This was the first British colony in West Africa to gain independence.
What is Ghana?
100
This acronym refers to the certainty that both combatants would be annihilated should the war "heat up".
What is MAD?
100
This was the prominent theory that if one asian nation would fall to communism others would follow and was used to justify US involvement in the region.
What is the Domino theory?
100
This is an agreement that establishes the right to search for and profit from oil found within a country.
What is an oil concession?
100
This famous "battle" began when the Soviets launched Sputnik in 1957.
What is the "Space Race"?
200
This former French colony in North Africa fought a violent struggle for its independence in the 50's before France reluctantly let it go.
What is Algeria?
200
This authorized the spending of US dollars to support nations in Europe in order to stop the spread of communism. It funded the policy of containment.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This back and forth war saw US hero Douglas Macarthur relieved from duty before finally settling at the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
200
This agreement was written by French and British diplomats to break up the remnants of the Ottoman Empire between them, betraying an agreement for Arab self determination.
What is the Sykes-Picot agreement?
200
This was the USSR's response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
this name was taken by newly independent nations that did not want to choose a side in the Cold War. Some were able to take advantage of the rivalry.
What are nonaligned nations
300 extra point if you can identify the continent that contained the most of these.
300
Kennedy set up a blockade around Cuba to stop any Soviet ship carrying weapons.
What did the president do to bring the Cuban Missile Crisis to an end?
300
The US orchestrated a change in the Guatemalan government leadership when the former leader wanted to nationalize land owned by this banana merchant company.
What is United Fruit Company?
300 additional points if you can name the leader who was ousted.
300
This was the new Jewish state created by the United Nations after Great Britain abandoned its mandate of Palestine.
What is Israel?
300
These were the five permanent members of the UN Security Council.
What are USA, GB, USSR, China, France?
500 additional points if you can explain why the west (USA) was able to get so many resolutions passed in the early years.
400
He was a leader of the ANC and led an organized resistance to white rule in South Africa in the 1960's. He later won the Nobel peace prize and was elected that countries president in the 1990's.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
400
He named the line that separated east and west in Europe the Iron Curtain.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
This leader of the struggle to remove the French from power in Indochina became the chief antagonist in the conflict above and below the 17th parallel.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400 additional points if you can name his soldiers and the southern insurgents who fought on his behalf.
400
This official statement established British support for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
400
After the Soviets blocked access to a divided German city in order to force western allies to depend on the east for food and supplies the US and her allies were able to pull off this amazing logistical transportation miracle.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
A bitter dispute rages on regarding the rightful control of this region between India and Pakistan. H2O Baby!
What is Kashmir?
Why H20? Explain with specific names for 500 points.
500
This was one of the most visible and watched symbols of the cold war. It was news when it went up and as it came down.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
US support of the rebels in this Soviet conflict likely led to the end of the Soviet Union but, arguably, also led to the prominence of the Taliban and their support of Al Queda.
What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
500
This "cartel" of oil producing nations reached the peak of its power in the 1970's. It has lost some influence in the decades since but still can influence the global economy.
What is OPEC?
500
A system of defense against Soviet ICBM's was devised that set up circles of launch sites, for these missiles, around the major cities in the US. Particularly on the eastern seaboard.