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FINAL JEOPARDY

This 1955 meeting in Indonesia brought together 29 newly independent African and Asian nations to promote Afro-Asian economic and cultural cooperation and to oppose colonialism.

Bandung Conference

100

Economic assistance provided to Europe from the US after WWII.

Marshall Plan

100

13 Day standoff between the US and USSR over soviet missiles in a Caribbean nation.

Cuban Missile Crisis

100

Event that caused the creation of Hindu-India and Muslim-Pakistan.

Partition of India

100

Indian lawyer who would become a peaceful activist against British rule of India.

Mohandas Gandhi

200

Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.

Iron Curtain

200

Plan to fly supplies into a German city blockaded by Stalin.

 Berlin Airlift

200

Nation created after WWII to create a safe haven for Jews around the world.

Israel

200

American Civil Rights leader promoting peaceful protests against segregation laws.

Martin Luther King Jr.

300

Multi-Nation organization established after WWII to prevent wars, settle disputes and assist nations in need.

United Nation (UN)

300

The Korean War, Vietnam War, and Soviet-Afghan War are all examples of _____________

Proxy Wars

300

This Sub-Saharan African nation, led by Kwame Nkrumah, is widely considered to be the first African nation to gain independence in the 20th century.

Ghana

300

First Black president of South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

400

These were the two alliances that formed during the Cold War.

NATO & Warsaw Pact

400

The Shah of Iran's attempt at modernizing and westernizing the nation. Included land-reform, rapid urbanization, among other things.

White Revolution

400

Egyptian leader that would gain control of the Suez Canal

Gamal Abdul Nasser

400

South African laws that severely segregated Black and White South Africans. 

Apartheid

500

Economic policy in communist China that sought to quickly industrialize the nation and collectivize agriculture.

Great Leap Forward

500

U.S. strategy early in the Cold War that sought to stop the spread of communism

Containment

(Truman Doctrine)

500

After leading the movement for independence from Belgium, he became the first Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960.

Patrice Lumumba

500

This person was the leader of the North Vietnamese as they resisted French occupation. 

Ho Chi Minh