiles on an island only 90 miles away from the United States.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This war hero of France helped establish the Fourth French Republic and became the first president of the Fifth French Republic. His reforms helped France regain some of the power it lost during World War II.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
500
This economic policy, created by Great Britain's first female prime minster, limited social welfare and restricted union power.
What is Thatcherism?
500
This is an artistic revival of traditional elements and techniques, including traditional painting and craft work.