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Geography
100
This was created in 1945 after the failed League of Nations, and its goal is to encourage peace and prevent war.
United Nations
100
This group was considered a terrorist organization until 1991 and fights to create an independent state of Palestine in Israel.
PLO
100
This nuclear power plant exploded in 1986 in Ukraine, releasing radioactive particles into the atmosphere
Chernobyl
100
Leader of Communist China throughout the Cold War
Mao Zedong
100
This country had control over Vietnam until 1954
France
200
India was split into these other two countries following independence from Great Britain
Pakistan and Bangladesh
200
Detenté were efforts taken by what U.S. president to ease Cold War tensions with the Soviet Union
Richard Nixon
200
The term for the "restructuring" of the Soviet Union under Mikhail Gorbachev.
Perestroika
200
This man fought for Indian independence from Great Britain in 1947
Gandhi
200
This country was created by the UN in 1947 for Jews and Arabs to share
Israel
300
This term mean apartness and attempted to segregate Whites and non-Whites in South Africa
Apartheid
300
This nuclear power plant exploded in Ukraine in 1986 releasing large amounts of radioactive particles into the atmosphere.
Chernobyl
300
Year Soviet Union fell
1991
300
This country was the first to send a person and satellite to space
USSR
400
This was the first shooting war of the Cold War and the t.v. show M*A*S*H was inspired by this war
Korean War
400
This series of offensive battles in Vietnam weakened the U.S. support in Vietnam
TET offensive
400
Tiananmen Square was a pro-democracy protest in what country that ended in anywhere from 300-10,000 people being killed.
China
400
Cuban dictator who overthrew the government and put in a Communist regime.
Fidel Castro
400
Country where U.S. gets most of its oil
United States
500
This was a pact of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries that fell apart in 1991
Warsaw
500
This invasion was an attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro in Cuba by JFK and the CIA
Bay of Pigs
500
This war began when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990
Persian Gulf
500
Leader of the Soviet Union for most of the Cold War
Nikita Krushchev
500
5 Communist countries still in existence today
China, North Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam