Cold War
This literally divided the former German capital and symbolically served as a division between East and West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
After World War II many European controlled territories sought independence in what became known as:
What is decolonization?
Country which saw some of the worst fighting during the war in the Balkans.
What is Bosnia?
Europe achieved a common currency and removed inter European borders through this:
What is the European Union?
The killing of over 6 million people including millions of Jews, Soviet POWs, Communists, and Roma.
What is the Holocaust?
The Warsaw Pact was the Soviet counterpart to this Western security alliance.
What is NATO?
While Britain lost most of its colonial empire, they did retain these small islands following a war with Argentina.
What are the Falkland Islands?
Czechoslovakia would peacefully split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia in what was known as the _______ Divorce.
What is Velvet?
The increased economic ties of all countries as well as the spread is ideas creating a more universal culture is known as:
What is globalization?
Economic woes caused by this worldwide event helped fuel WWII.
What is the Great Depression?
The Soviet invasion of this country led to a disastrous war and was a major factor in the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What is Afghanistan?
Gandhi led an independence movement centered on civil disobedience in this former crown jewel of the British Empire.
What is India?
The dissolution of this Balkan country saw the worst violence and ethnic cleansing to take place in Europe since WWII.
What is Yugoslavia?
After a controversial referendum Britain voted to leave and retain greater sovereignty over immigration and economic matters in what became known as:
What is Brexit?
Disastrous policy of PM Chamberlain towards Hitler in attempt to avoid large scale war.
What is appeasement?
Gorbachev enacted this reform that allowed some capitalist economic reforms:
What is Perestroika?
France failed to retain this country whose war for independence was led by Ho Chi Minh:
What is Vietnam?
After the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Russia fought two wars to retain this Muslim region that sought independence.
What is Chechnya?
Initially Hitler and Stalin maintained this policy of not attacking one another.
What is the non-aggression pact?
Gorbachev's second signature policy which provided for more openness in political practices and freedom of speech.
What is Glasnost?
This French colony gained independence through a bloody conflict which the French public turned against as footage was shown on TV in their homes.
What is Algeria?
Sectarian violence between protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland was known as:
What is The Troubles?
The economic integration of Europe and removal of trade barriers between European states began with these two industries.
What are coal and steel?
Mussolini's Italy gave rise to this ideology also adopted by Hitler's Germany.
What is fascism?