Assassination
In January of 2011 thousands of Egyptians gathered in Cairo in a peaceful protest and demanded what?
The resignation of their president
Why was the revolution in Czechoslovakia called the Velvet Revolution?
because is was bloodless
At the beginning of the Persian Gulf War there was Operation Desert Storm which was what?
A continuous air assault on targets in Iraq and Kuwait
Who became prime minister of Russia after Yeltsin?
The third Yugoslavia was made up of what three provinces?
Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo
Who were the people behind the assassination of president Sadat?
Muslim Brotherhood
DD - Nadia Comaneci won three gold medals in the 1976 Olympics for Romania in what event?
Gymnastics
3.5 million
The formal resignation of Gorbachev was on what date?
Christmas day 1991
Investigations into the most notorious war crimes after the armed conflicts in Kosevo in 1998-1999 are about what?
The theft of human organs
How was president Sadat killed?
While watching a parade by 37 bullets
When the Berlin Wall came down what other invisible thing felt like it was over?
The Cold War
What did Hussein do not long after becoming the president of Iraq?
He began to viciously purge those who threatened him
During the August Coup when Gorbechev was held hostage who stepped in to help free him?
Boris Yeltsin
The sprawling atrocity called the Siege of Sarajevo killed how many civilians?
10,000
After reaching a peach agreement with Israel in the Camp David Accord Sadat received what?
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978
How was travel between West Berlin and East Berlin supposed to go and how did it actually go?
Travel visas and diplomacy / mass exodus
How was Hussein's rise to power similar to several other harsh leaders we have learned about this year?
He became the right hand man to the man in power and stepped right in when that man was no longer able to.
DD - who did the Russian people elect to be their first president?
Boris Yeltsin
Did the nation of Yugoslavia prove that since we reached the year 2000 we have finally figured out how to settle disputes without atrocities?
no
The Six-Day-War was fought by who against Egypt and Syria?
Israel
What was the famous Checkpoint on the Berlin wall that was most depicted in the movies as the place where spies smuggled their secrets back and forth?
Checkpoint Charlie
What was his father or step father like?
Abandon or died, was very abusive
How many republics were in the Soviet Union?
15
Tito's communism in Yugoslavia was what kind of version of Stalin's communism?
"light"
Anwar Sadat wanted to set Egypt free from what country?
What did the two policies "glasnost and perestroika" represent?
openness and restructuring
How old was Saddam when he first went to school?
10
What is one of the amazing new things that happened in 1989 and 1990 in the new more free Soviet Union?
A news network CNN was allowed to broadcast and a McDonalds opened
How many religious groups make up Yugoslavia? Bonus 100 each to name them
Three: Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholic, Sunni Muslim
Anwar Sadat was president of what country?
Egypt
What famous four words did Ronald Reagan say in a speech in Berlin aimed at Mikhail Gorbachev?
"Tear down this wall"
Saddam Hussein felt that he was the modern day equivalent of who from older times?
Nebuchadnezzar II
What was the nuclear disaster that took place in Ukraine in 1986?
Chernobyl
How many times has Yugoslavia appeared and disappeared on the map?
Three times