Struggles and Assassinations
Two Short Wars and One Long One
Two Ways of Fighting
The 1980s in the East and the Mideast
The 1980s in the USSR
100

President Kennedy was assassinated while visiting this city

What is Dallas?

100

This president began to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam in 1969

Who is Richard Nixon?

100

It was the job of this organization, the Russian Secret Police, to stamp out any opposition to the Soviet government

What is the KGB?

100

Indira Gandhi convinced this country to help India out with money and exports of grain to feed the hungry in India

What is America?

100

This leader of the Soviet Union worked with President Ronald Reagan to end the Cold War

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

200

This great civil rights leader admired the ideas of Gandhi

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?

200

This president invited the president of Egypt and the prime minister of Israel to meet with him and discuss peace

Who is Jimmy Carter?

200

The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in this city

What is Munich?

200

East Pakistan changed its name to this

What is Bangladesh?

200

Ronald Reagan, the American president who helped end the Cold War, had this strange nickname

What is the Gipper?

300

Most people believe that this man shot President John F. Kennedy

Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?

300

The president of Egypt and prime minister of Israel were awarded this prize for their work at the peace talks

What is the Nobel Peace Prize?

300

During the Olympics, terrorists broke into the rooms where this country's team slept, killing two people and taking nine hostage

What is Israel?

300

Ruhollah Khomeini was known as this, an Islamic religious leader

What is an ayatollah?

300

Three Mile Island was a nuclear power plant in this U.S. state

What is Pennsylvania?

400

The segregation laws in the American South were given this nickname

What are Jim Crow laws?

400

The capital city of the southern part of Vietnam was changed from this name to Ho Chi Minh City in 1975

What is Saigon?

400

When some Soviets managed to escape and get to Western Europe or the United States, they were known as these

What are defectors?

400

The Sikhs wanted to control their own part of India, an area called by this name

What is Punjab?

400

This president gave a speech to the United Nations called "Atoms for Peace" to assure people that nuclear power could be used for good

Who is Dwight Eisenhower?

500

This act said that restaurants and other establishments could no longer discriminate on the basis of skin color

What is the Civil Rights Act?

500
Members of Ho Chi Minh's revolutionary group were known by this name in the southern part of Vietnam

What is the Viet Cong?

500

Afghans who fought against the rebel government called themselves "righteous warriors" or these

What are Mujaheddin?

500

The last shah of Iran

Who is Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi?

500

In 1955, this town became the first to be powered entirely by nuclear power

What is Arco, Idaho?

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