Cold War
Decolonization
Democracy
Terrorism
Human Rights and End of the Cold War
100
Reducing Cold War tensions
What is detente?
100
Refusing to obey an unjust law, without using violence
What is nonviolence/civil disobedience?
100
A massacre in China in 1989 that killed hundreds of student protestors
What is Tiananmen Square?
100
A strict interpretation of religion and the belief that one religion alone has the answers
What is fundamentalism?
100
Complete separation of races in South Africa?
What is apartheid?
200
Developing, unaligned nations
What is the Third World?
200
The divide between India and Pakistan following independence
What is partition?
200
This event caused Germany to reunify
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
200
Group that governed Afghanistan before the current war and helped aid terrorist groups
What is the Taliban?
200
Russian leader who introduced reforms to the Soviet economy and politics
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
Divide between the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites and the West
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Violent event that made Indians want independence from the British even more
What is the Amritsar Massacre?
300
Failed Chinese government plan to increase agriculture and industry
What is the Great Leap Forward?
300
Rights of this group of people were severely limited in Afghanistan
Who are women?
300
Complete destruction of a group of people based on their race, religion, or ethnicity
What is genocide?
400
"Solution" to the Cuban Missile Crisis
What is removing missiles from Cuba and Turkey and American promises not to invade Cuba?
400
Major Arab group that opposes Israel
What is the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization)?
400
Labor movement in Poland that sought to rid the country of Communist rule
What is Solidarity?
400
One of the "rivers of rage" that contributed to 9/11?
What is anger at US/anger at Arab dictators/frustration that the Muslim world has fallen behind the West?
400
Soviet policy of political "openness"
What is glasnost?
500
Countries receiving aid from the Truman Doctrine
What are Greece and Turkey?
500
Violent "civil disobedience" in Palestine protesting Israeli rule
What is an intifada?
500
First democratically elected leader of Poland
Who is Lech Walesa?
500
Name of the group that attacked the U.S. on 9/11
What is al-Qaeda?
500
President of South Africa who freed Nelson Mandela from prison
Who is F.W. de Klerk?
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