What is the US foreign policy that is aimed at directly preventing Soviet influence and communism from spreading?
Containment Policy
100
This refers to the pooling of peasant lands and labor in an attempt to increase efficiency.
Collectivization
100
What Vietnamese city was named after Ho Chi Minh?
Saigon
100
This refers to Gorbachev's policy of openness that encouraged the people to critically speak about the communist government.
Glasnost
100
Identify the nation-state Saddam Hussein and the rest of Iraq annexed in 1990 at the onset of the Persian Gulf War.
Kuwait
200
What is the defensive military alliance formed by the United States and the Western European countries in 1949?
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO)
200
This refers to Mao's program aimed to speed up China's economic growth and industrialization.
Great Leap Forward
200
Which imperialist power sought to regain control of Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia after the Second World War?
France
200
Identify Gorbachev's policy that allowed the economic structuring of the Soviet Union.
Perestroika
200
The three September 11 attacks happened in three locations namely: New York City, Washington DC and in which American state?
Pennsylvania
300
What is the defensive military alliance that was formed by the USSR along with Eastern European countries in 1955?
Warsaw Pact
300
This refers to the period of debate was going to be allowed in China, a campaign that invited people to criticize and comment on the work of the Communist government
Hundred Flowers Campaign
300
Identify the international peace conference the partitioned Vietnam into North and South Vietnam?
Geneva Accords
300
Who was the first president of the Russian Federation?
Boris Yeltsin
300
Identify the Free Trade Agreement between the US, Canada and Mexico that was signed and ratified in the 1990s.
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
400
What is term Prime Minister Winston Churchill used to refer to the division between Eastern and Western Europe?
Iron Curtain
400
A period in China that aimed to preserve Mao’s power for the rest of his life and ensure Mao’s concept of revolution would again be central to China and last beyond his death.
Cultural Revolution
400
Which incident did the Americans use to justify their participation in the War in Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
400
When did the Berlin Wall fall? (Month and Year)
November 1989
400
Who was the Panamanian President that the US sought to depose during the Invasion of Panama?
Manuel Noriega
500
Identify THREE countries that are part of the Eastern, communist bloc.
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Albania, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, etc.
500
Who is the leader that succeeded Mao Zedong as China's Head of State?
Deng Xiao Ping
500
This refers to Nixon's policy that allowed for the American troops to pull out of South Vietnam while at the same time reinforcing the military strength of the latter.
Vietnamization
500
Identify Yeltsin's program that made a radical economic shift in Russia, from command into free-market economy.
Shock Therapy
500
Identify THREE countries that are part of the G8.
US, Canada, Japan, Russia, Germany, Italy, France and United Kingdom