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100
U.S. program of economic aid to European nations to help them rebuild after WWII – Much of Western Europe in ruins.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
A leader of the ANC (African National Congress) who was imprisoned for protesting against the white minority's power being imposed on South Africa
Who was Nelson Mandela?
100
Large collectivized farms created by Mao
What are communes?
100
The state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990
What is the Cold War?
100
Name the 43rd, 44th, and 45th Presidents of the United States in that order
George Bush, Barack Obama, and Donald Trump
200
International organization was founded in 1945 to promote world peace and cooperation, replacing the League of Nations
What is the United Nations?
200
The latitudinal line that divided North and South Korea at approximatly the midpoint of the peninsula
What is the 38th Parallel?
200
The youths who led Mao's rule that wore red arm bands, carried Mao’s book, terrorized Chinese citizens, and determined who went to camps
What is the red guard?
200
The thing that separated communist Eastern Germany (Soviets) from Western Germany until 1989 at the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
A sensation (affair) that enveloped the presidency of Bill Clinton in 1998–99, leading to his impeachment by the U.S. House of Representatives and acquittal by the Senate.
What is the Lewinsky Scandal?
300
1947 U.S. policy of providing economic and military aid to any country threatened by communism or totalitarian ideology
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The president of Russia since 2000, who served in the KGB, the secret police for the former Soviet Union, then entered politics after the collapse of communism.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
300
The name of the radical sociopolitical movement in China 1966-71, led by Mao Zedong and characterized by military rule, terrorism, purges, restructuring of the educational system, etc. At least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death in China.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
The term coined by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line dividing Communist countries in the Soviet bloc from countries in Western Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
The US President, 1981-1989, who led a conservative movement against détente with the Soviet Union and the growth of the federal government; some people credit him with America's victory in the Cold War
Who was Ronald Reagan?
400
What does SALT stand for?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talk
400
The name for a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
What is the Vietcong?
400
Thriving business center and British colony of the southeastern coast of China did Great Britain hand back over to China on July 1, 1997
What is Hong Kong?
400
A nuclear power plant in Ukraine failed violently during a scheduled test of the turbine system. 31 People were killed immediately and 4,000 more later due to radiation.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
400
The US President during part of the cold war and especially during the superpower rivalry and the Cuban missile crisis. He was the president who went on tv and told the public about the crisis and allowed the leader of the Soviet Union to withdraw their missiles.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
500
A slowdown in a nation's economy.
What is a recession?
500
His three-term presidency led to the reshaping of the Argentine economy along with restrictions on civil liberties, and whose wife used her position as first lady to fight for women's suffrage and improving the lives of the poor, and became a legendary figure in Argentine politics.
Who is Juan Peron?
500
What happened at Tiananmen Square, China in 1989?
University students started a protest for democracy in the Beijing Square and were massacred.
500
The first president of the Soviet Union, serving from 1990 to 1991 and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace for his leadership role in ending the Cold War and promoting peaceful international relations.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
A White House political scandal, growing out of a break-in at the Democratic Party headquarters at an apartment-office complex in Washington, D.C., and, after congressional hearings, culminating in the resignation of President Nixon in 1974.
What is the Watergate Scandal?
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