Cold War
The US foreign policy was directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism
Containment
A Cuban Communist revolutionary and politician who was the leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2008
Fidel Castro
Major Rival Blocs in the Cold War
US and USSR
What did the Supreme Court rule in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 1954:
Segregated schools were unconstitutional
The total value of all goods and services produced by a nation
Gross National Product
The post World War II U.S. assistance program provided 13 billion dollars worth of food and materials to countries in need
Marshall Plan
A South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader who served as the first president of South Africa in 1994
Nelson Mandela
Which of the following events prompted the United Nations to issue the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Holocaust in Europe
Tensions between which of the following groups resulted in the partitioning of India?
Muslims and Hindus
The deliberate use of violence to achieve a political goal
Terrorism
International organization formed to maintain international peace and security
United Nations
An American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesman and leader in the American civil rights movement
Martin Luther King Jr.
Winston Churchill described Soviet control of Eastern Europe as an "_________ _________" dividing the continent.
Iron Curtain
The students who were killed in ________ ________ were protesting the Chinese government's:
Tiananmen Square
A Russian politician and former intelligence officer who is the current president of Russia
Vladimir Putin
An ultraconservative political and religious faction that emerged in Afghanistan in the mid-1990s
Taliban
A Chinese communist revolutionary who was the founder of the People's Republic of China and Chinese Communist Party in 1949
Mao Zedong
Which of the following is the name of the alliance established by Communist nations in response to the establishment of NATO?
Warsaw Pact
The conflict between the Palestinians and Jews centered around?
An Iraqi politician who served as the fifth president of Iraq
Saddam Hussein
A system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa until the 1990s
Apartheid
A Soviet politician, the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union of Russia
The United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear war in 1962 over Soviet missiles in what country?
Cuba
Osama bin Laden used hideouts in Afghanistan for his global network of terrorists called _____________ / which attacked the USA on ______________.
Al Qaeda/ Sept 11, 2001
When is your Cold War test
A day on the 19th
B day on the 20th