The amount of time that it takes to communicate has been greatly reduced due to technology (i.e. email, social media, etc.)
200
Which Caribbean country fell to communism? It was led by Fidel Castro.
Cuba
200
How are the Berlin Blockade and the Berlin Airlift related?
The USSR blockaded Berlin and the USA dropped supplies with the airlift.
200
Which organization wants to create an independent state of Palestine in Israel? They are a nationalist group and a terrorist group.
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
200
Which organization raised oil prices to the USA due to the USA supporting Israel after the Yom Kippur War? It represents globalism.
OPEC
200
What was the USA trying to spread in Afghanistan and Iraq following 9/11?
Democracy
300
The USA and its allies during the Cold War. The goal was to combat the spread of communism.
NATO
300
What is glasnost?
The USSR providing freedoms (i.e. speech, press, etc.)
300
What is the name of the nationalist movement led by Gandhi?
Swadeshi
300
What is Malthusianism?
Related to issues of population growth.
300
Which organization wrote the Declaration of Human Rights?
The United Nations (UN)
400
Which two wars, fought in Asia, were related to the domino theory?
Korean War and Vietnam War
400
What is perestroika?
The USSR reforming its government and economy.
400
This is a terrorist/nationalist group from Sri Lanka.
Tamil Tigers
400
Which organization features an economic and political alliance between many countries in Europe? They share the same currency (Euro).
European Union
400
What does the IRA want? What type of group is it?
Reunite Ireland and break free from the UK; Nationalist/Terrorist
500
Which country staged on unsuccessful rebellion against the USSR in 1956?
Hungary
500
What was the policy of nonalignment?
Some developing countries refused to join the USA or the USSR so that they could get resources from both.
500
This rebellion featured a majority Muslim population trying to break away from the USSR. It failed.
Chechen Rebellion
500
Provide three Islamic terrorist groups.
Hamas, Hezbollah, PLO, ISIS, Al-Qaeda, etc.
500
The movement in the Middle East and North Africa from 2010 to 2013 in which countries started to experience revolutions related to oppression is known as the: