The Hot Cold War
Genocide/Ooof
Revolution, Decolonization and Democracy
USSR
All of World History
100
These 2 wars were not fought directly between the USSR and the USA but were proxy wars.
What are the Korean and Vietnam wars?
100
This event was the reason for the create of the word genocide.
What is the Holocaust?
100
Define Democracy!
A system of government where leaders or decisions are selected via voting in free and fair elections.
100
This is the Ideology of the USSR
Communism
100
That Guy.
Ok but what he do?
200
These are the 2 alliances that divided Europe and created the Iron Curtain of influences.
The Warsaw pact and NATO.
200
Haha tricked you, current events question! What is the name of the people group in China being put in "re-education camps?" Some calling it a genocide.
The Uyghurs, a Muslim minority in Western china
200
This the Year referred to as "The Year of Africa," when many African colonies declared/achieved independence, especially from France.
1960
200
This was the Leader of the USSR during WW2, who allied with the USA and Britain during the war, but quickly became enemies after the war.
Joseph Stalin
200
This ideology is sometimes good, unifying people against oppression, and sometimes quite bad, unifying people to do oppression, but always includes creating a unified identity around a people's shared history and culture.
NATIONALISM
300
This was the theory that if one nation fell to communism all in the region would soon follow.
What is Domino Theory?
300
This country continued a system of segregation, called Apartheid until 1994. Elon Musks father made the families money through in emerald mines here.
What is South Africa?
300
This is the concept that event after direct imperial rule is over, many imperial powers continue to ensure that the politics and economics continue to benefit them, without interest for the people who actually live there.
What is Neo-Colonialism?
300
What does USSR stand for: I'm going to be mean, I want exact!
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
300
This south American lead many counties rebellion against the European imperial powers, then ruled as a dictator and president.
Simon Bolivar!
400
This was the major achievement of the USSR which scared many Americans, lead to increased funding in the sciences, and "Kicked of the Space Race"
The USSR's launch of Sputnik.
400
In Nicaragua the USA initially gave aid to the Sandinistas and then the Anti-communists who fought them, called...
The Contras.
400
If your map/globe has a west and an east Germany you know that it was made before this Date.
What is October 1990?
400
This former member of the KGB won the 2000 presidential election in Russia and used violence and propaganda to silence rebels and critics. Some argue that he seeks to reassert the USSRs sphere of influence.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
400
These were the 2 South American empires at the time of Spains conquests in the 1600s
The Inca in Peru and the Aztecs in Mexico
500
These rebels fought off the soviet invasion of Afghanistan, being funded in part by the United States.
Who is the Taliban/Mujahideen?
500
This horrific genocide happened in Europe in the early 1990s and the UN mostly ignored it. It also led to the breaking up of Yugoslavia.
What is the Bosnian Genocide? For context Bosnia held the Olympics in 1984, just 7 years before a GENOCIDE in the country.
500
This event in 1989 was a protest for democracy in China, which was violently shut down. Like really violently.
What is the Tiananmen Square massacre making for a kind of wild coincidence with Taylor Swift...
500
The last leader of the USSR, who famously appeared in a Pizza Hut advertisement, but to the disappointment of communists who remained in Russia.
Mikhail Gorbachev
500
Perhaps the most iconic example of an Absolute Monarch
Louis the XIV (I'll give you Louis of France/The Sun King)