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100

A attempt to burgle and bug the Democratic Party election headquarters led this president to resign in 1974.

Who is Nixon?

100

An OPEC embargo caused the price of this product to quadruple in 1973.

What is oil?

100

Later awarded a Nobel Peace Prize, he became leader of the USSR in 1985.

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

100
A Holocaust survivor, she became the first president of the European Parliament in 1979.

Who is Simone Veil?

100
Named Time Magazine's Person of the Year in 1978, this diminutive leader opened China's economy to foreign investment and market competition.

Who is Deng Xiaoping?

200

This terms refers to the combination of inflation and a lack of economic growth.

What is stagflation?

200

In 1972, the Palestinian group Black September murdered the entire Israeli Olympics team in this German city.

What is Munich?

200

A catastrophic nuclear explosion took place in 1986 near this Soviet city.

What is Chernobyl?

200

These three countries joined what was then known as the EEC in the 1970s.

What are Great Britain, Ireland, and Denmark?

200

Adopted in 1977, the Four Modernizations sought to improve China's agriculture, science, industry, and this.

What is national defense?

300

This fatal disease spread among the gay male community during the 1980s

What is AIDS?

300

Under President Carter, the Camp David Accords brought peace between which two Middle Eastern countries?

What are Egypt and Israel?

300

The Berlin Wall fell in this month and year. 

What is November, 1989?

300

The 1992 treaty signed in this Dutch city turned the EEC into the European Union and expanded its powers.

What is Maastricht?

300

A massacre in this central Beijing square in 1989 revealed the regime's determination to quash political dissent.

What is Tienanmen?

400

This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalised abortion across the US

What is Roe v Wade?

400

The US secretly supported these Islamic rebels during the 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War.

Who are the Mujahideen?

400

These two Russian terms describe the new Soviet regime's key economic and political reforms.

What are perestroika and glasnost?

400

Most of the EU's budget was spent on this policy in the 1980s.

What is the Common Agricultural Policy?

400

Diplomatic relations between the US and China were official restored under this US President.

Who is Jimmy Carter?

500

Published in the Washington Post and the New York Times, this 1971 report exposed how the government misled Americans for over a decade about the Vietnam War

What are the Pentagon Papers?

500

This Iranian ruler was overthrown by the Ayatollah in 1979.

Who is Reza Shah Pahlavi?

500

In 1980, the Solidarity trade union movement in this country challenged the Soviet hegemony.

What is Poland?

500

Great Britain voted (52%) to leave the EU in this year.

What is 2016?

500

The rapprochement between the US and China was first initiated when US players of this sport visited China.

What is ping-pong?