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The most popular show of the 1950s

I Love Lucy

100

The first democratically elected president of South Africa

Nelson Mandela

100

A key early computer company

IBM

100

This country experienced an economic "miracle"

Japan

100

Operation Paperclip relocated scientists from this country to the United States

Germany
200

This video game series, and anime, and trading card game, and merchandise franchise swept the world in the late 1990s

Pokemon

200

The leader of Polish efforts to resist Soviet influence in the 1980s

Lach Walesa

200

For millions across the world, this was the first computer they ever saw

UNIVAC

200

SAP is an acronym used to describe a dreaded set of economic preconditions

Structural Adjustment Programs

200

This city experienced a genocide during the Bosnian War

Srebrenica

300

This popular musical genre of the early 1990s was kind of dirty

Grunge

300

He was overthrown in a violent coup in Chile

Salvador Allende

300

This pesticide helped feed a rapidly growing population, but at a tremendous environmental cost

DDT

300

These entities often imposed SAPs

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank

300

This terrorist organization perpetrated the September 11th attacks

Al Qaeda

400

The singer of the hit song "What's Going on"

Marvin Gaye

400

The first president of Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah

400

This company was a key early produce of silicon microchips

Intel

400

This American generation was at the heart of the Consumption Revolution

The Baby Boomers

400

These reforms were critical in working toward the end of the Cold War in the USSR

Glasnost and Perestroika

500

This popular TV drama brought a darker and more explicit form of TV to network television

NYPD Blue

500

A Cold War Billionaire

Mobutu Sese Seku

500

The two founders of Apple Computers

Stephen Wozniak and Steve Jobs

500

The four "Asian Tigers" that rapidly grew their economies

South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore

500

This was a major concern of Gen X during the 1990s

"selling out"