War on Terror
This group emerged in the power vacuum after the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.
What is ISIS?
The policy that aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This leader opened China’s economy after Mao’s death.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
This 1962 event nearly led to nuclear war between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This secret group led violent resistance against British rule in Kenya.
What is the Mau Mau?
The U.S. invaded this country in 2001 after the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden.
What is Afghanistan?
This Cold War term describes a nuclear war leading to complete death on both sides.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
This 1989 student protest in Beijing became a global symbol of authoritarian suppression.
What is Tiananmen Square?
This conflict from 1950 to 1953 involved a United Nations coalition, Chinese intervention, and ended in a stalemate near the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
Ghana’s first post-colonial leader and a champion of Pan-Africanism.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
This terrorist organization was responsible for the attacks on 9/11.
This doctrine promised U.S. support to countries resisting communism, starting with Greece and Turkey.
This policy (that no longer exists) limited the number of kids a Chinese family could have.
The elected leader of this country was overthrown by the CIA and replaced by a military dictatorship after he tried to give some banana plantation land to peasants.
What is Guatemala?
This Indian leader used nonviolent resistance to push for independence from Britain.
Who is Mahatma Gandhi?
This acronym refers to the alleged reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003.
What is WMDs?
This military alliance was formed by the Soviet Union and its communist allies in Eastern Europe.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
China’s post-communist economic system which blends state control with profit-based markets, is often called this.
What is state capitalism?
The independence leader of Vietnam who allied North Vietnam with the Soviet Union and China.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This term describes colonies where white Europeans settled in large numbers and resisted independence.
What is a settler colony?
These three types of modern conflict strategies have replaced traditional wars in many cases.
What are proxy wars, drone warfare, and cyberattacks?
What is Hungary?
The average annual growth of the Chinese economy from 1980 to 2010 (a world historical record).
What is 10%?
Backed by the Soviet Union, this African nation’s civil war became a Cold War proxy conflict involving Cuba, the USSR, China, South Africa, and the U.S.
What is Angola?
This organization led the armed resistance to French settler colonialism in Algeria.
What is the FLN?