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100
This was the alliance of Russia, France, and England
What is Triple Entente
100
This Axis power nation would invade Poland starting WW II in Europe
What is Germany
100
This country would emerge WWII as the World's Superpower producing 50% of the world's products because it was physically untouched from WW II
What is the United States
100
This organization would help bring independence to India
What is the INC (Indian National Congress)
100
He took over control of North Korea in 2012
Who is Kim Jong Il
200
This front of the war was characterized by trench warfare
What is the Western Front
200
This Axis Power would invade Ethiopia
What is Italy
200
It is estimated that over 1 million people were killed under his Great Purges of the Communist Party between 1936-1938
Who is Joseph Stalin
200
Nelson Mandela helped unite South Africa's white and black population through his support of what type of team in South Africa
What is rugby
200
Islamic fundamentalist groups have used terrorism, but have also tried to gain influence by getting members into power through these democratic processes
What are elections
300
This nation was originally aligned with the Triple Alliance but would side with the Triple Entente shortly after the war began
What is Italy
300
This Axis Power weakened the European control over Asia with its conquests in WW II
What is Japan
300
Rocky Balboa would defeat this fictional Soviet Boxer in Rocky IV
Who is Ivan Drago
300
This revolution during the 1950's saw an increase in food production because of new advances in fertilizers and pesticides
What is the Green Revolution
400
The United States Senate did not ratify this which led to the US not joining, which ultimately led to its impotence and failure
What is League of Nations
400
This man would gain popularity in China during WW II because his communist army helped fight Japanese conquest
What is Mao Zedong
400
In the 1980s Mikhail Gorbachev coined this term which means "openess" as a slogan for increased government transparency.
What is Glasnost
400
America and the wests imperial influence in this Middle Eastern nation led to intense backlash and a Islamic Revolution in 1979 that saw the rise of the Shia cleric Ayatollah Khomeini
What is Iran
400
While western environmentalists were concerned with pollution, environmentalists in third world nation nations were more concerned with securing enough of this
What is food
500
Woodrow Wilson's ____ Points was a statement of this many principles for peace that were to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I.
What is 14 (points)
500
Americans used this strategy of selectively conquering strategic Japanese strongholds in the Pacific to cut off Japanese resources
What is island hopping
500
Between 1958 and 1962 approximately 30 million Chinese died because of Mao Zedong's implementation of this, which was an attempt to modernize China from an agrarian society to a industrialized one by encouraging every person in China to build a backyard furnace to produce steel
What is Great Leap Forward
500
He was a violent anti-imperialist Marxist who attempted to bring economic equality to Latin America. He would be killed in Bolivia
Who is Che Guevara
500
Osama Bin Laden declared war on the US because of their military presence here
What is Saudi Arabia
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