Name of the political trade union in Poland led by Lech Walesa.
What is Solidarity?
100
Two policies developed by Gorbachov that mean market reform and openness.
What are Perestroika and Glasnost?
100
Name of the South African anti-apartheid activist who was released from prison after 27 years in 1993.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
100
The treaty that lowered tariffs among Canada, Mexico and the US that increased trade despite limiting available job opportunities.
What is NAFTA?
200
Location of the ground-breaking agreement between Sadat and Begin.
What is Camp David?
200
Name of the popular film that was also used to describe Reagan’s new weapon system.
What is Star Wars?
200
The important event of 1989 that brought about an end to the Cold War.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
200
US humanitarian intervention in Somalia that became the subject of the film Black Hawk Down.
What is Operation Restore Hope?
200
Name of the Secretary of Defense who was forced out of office due to his handling of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
Who is Donald Rumsfeld?
300
Name of the religious leader who seized power in Iran in 1979.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
300
Phrase used by Reagan to describe the Soviet Union.
What is “The evil empire”?
300
Name of the leader who’s nation invaded Kuwait in order to access oil?
Who is Iraqi Dictator Saddam Hussein?
300
Locations of the 1998 bombings of two US Embassies that led to the deaths of over 200 people.
What are the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania?
300
Name of the cabinet department that was created in 2003 by consolidating over 100 smaller governmental entities.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
400
This event was traumatic for the US and led to Carter’s loss in the 1980 election.
What was the Iran Hostage Crisis?
400
Name of the forces fighting for control of Nicaragua.
Who are the Contras and Sandinistas?
400
Name of the New York born Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Who is Colin Powell?
400
Conflict that led to the US/ NATO intervention in 1994-1995, ending in the Dayton Accords in 1995.
What is the War in Bosnia Herzegovina?
400
The date of the event that the Bush administration used to initiate an agency that had the power "to eavesdrop on telephone and e-mail communications between the United States and people overseas without a warrant".
What is 9/11?
500
Racist policy in South Africa criticized by US Ambassador Andrew Young.
What is apartheid?
500
Name of the scandal involving Reagan where weapons were sold illegally to Iran in order to fund the Contras in Nicaragua.
What is the Iran Contra affair?
500
The sport, position and university of Bush Sr.
What is left-handed first baseman baseball player at Yale.
500
The newest European state that was part of Slobodan Milosevic’s Yugoslavia that broke away in 1999 and was defended by the US and NATO
What is Kosovo?
500
The assumed seat of Al-Qaeda at the time of the terrorist attacks of 9/11/01.