Cold War
The U.S. strategy during the Cold War to prevent the spread of Communism
What is containment?
This country gained independence from British rule in 1947, leading to the partition with Pakistan.
The main purpose of terrorism is to...
What is cause fear, chaos and instability in an area?
This North American country is famous for tacos, Aztecs, and mariachi bands.
What is Mexico?
This conflict began in 1775 and resulted in independence from Britain.
What is the American Revolution?
The first satellite to be placed into orbit.
What is Sputnik?
This European empire lost most of its African colonies after WWII, including Nigeria and Kenya.
What is the British Empire?
The major reason Arabic nations were angry with the United Nations after WWII.
What is that the UN created a Jewish state called Israel in the region of Palestine.
This large island nation off the southeast coast of Africa is known for its unique biodiversity.
What is Madagascar?
This 1789 uprising overthrew the monarchy of King Louis XVI and ended in Napoleon's rise.
What is the French Revolution?
A wall that separated Germany until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Name an example of Gandhi's campaign of civil disobedience.
Strikes, self-reliance movement, peaceful protests
The deliberate killing of a group of people who belong to a particular racial, political, or cultural group.
What is genocide?
This Eastern European country borders Romania and Ukraine and is one of the poorest in Europe.
What is Moldova?
This 1917 revolution removed the tsar and led to the rise of communism in a large Eurasian country.
What is the Russian Revolution?
The policy or practice of restructuring the economy, actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the USSR.
What is Perestroika?
This former Belgian colony is the second largest country in Africa, behind Algeria.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo?
Revolutions throughout the Middle East that started with the overthrow of the Tunisian government are part of what event?
What is the Arab Spring?
This Southeast Asian country was formerly known as Burma.
What is Myanmar?
This 1979 movement replaced a Western-backed shah with a theocracy.
What is the Iranian Revolution?
The concept that a full-scale use of nuclear weapons would cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and the defender.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction, or M.A.D.?
The leader of the South African Anti-Apartheid movement who was imprisoned in 1964 on charges of terrorism and treason.
Who is Nelson Mandela?
Which country invaded Iran and Kuwait for their oil fields and caused two wars?
What is Iraq?
This African country gained independence from France in 1960 and has Timbuktu as a historic city.
What is Mali?
This 1949 revolution led to the founding of the PRC under Mao Zedong.
What is the Chinese Communist Revolution?