Struggles and Assassinations
President Kennedy was assassinated while visiting this city
What is Dallas?
This president began to pull U.S. troops out of Vietnam in 1969
Who is Richard Nixon?
It was the job of this organization, the Russian Secret Police, to stamp out any opposition to the Soviet government
What is the KGB?
Indira Gandhi convinced this country to help India out with money and exports of grain to feed the hungry in India
What is America?
This leader of the Soviet Union worked with President Ronald Reagan to end the Cold War
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This great civil rights leader admired the ideas of Gandhi
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
This president invited the president of Egypt and the prime minister of Israel to meet with him and discuss peace
Who is Jimmy Carter?
The 1972 Summer Olympics were held in this city
What is Munich?
East Pakistan changed its name to this
What is Bangladesh?
Ronald Reagan, the American president who helped end the Cold War, had this strange nickname
What is the Gipper?
Most people believe that this man shot President John F. Kennedy
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
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?
During the Olympics, terrorists broke into the rooms where this country's team slept, killing two people and taking nine hostage
What is Israel?
Ruhollah Khomeini was known as this, an Islamic religious leader
What is an ayatollah?
Three Mile Island was a nuclear power plant in this U.S. state
What is Pennsylvania?
The segregation laws in the American South were given this nickname
What are Jim Crow laws?
The capital city of the southern part of Vietnam was changed from this name to Ho Chi Minh City in 1975
What is Saigon?
When some Soviets managed to escape and get to Western Europe or the United States, they were known as these
What are defectors?
The Sikhs wanted to control their own part of India, an area called by this name
What is Punjab?
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?
This act said that restaurants and other establishments could no longer discriminate on the basis of skin color
What is the Civil Rights Act?
What is the Viet Cong?
Afghans who fought against the rebel government called themselves "righteous warriors" or these
What are Mujaheddin?
The last shah of Iran
Who is Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi?
In 1955, this town became the first to be powered entirely by nuclear power
What is Arco, Idaho?