The Formation of Israel(Team 3)
The name given to the original land of Canaan
What is Palestine?
The year the Soviets launched the Sputnik 1
What was 1957?
The date when up to a million East Berliners made their way to the Berlin wall attempting to cross.
What was November 9, 1989?
Gorbechev refused to do this before being put under house arrest?
What was to declare a state of emergency?
Russian prime minister who later became president of Russia in 1999.
Who was Vladimir Putin?
The date of the Formation of Israel
What is May 14, 1948?
Traveled in the first manmade satellite to orbit earth
Who was Yuri A. Gagarin?
The last Soviet state to declare its independence
What was Albania?
The length of time the USSR existed?
What was 69 years?
The Russian leader whose ideas and policies began to break down Soviet communism?
Who was Mikhail Gorbechev?
The year there were 500,000 Jews living in Palestine
What was 1939?
The length of time it took for Yuri to make one trip around the earth.
What was 108 minutes?
Albanians stayed under this Communist leader until 1992
Who was Ramiz Alia?
Gorbechev's old rival died of this
What was heart failure?
A political movement aimed at returning Jews to their homeland
What was Zionism?
The landmark that Jews and Muslims still fight over to this day
What is the Temple Mount?
The percentage of fuel left when the LM was trying to land on the moon
What was 5%?
The date when East and West Germany were reunited
What was October 3, 1990?
Gorbechev's old rival tried to overthrow the Parliament in order to do this
What was to rewrite the Constitution?
The practice of making unfounded accusations with little to no evidence of guilt was called this
What is "McCarthyism"?
The number of times the leadership of Palestine changed after the return of the Jewish exiles from Persia.
What was 11.
Alexander the Great, Seleucid dynasty, Hasmoneans, Romans, Bar-Kokhba, Romans, Byzantine empire, Muslim Arabs, Ottoman Turks, Great Britain, Jewish state established.
The date when NASA put Alan B. Shepard safely into space and brought him back.
What was May 5, 1961?
The US President who thought the USSR was an "evil empire"
Who was Ronald Regan?
Where did the Russian people protest the August coup?
lebenstraum
What was "living space"?