WWI
WWI (2)
WWII
Cold War
Africa/ Middle East
100
What is Disarmament
The reduction of armed forces and weapons
100
DMZ
What is a Demilitarized Zone
100
Germany, Italy, and Japan
Who are the Axis Powers
100
What is Domino Theory?
The belief that one communist victory would lead to many other
100
Insurgents
People who use guerrilla attacks and suicide bombings to target foreigners, troops, and citizens
200
What are Reparations
Compensation for war damages
200
A cease fire
What is an Armistice
200
"Lightning War"
What is Blitzkrieg
200
Who is Nikita Khrushchev
The Soviet Leader after Stalin
200
Saddam Hussein
This person seized power in Iraq and ruled as dictator until 2003
300
What is Neutrality
The policy of taking neither side in a conflict
300
What are Kamikazes
Japanese pilots who crashed into Allied ships
300
Concentration Camps
A place which housed Jews and others which Germany considered to be unfit for their society
300
What are Superpowers
Nations that are stronger than other powerful nations
300
Weapons of Mass Destruction
What are WMDs
400
What is Militarism
Glorification of the military
400
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The two bombs dropped on Japan to end WWII were dropped on
400
Opposition to all war
What is Pacifism
400
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
Brought the world to the brink of nuclear war in 1962
400
Jerusalem
What is the "Holy Land" to Christians, Jews, and Muslims
500
What is Modern Warfare
The use of machine guns, artillery shells, and poison gas to fight a conflict
500
Trench warfare
A type of combat in which fighting is done from a series of trenches
500
Giving in to an aggressor's demands to maintain peace
What is Appeasement
500
What is the Space Race
The competition among countries through the use of launching satellites and rockets into space
500
Nelson Mandela
Imprisoned for nearly 27 years in South Africa
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