During the space race, he was the first man to step foot upon the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
What does Mahatma mean?
What is great soul
100
The name of the Jewish homeland.
What is Israel?
100
The term given to the legal separation of blacks and whites in South Africa.
What is apartheid?
200
The term, created by Winston Churchill, for the separation of ideas, beliefs and geographic borders of Europe. The Soviet counties being on the East and the democratic nations on the West.
What is the Iron Curtain
200
This was the first human made object to be sent into orbit.
What is the Sputnik satellite?
200
The term given to the movie industry of India
What is Bollywood?
200
The mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks
Who is Osama bin Laden?
200
The first African nation to gain freedom for their European colonial controllers.
What is Ghana?
300
The group of democratic nations who signed a pact, promising to defend each other if attacked by the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
300
This was the first armed conflict of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
300
A civil war in India led to the division of the country. The Muslims separated and formed this new nation.
What is Pakistan?
300
The religious leaders of Iran follow strict Muslim rules called this.
What is Sharia Law
300
People who leave their homes to escape from war, death, suffering, starvation or other difficulties.
Who are refugees?
400
The European city that was physically divided with a wall during the cold war.
What is Berlin?
400
The deployment or locations of nuclear bombs close to their border angered both the US and the Soviets. Which countries housed the nuclear bombs near their enemy's border?
What is Turkey and Cuba?
400
Another term for Gandi's message of nonviolent refusal to follow the government.
What is civil disobedience?
400
These three nations signed the Camp David Accords in 1979, bringing temporary peace in the Middle East.
What are the USA, Israel and Egypt?
400
The name of the African group created to help support African independence and cooperation.
What is the Organization of African Unity (OAU) or the African Union (AU)?
500
Name the three leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who are Kennedy, Castro and Khrushchev?
500
Neil Armstrong's first words after stepping on the moon.
What is "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"
500
He was the first prime minister of India.
Who is Jawaharlal Nehru?
500
The UN divided this country, giving half to the Jews and leaving the other half to the native Muslims
What is Palestine?
500
The leader of the independence movement in Africa, the first president of Ghana and the founder of the AU/OAU.