Cold War & Developing World
In what year did the Korean War begin, 1948, 1950, or 1965?
What is 1950?
The first round of oil shocks resulted from an OPEC embargo opposing US support for which country?
What is Israel?
First identified in homosexual men in 1981, this disease has killed more than 35 million around the world
What is AIDS?
The public funeral of this black teenager, murdered in Mississippi for talking to a white woman, inspired many to embrace the civil rights movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
After the collapse of the USSR, a 3-year civil war broke out in this ethnically-divide republic of Yugoslavia.
What is Bosnia?
A crisis began in 1956 when the Egyptian leader Nassar nationalized this crucial waterway.
What is the Suez Canal?
What is Watergate?
Despite escalating Cold War rhetoric and military spending, President Reagan met with this reform-minded Soviet leader three times.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
Rosa Parks' arrest prompted a year-long bus boycott in this Alabama city.
What is Montgomery?
On Sept 11 of this year, a terrorist attack masterminded by al Qaeda killed nearly 3,000 Americans.
What is 2001?
Born in 1890, he led the Vietnamese resistance to first the Japanese, then the French, and finally the Americans.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Signed at this presidential retreat, these landmark 1979 accords made peace between Israel and Egypt.
What is Camp David?
America boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics after the USSR invaded this Muslim country.
What is Afghanistan?
This president was forced to send the 101st Airborne to protect the 9 black students trying to integrate Little Rock's Central High School.
Who is President Eisenhower?
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This Korean War settled into a stalemate after a mass invasion from this country pushed the American-led UN forces back to the 38th parallel.
What is China?
The Iranian Revolution ousted the Shah and brought this radical Islamic leader to power in 1979
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
In 1984, Deng Xiaoping persuades UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher to return this territory to China in 1997
What is Hong Kong?
An unexpected riot at this New York City tavern helped spark the gay rights movement.
What is the Stonewall Inn?
After nearly 3 years of inaction, this US president finally ended the war in Yugoslavia with a bombing campaign and the Dayton Accords.
Who is Bill Clinton?
US support for the Vietnam War fell after the surprising success of this Vietnamese attack in 1968.
What is the Tet Offensive?
A series of strikes and soaring inflation brought this conservative Prime minister to power in the UK in 1979.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
The Berlin Wall is torn down in this year.
What is 1989?
This 1973 Supreme Court decision legalized abortion across America
What is Roe v. Wade?
The 'end of history' essay was written by this political science scholar.
Who is Francis Fukuyama?