Smaller than the first atomic bombs, this weapon was 2,500 times more powerful and destructive.
What is the H-bomb?
100
Institution established to oversee currency exchange rates and provide emergency loans to countries in severe debt.
What is the International Monetary Fund?
100
The guiding influence behind the Red Guards and the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution.
What is "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong?"
100
This nuclear deterrence theory states that as long as both the US and the USSR maintain equilibrium in the nuclear arms race neither side will actually use the weapons it built.
What is MAD?
100
The nearly year-long resupplying of West Berlin in order to avoid a direct military engagement with Stalin who had closed all surface traffic from West Germany to force a West Berlin capitulation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
200
The space-based defensive weapon system often referred to as “Star Wars.”
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
200
This “cradle to grave” British healthcare program passed in 1948 as a compromise between capitalism and communism.
What is the National Health Service Act?
200
Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s detailed story of the horrors of the gulag.
What is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich?"
200
JFK’s special advisors from the National Security Council who helped analyze and respond to the missile crisis in Cuba.
What is EXCOMM?
200
A catastrophic 1986 nuclear power plant meltdown in Ukraine.
What is Chernobyl?
300
These were first tested by the Soviets in May 1957 and were seen as a direct threat to the United States.
What are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles?
300
The July 1944 conference that met in New Hampshire to figure out how to stabilize the world financial system and prevent a repeat of the Great Depression.
What is the Bretton Woods system?
300
This 1947 document spelled out a two-state solution for the Palestine question.
What is the "UN Partition Plan for Palestine?"
300
Moscow controlled Council of Mutual Assistance.
What is COMECON?
300
Mao’s 1958 directive to engage the entire Chinese population in maximizing production of steel, electricity, and coal.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
400
Reagan initiated nuclear weapon delivery system featuring airplanes that cost $200 per aircraft.
What is the B-1 Bomber?
400
Gorbachev’s restructuring of the economy to allow more free enterprise and private ownership in the Soviet system.
What is perestroika?
400
Written by George Kennan early 1946 this document gave a clear rationale for the containment policy.
What is "The Long Telegram?"
400
Envisioned as a “Galactic Network” in which all information could be shared around the world through computers that could “talk” with each other.
What is ARPANET?
400
The start of the thaw in US/PRC relations that began at the 1971 World Table Tennis Championship in Japan.
What is “ping-pong” diplomacy?
500
MIRVs stands for this.
What are Multiple Independently Targeted Reentry Vehicles?
500
This 1950 legislation ended all private land ownership in the PRC.
What is the Agrarian Reform Law?
500
This 1945 document provides the legal basis for conducting trials against those accused of crimes against humanity.
What is "The London Charter of the International Military Tribunal?"
500
This was an extended string of radar units in the arctic regions of the US, Canada, and Greenland that was established to give advance warning of any Soviet nuclear attack.
What is the DEW line?
500
A series of CIA funded small-scale secret sabotage and assassination attempts against Fidel Castro.