Nationalists
Toussait L'ouverture helped build a nationalist movement that led to a successful slave revolt in this island country.
Haiti
This man helped lead India to independence through a completely nonviolent peace process.
Mohandas Gandhi
In 1962, the Soviet Union provided intercontinental ballistic nuclear missiles to support Fidel Castro and this communist island under threat from the United States.
Cuba
This US centered military alliance was created during the Cold War still exists today.
NATO
Benito Mussolini became the world's first fascist dictator when he overthrew the government in this European country.
Italy
Creole nationalist leader who help unite Latin Americans against Spanish rule in the early 19th century.
Simon Bolivar
FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela worked together to end this system of racial inequality in South Africa.
Apartheid
The Soviet Union rose to power under this long time leader who is credited with advancing the country with his 5 Year Plans.
Joseph Stalin
This communist country is the US' biggest competitor in the modern world due to their large population and growing economy.
China
This country was created by the UN after WWII as a homeland for Jews following the Holocaust.
Israel
Leader of the Vietnamese resistance to the French, Japanese, and American imperialist forces.
Ho Chi Minh
This final Soviet premier won the Nobel Peace Prize with US President Ronald Reagan due to their work on ending the Arms Race between their countries.
Mikhail Gorbachev
World War I
This group of people largely displaced during a 1948 UN partition plan still do not have a universally recognized independent country of their own.
Palestinians
This is the only country to ever suffer a nuclear attack.
Japan
Kwame Nkrumah led one of the first successful nationalist movements in this country.
Ghana
This philosophical movement that developed in the 17th and 18th centuries taught people that they had value in the world and didn't need to just follow the leader.
The Enlightenment
The Battle of Stalingrad was a major turning point in this conflict.
World War II
OPEC is an international organization the largely controls the production and pricing of this important Global resource.
Oil
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was a such a bad leader that people of this country rose up against him, leading to the creation of new theocratic government.
Iran
Although separated by decades, Gavrilo Princip and Slobodan Milosevic both committed violence in the name of this ethnic group.
Serbs
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was able to rebuild Turkiye as a modern democratic state from the ashes of this empire that collapsed during WWI.
Ottoman Empire
The name of the mutual defense treaty formed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Warsaw Pact
These two countries partitioned in 1947 still continue to have occasional conflicts that concern the world due to their nuclear capabilities.
India and Pakistan
Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo engaged in a large scale protest movement against a military dictatorship that disappeared their children in this country.
Argentina