The USSR collapsed in the 1980s in part because of a failing ________.
What is an economy?
100
The two sides of this country's civil war that lasted from before WWII until after were the _________ and the _____. Which did the US support?
What is the communists?
What is the nationalists?
What is the US supported the nationalists?
100
This country controlled Indochina (including Vietnam) until WWII. After WWII, it was forced out by the Vietnamese army.
What is France?
100
She was the prime minister of India during the 70s and 80s.
Who is Indira Gandhi?
100
He was the last President of the USSR. He stepped down when the USSR ended in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
Nationalism led these countries to break away from the USSR in the 1980s.
What are the Soviet satellites, the Eastern Block countries etc.?
200
The leader of the Chinese nationalists was ________.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
200
He was the leader of the Vietnamese against the French and against the US during the Vietnam War of the 1960s and 1970s.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
200
During Gandhi's rule, she moved India closer to an alliance with the __________.
What is the USSR?
200
Gorbachev had two famous policies to try to halt the decline of the USSR. ________ increased political freedom. ________ increased economic freedom. Singing part of your answer in the appropriate manner will win you appreciation.
What is Glasnost and Perestroika?
300
This appeared in 1961 and disappeared in 1989. It is said to be hidden on the moon.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
He was the leader of the Chinese communists during the civil war and afterwards.
Who is Mao Zedong?
300
The US supported the _______ during the Vietnam War. This was a result of the policy of _________ adopted by the US during the Cold War.
What is the South
What is the policy of Containment?
300
During Gandhi's rule, India developed these __________.
What are nuclear weapons?
300
This part of the USSR's empire broke away due to nationalism. Gorbachev let it go.
What is eastern Europe?
400
It broke up in 1991, although it refused to return the ring. The largest chunk of it that remains today is _________.
What is the USSR?
What is Russia?
400
When the Nationalists lost, they retreated to the island of __________, off the coast of China.
What is Taiwan?
400
Vietnam ended its war of the 1960s by becoming a ______, _______ country (two answers).
What is reunited, communist?
400
She was the prime minister of Great Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
400
He was the leader of China during the Eighties and part of the Nineties. He introduced __________ reforms to the Chinese economy.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
What are free market reforms?
500
He attempted to save the USSR from decline, but his policies proved too little too late.
Who is Gorbachev?
500
This organization has continued to control China up until the present day.
What is the communist party?
500
They occupied Vietnam during WWII.
Who is Japan?
500
Thatcher moved the United Kingdom closer to the ______. She also led the UK in a war to keep the _________ in the South Atlantic.
What is the USA?
What are the Falkland Islands?
500
This massacred occurred in Beijing, the capital of China, in 1989 as a result of a massive protest for greater freedom.