Collapse of the Soviet Union
This country resisted Soviet occupation until Soviet forces withdrew.
What is Afghanistan?
Three ways in which the worldviews of the United States and the Soviet Union were opposed?
What is economically, politically, and religiously?
This man lead a passive resistance movement to gain independence in India.
Who was Gandhi?
South Korean troops at Inchon drove invaders back across this line dividing the Korean peninsula?
What is the 38th parallel?
This German chancellor tripled his nation's income and nationally produced goods.
Who is Konrad Adenauer?
A campaign to plant or restore democracy to European countries was lead by President Ronald Reagan and this British Prime Minister.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
Chiang Kai-shek established this democratic government in Taiwan.
What is the Republic of China?
What is the Third World?
A missile crisis arose when the United States discovered that the Soviets had placed nuclear missiles in this country.
What is Cuba?
This president of France established the Fifth Republic.
Who is Charles de Gaulle?
This Polish worker formed the Solidarity movement which resulted in Polish independence.
Who is Lech Walesa?
Mao Zedong's economic plan for China which resulted in lowered production and famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
First African nation to achieve independence
What is Ghana?
Vietnamese communist Ho Chi Minh destroyed the French army in Vietnam at this battle.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
This plan called for America funds to help countries like Japan to rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This man replaced Nikita Khrushchev and was eventually elected the first president of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
What is the Cultural Revolution?
The Balfour Declaration lead to Israel becoming a nation on this date.
What is May 14, 1948
This nation was the first to harness the power of the atom.
What is the United States?
This organization was founded to protect member countries, like Greece, from Soviet Aggression.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
True or False:
Missionaries from the West can now obtain visas and minster in former communist countries.
True
Site of a political protest in China that resulted in military troops killing over 2,000 people.
What is Tiananmen Square?
Israel pre-emptively struck against an Arab invasion and enhanced its security during this conflict.
What is the Six-Day War?
The first man-made satellite.
What is Sputnik?
These policies caused high taxes, high unemployment, and regulations for Great Britain and France.
What is welfare state?