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100

The most popular show of the 1950s

I Love Lucy

100

The first democratically elected president of South Africa

Nelson Mandela

100

The structure became a symbol of the Cold War in a city many saw at the center of it.

The Berlin Wall

100

This country experienced an economic "miracle"

Japan

100

This group (Or groups) fought against the Soviet Union after they invaded Afghanistan.

The Mujahideen

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

This word describes a period of diminished Cold War tensions between the two super powers.

Detente 

200

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

Structural Adjustment Programs

200

The Battle of Mogadishu occurred in what country?

Somalia

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 was a critical step in America's beginning of direct military actions against North Vietnam

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution 

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

This group's 1964 performance on the Ed Sullivan Show kicked off the British Invasion.

The Beatles 

400

The first president of Ghana

Kwame Nkrumah

400

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

Glasnost and Perestroika

400

This American generation was at the heart of the Consumption Revolution

The Baby Boomers

400

This city experienced a genocide during the Bosnian War

Srebrenica

500

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

NYPD Blue

500

He helped to lead China after the death of Mao Zedong and was responsible for the 'four modernizations' 

Deng Xiaoping

500

A Cold War Billionaire

Mobutu Sese Seku

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"