International Groups
What group was created after WW2 with the goal of keeping global peace?
United Nations
What two superpowers 'fought' in the Cold War?
USSR and USA
Who is the current president of Russia?
Putin
This place was home to the Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba
What organization (in the US) intervened in multiple Latin American countries in the 1950s-1970s?
CIA
What group did the UK leave in 2016 in an event known as Brexit?
European Union
What country did Russia invade in 2022?
Ukraine
Who is the current President of Ukraine?
Zelensky
What area of land did Russia take from Ukraine in 2014?
Crimean Peninsula
What group was created to combat Communism in 1949?
NATO
What group was led by the USSR to combat NATO?
Warsaw Pact
What international conflict was seen as the geopolitical 'cork' that kept Yugoslavia stable for the time being?
What leader died, kickstarting the Yugoslav Wars?
Josep Broz Tito
What city did the USSR build a wall around to prevent people from leaving?
Berlin
What international conflict weakened Euoprean powers, forcing them to decolonize?
WW2
What two groups intervened in the Yugoslav Wars?
NATO and UN
Daily Double! What TWO Proxy Wars did the USA get involved in between the 1950s and 1970s?
Vietnam and Korean War
Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Fidel Castro
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Failed US sponsored CIA attempted overthrow of the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro
How did the Korean War and Vietnam War end?
Vietnam ended with communism winning, Korean war ended with an Armistice at the DMZ
What does Article 5 say in NATO?
"An attack against one is an attack against all"
The Yugoslav Wars got worse due to increasing Ethno-________
Ethno-Nationalism
What US president recently started talks about leaving NATO?
Donald Trump
During the Yugoslav Wars, one country experienced a genocide, what was that country called?
Bosnia and Herzegovina
What Proxy War was called the 'Tug of War' conflict because it kept going back and forth?
Korean War