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According to former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, this invisible barrier has "descended across the continent (Europe)"


What is the Iron Curtain?



100

He led the Chinese Communist Revolution and ruled China until his death in 1967

Who is Mao Zedong?

100

The "Forgotten War"

What is Korean War?

100

Leader of India's independence movement from the British.

Who is Gandhi?

100

The USSR led a 10 year war against this Middle Eastern country.

What is Afghanistan?

200

The idea of keeping communism within the borders of USSR and not spreading throughout the world, especially South East Asia.

What is containment?

200

These 2 men were the leaders of the Cuban Revolution.

Who are Fidel Castro and Che Guevara?

200

This "war" began in 1954 though most think if it as being a "war" in the late 1960 through the early 1970s.

What is Vietnam War?

200

Leader of the anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa.

Who is Nelson Mandela?

200

Gandhi and eventually Martin Luther King, Jr. believed in this idea.

What is civil disobedience?

300

This is the term for rapid increase of nuclear weapons not only in numbers but in strength.

What is Nuclear Proliferation?

300

The revolution includes Mao's Little Red Book.

What is the Cultural Revolution?

300

He was the leader of North Vietnam who was open to being communist or democratic.  Communism won when the USSR and China helped his cause.

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

300

This barrier was put up in 1961 and split the capital of Germany into 3 democractic ruled sectors in the West and 1 communist sector in the East.

What is the Berlin Wall?

300

This alliance group's goal is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political and military means

What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?

400

This event is when USSR cut off US, Britain and France from access to their sectors of Berlin.

What is the Berlin Blockade?

400

This event in China was an attempt to bring China from an agricultural to an industrial country and ended up causing a widespread famine.

What is the Great Leap Forward?

400

The name for the region of Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, and Cambodia before they gained independence from the French.

What is French Indochina?

400
After WWII and the Nuremberg Trials, Eleanor Roosevelt and the United Nations published this document.

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

400

This chemical warfare used during the Vietnam War to burn down the trees in the jungle went by this colorful name.

What is Agent Orange?

500

This time piece doesn't actually tell time but the metaphoric time until the world ends.

What is the Doomsday Clock?

500

This leader of the USSR became allies with Cuba and ended up causing world tensions in the 1960s.

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

500

This is where an event is staged in order to achieve a specific political goal, typically to go to war or invade an area.

What is a false flag?

500

These were laws intended to control the movements of the Black South Africans during Apartheid.

What are pass laws?

500

He was the leader of Chile who committed human rights violations.

Who is Augusto Pinochet>