Detente
Events
Resistance and Decolonization
Space Race
People
Grab Bag
Quotes
Grab Bag Two
100
Diplomatically, this word means a thawing of tensions.
What is detente?
100
Its construction in Eastern Europe begins in 1961 and it is destroyed in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
In 1947 India was divided into Pakistan and India drawn along religious lines.
What is the Partition?
100
First satellite in orbit.
What was Sputnik?
100
President who authorized the dropping of the Atom Bombs on Japan.
Who is Harry Truman?
100
Based on the idea of containment - This promised American Aid to countries fighting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended across the continent.
Who is Winston Churchill?
100
Military Alliance between the US and Western European Nations.
What is NATO?
200
This nation was formally dissolved on December 25, 1991.
What was the Soviet Union?
200
This Conference determined Post War goals of the allies - Truman, Churchill (then Attlee) and Stalin.
What was the Potsdam Conference?
200
This act of civil disobedience, led by Gandhi in 1930, protested The British policy of monopolizing a staple item in India.
What was the Salt March?
200
This place in Boulder was inspired by the Space Race
What is Scott Carpenter Park?
200
India's First Prime Minister.
Who is Nehru?
200
The United States gave money and support to rebuild Western European infrastructure - with the agreement of fair and free elections.
What was the Marshall Plan?
200
The Buck Stops Here
Who is Harry Truman?
200
Defense Treaty between the USSR and its Satellite nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
This acronym represented a treaty on reducing nuclear arms.
What was SALT?
300
A failed attempt by the US to support a coup overthrowing Castro in Cuba.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
300
This legal form of segregation and discrimination legally ended in South Africa in 1994.
What is apartheid?
300
The US beat the USSR in this round of the space race.
What is landing on the moon?
300
Founder of Pakistan
Who is Muhammad Jinnah?
300
Location of Iron Curtain Speech.
What is Fulton, Missouri?
300
This President stated "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Who is Ronald Reagan?
300
What do these leaders have in common? RFK, MLK Jr., Gandhi, Lord Mountbatten.
What is assassination?
400
These two leaders signed the SALT I treaty.
Who were Brezhnev and Nixon?
400
Closest the US and Soviet Union came to nuclear war when missiles were placed in a communist nation in the Western Hemisphere.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
First President of South Korea.
Who is Syngman Rhee?
400
SDI (referring to the US program to destroy incoming Soviet Missiles) was more commonly know by this moniker.
What is Star Wars?
400
Replaced and distanced himself from Stalin as the Soviet Premier.
Who is Nikita Khruschev?
400
Proxy war fought in Africa in 1975 - caused by European boundaries which conflicted with traditional cultural boundaries.
What is Angola?
400
"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard"
Who is John F Kennedy?
400
Important innovation in medicine that saved 100,000 troops in WWII.
What is penicillin?
500
Russian words for opening up of Soviet Society and restructuring of the Communist economy.
What are glasnost and perestroika?
500
The Invasion of this Central Asian nation amplified the Cold War in 1979.
What is Afghanistan?
500
This event in Czechoslovakia in 1968, provided more civil liberties to the citizenry.
What is the Prague Spring?
500
First person in outer space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
500
He originated the idea of containment.
Who is George Kennan?
500
Movement begun in 1961 by Nehru (India), Nkrumah, Nasser and Sukarno to stay neutral during the Cold War.
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
500
“I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.”
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
500
Sirimavo Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka is the World's first.
What is female Prime Minister?