Cold War Origins and Cold War in Europe
Cold War in Africa and Asia
Nuclear Weapons and Communist China
Decolonization in India and Africa
1989 and the Collapse of the USSR
100
This European country was famously divided at the start of the Cold War
Germany
100
Which Korea attacked first during the Korean War
North Korea
100
What was the primary goal of the Great Leap Forward
Increase Industrial Output
100
These wars greatly weakened European empires in Africa and Asia
WWI and WWII
100
The Soviet invasion of this country in 1979 greatly weakened the USSR
Afghanistan
200
This American policy was meant to prevent the spread of communism
Containment
200
The French lost these two colonies through protracted wars that both lasted eight years
(200 points for each correct answer)
Vietnam and Algeria
200
These are the the official names of mainland China and Taiwan
(200 points for each correct answer, be sure to label which one is which)
Mainland China: People's Republic of China
Taiwan: Republic of China
200
Communists were able to position themselves as anti-imperialists due to imperialism's association with this
Capitalism
200
What event is this famous photo from?
Tiananmen Square
300
This was the Soviet counterpart to NATO
Warsaw Pact
300
20th century independence movements in Asia and Africa were primarily inspired by
nationalism
300
This policy stated that both the USSR and US would destroy each other if they went to war
M.A.D.
Mutually Assured Destruction
300
The French set up CFA Franc Zones in which two regions of Africa
West and Central Africa
300
He was the last leader of the USSR
Mikhail Gorbachev
400
This policy called for the Red Army to invade any Soviet satellite country that moved away from Soviet communism
Brezhnev Doctrine
400
This event most clearly demonstrated the global power shift away from European empires after WWII
The Suez Crisis
400
How many countries currently have nuclear weapons
(double points if you can name them)
9 (Russia, US, China, France, UK, Pakistan, India, Israel, and North Korea)
400
The Indo-Pakistani Wars are similar to the Arab-Israeli Wars in that they are largely conflicts driven by this
Disputed land; Religion (also acceptable)
400
These two reforms were meant to reform and modernize the USSR but instead greatly crippled the communist regime
(double points if you can spell them right)
Perestroika and Glasnost
500
The Soviet Red Army invaded this Eastern European country in 1956 to suppress a revolution
Hungary
500
These types of conflicts are ones where the US and USSR never directly fought each other
Proxy Wars
500
In China, the 19th century is known as this
The Century of Humiliation
500
These two leaders used civil disobedience to fight colonial oppression in their countries
Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela
500
Name all the Soviet satellite states in Eastern Europe that collapsed in 1989.
East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria