WWI/WWII
The treaty that placed blame and heavy reparations on Germany after World War I.
What is the Treaty of Versailles settlement?
The military operation that airlifted supplies into West Berlin during the Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The country that gained independence in 1947 after British colonial rule ended through partition.
What is India?
The Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The partition of this state led to the creation of a new Jewish homeland.
What is Palestine?
The policy of giving in to demands to avoid conflict, famously linked to pre-WWII Europe.
What is appeasement?
The policy of providing aid to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
The ideology advocating Jewish self-rule and the creation of a Jewish homeland.
What is Zionism?
The ideology advocating for state ownership of resources and classless society.
What is communism?
The leader who introduced reforms like glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The economic crisis beginning in 1929 that led to global unemployment and instability.
What is the Great Depression?
The Cuban leader who embraced Soviet influence during the Cold War.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The process in which African nations gained independence from European powers after World War II.
What is self-determination?
The economic system based on private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
The peaceful protest method associated with Mohandas Gandhi.
What is civil disobedience?
The political ideology characterized by authoritarian nationalism, often associated with Hitler and Mussolini.
What is fascism?
At a time, the US and USSR were actually on the same page when oil prices skyrocketed as a result of this 1956 conflict.
What is the Suez War?
The South African system of racial segregation that ended in the early 1990s.
What is apartheid?
The Chinese leader responsible for the Great Leap Forward.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The dismantling of the symbolic barrier separating East and West Berlin in 1989.
What is the Tearing Down of the Berlin Wall?
An agreement to stop fighting.
What is armistice?
This proxy war boiled down to a conflict of nationalism vs imperialism.
What is the Vietnam War?
The leader who helped end apartheid and became South Africa’s first Black president.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Who is Adam Smith?
The leader of Ghana who helped gain sovereignty from British Imperial rule.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?