Enduring Issues
The Armenian Genocide, The Holocaust, The Rape of Nanking
What is Inequality?
In October 1962, this 13-day confrontation brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war over missile installations in the Caribbean.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1962 confrontation brought the United States and Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war, involving missile deployments in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This political campaign launched by Mao Zedong in 1958 aimed to rapidly industrialize China but resulted in massive economic disaster and widespread famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
Home of the Blue Devils, this is the college that Mr. Marchese is graduating from
What is SUNY Fredonia?
World War I, World War II, The Sino-Japanese War, and the Russo Japanese War
What is Conflict?
Depending on who you ask, The United States either lost this war due to the country falling to Communism, or they won due to the significantly lower death toll than the enemy side.
What is the Vietnam War?
Gorbachev's policy of "openness" that encouraged greater transparency and freedom of information in Soviet society.
What is Glasnost?
During this decade-long period of social and political upheaval, Mao mobilized youth to attack traditional Chinese culture and purge political opponents.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
As the dictator of a country this is one thing you should never try to do to modernize your nation.
What is collective farming?
The airplane, radar, and mustard gas
What is innovation?
Mimicking the act of "Making it Rain" Mr. Peterson meant to use the action as a way to help teach about this is the plan created by the United States to help rebuild war torn countries to keep them from going to Communism.
What is the Marshall plan?
This economic strategy implemented by Stalin involved centralized planning of industrial and agricultural production across multiple years.
What are the Five-Year Plans?
What is AIDS?
What is Agriculture, Industry, Defense, and Science and Technology?
This is how you pronounce this word: Totalitarian
Totalitarian
Allies, The UN, Axis, NATO, etc.
What is Cooperation?
This 1947 foreign policy doctrine promised economic and military aid to countries threatened by Soviet communist expansion.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
The Soviet leader who negotiated with President Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis and ultimately agreed to remove missiles from Cuba.
Who is Nikkita Khrushchev?
This landmark political movement in 1989, brutally suppressed by the Chinese government, represented a significant challenge to the Communist Party's authority in Beijing.
What is the Tiananmen Square protests?
This is the name of this symbol: "ΓΌ" usually over vowels
What is an Umlaut?
The lack of a warm water port in Russia, Japan invading China to gain resources, the result of the Holodomors.
What is scarcity?
Known as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) Conan O'Brian visited the border created as a result of this war.
What is the Korean War?
This Soviet leader's policy of "restructuring" aimed to revive the stagnating Soviet economy by introducing limited market-like reforms and reducing central economic control.
What is Perestroika?
This is the title that I have called Mao Zedong multiple times
The Venerable Chairman Mao Zedong
This Canadian born game show host is was the actual host of Jeopardy for over 30 years until his death in 2020.
Who is Alex Trebeck?