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An military alliance ratified in July of 1949, which constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states, agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is NATO?
100
This was the youngest president ever elected to presidency, and the only Roman Catholic president to hold office.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
100
This was a political scandal in the 1970‘s that ultimately led to the resignation of President Nixon, and resulted in the indictment and conviction of several Nixon administration officials.
What was the Watergate Scandal?
100
Under who’s presidency, did the Republicans win control of the United States Senate in the 1980 elections?
Who was Ronald Regan?
100
Who were the leaders when the end of the Cold War was declared in December of 1991?
Who is George H.W. Bush, US President and Boris Yeltsin, President of the Russian Federation?
200
The Communist bloc in 1955, during the Cold War was called?
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
They fought unsuccessfully to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and what was this known as?
Who were Cuban Exiles and what was the Bay of Pigs?
200
In a historical event Apollo landed on the moon. What was the name of the first astronaut and in what year?
Who was Neil Alden Armstrong.
200
In 1985, he became the Soviet Premier and part of a new generation of Soviet leaders.
Who was Mickel Gorbachev?
200
During a revolutionary wave sweeping across the Eastern Bloc, the East German government announced on November 9, 1989, that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin.
What was the fall of the Berlin Wall?
300
In 1945, in what two cities in Japan, did the United States conducted two atomic bombings?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
300
This was erected in 1961 due to over 2.6 million East Germans escaping to West Berlin & West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
In 1972, these talks froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM) launchers only after the same number of older intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) and SLBM launchers had been dismantled.
What are the SALT talks (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)?
300
The Regan Gorbachev Treaty of 1987 or the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces Treaty called for what?
What is the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles?
300
This peaceful protest in 1989 sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang, ended atrociously with military force leaving hundreds dead and severely injured.
What was Tiananmen Square Protests?
400
In February of 1945, Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill attended this conference where they planned to divide Germany into 3 sectors?
What is the Yalta Conference?
400
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation between?
Who are the United States, the Soviet Union, and Cuba?
400
As a result of The Watergate Scandal, President Nixon resigned in what year?
What is 1974?
400
This political scandal came to light in November 1986 when senior US figures agreed to facilitate the sale of arms to Iran, to secure the release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan contras.
What was the Iran–Contra affair?
400
On July 1, 1991 Czechoslovak President Vaclav Havel, formally ended the 1955 Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance and so disestablished the ________ after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR.
What is the Warsaw Pack?
500
In 1949 after WWI, a financial aid program was introduced. It’s purpose was to recover Europe’s economy.
What is the Marshal Plan?
500
Also known as the Second Indochina War, this was a military conflict that occurred in Laos, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
What was the Vietnam War?
500
This event marked the end of the Vietnam War on April 30,1975 and the start of a transition period leading to the formal reunification of Vietnam under communist rule.
What was the Fall of Saigon?
500
The U.S. used the CIA to mine the harbor at Managua, Nicaragua, as part of an effort to overthrow the government. The U.S. provided arms and training to former marines of the Somoza dictatorship, creating a movement known as the Contras, which waged a guerilla war against the Sandinistas from safe refuge across the border in Honduras.
What was the Reagan Administration?
500
Gorbachev was awarded this in 1990, for his attempts at reform, his contributions to ending the Cold War, ending the political supremacy of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) and the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
What is the Nobel Peace Prize?