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100
The Cuban Missile Crisis developed after this Cuban leader developed close ties with the Soviet Union, which began to ship nuclear missiles to Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
The roots of the 1994 genocide in this country come from Belgian colonial discrimination that had favored the Tutsi ethnic group over the majority Hutu population.
What is Rwanda?
100
This Soviet leader’s slogan “Socialism in One Country” angered some Communists, who felt that socialism had to be an international movement.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
This man, a member of the Saudi royal family, became the leader of the Islamist group al-Qaeda and found refuge under the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
100
Conflict in this country pitted the communist leader Ho Chi Minh against the United States and highlighted Cold War tensions.
What is Vietnam?
200
The Great Depression began in 1929 with this event, which was followed by a series of bank failures in Europe and years of sustained deflation.
What is the Wall Street Crash of 1929?
200
This Egyptian leader became a Pan-Arab hero due to his role in nationalizing the Suez Canal in 1956 and his fierce support of the Palestinian cause.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser?
200
This Italian leader, known by his supporters as Il Duce, brought fascism to the country and ruled as an authoritarian dictator.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
200
The 1979 revolution in this country gave rise to a theocracy led by the Shi’ite cleric Ayatollah Khomeini, who labeled the United States as “the Great Satan.”
What is Iran?
200
This 1989 event in Beijing began as a student protest demanding freedom and democracy but ended in the deaths of hundreds (perhaps thousands) of protesters.
What is the Tiananmen Square Massacre?
300
Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa were both assassinated by a former coalition member during the revolution in this country.
What is Mexico?
300
Nelson Mandela led this organization in his attempt to fight apartheid in South Africa, eventually becoming the country’s first democratically elected president in 1994.
What is the African National Congress?
300
During this conflict between conservatives and nationalist forces, which is often seen as a prelude to World War II, General Francisco Franco received support from Nazi Germany while his opposition was backed by the Soviet Union.
What is the Spanish Civil War?
300
The First Gulf War, which pitted Iraq against a coalition that included the United States and Saudi Arabia, was sparked by Iraq’s invasion of this oil-rich neighbor.
What is Kuwait?
300
In 1997, the most significant international effort to address global warming was undertaken at a meeting in this Japanese city.
What is Kyoto?
400
This 1941 agreement between Winston Churchill and Franklin established Allied goals for the post-war world, including an affirmation of Wilsonian principles of self-determination of nations.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
400
During a civil conflict in this country in the 1960s, Che Guevara and a group of Cuban commandos attempted to support the Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who had been labeled a communist by the West.
What is the Congo?
400
After World War I, Germany created this new government based on a liberal constitution, although it soon fell due to economic challenges and the rise of Hitler.
What is the Weimar Republic?
400
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, this man established the Republic of Turkey in 1923 and pushed for secular politics and increased education for women.
Who is Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)?
400
In an attempt to rapidly industrialize China, Mao Zedong launched this program in 1958, which ultimately led to economic collapse and millions of deaths from famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
500
Salvador Allende, the socialist leader elected president of this country in 1970, was overthrown in a U.S.-backed coup in 1973 that placed the military dictator Augusto Pinochet in power.
What is Chile?
500
This man, who became the first president of an independent Ghana after 1957, was an international symbol of rising African aspirations and the strength of global Pan-Africanism.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
500
This leader presided over the collapse of the Soviet Union after having called for openness (glasnost) in politics and restructuring (perestroika)of the economy.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
In 1917, the British government signed this document, which committed them to helping create “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
500
This Indian statements helped negotiate the end of British colonial rule and served as independent India’s first prime minister from 1947 to 1964.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
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