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Genocide
40s/50s
60s
70s
80s/90s
100
Communist government in Cambodia
Who is the Khmer Rouge?
100
Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan are the first examples of this
What is Containment?
100
The United States solution to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Naval Blockade?
100
North Vietnam war tactic; individuals who make hit and run attacks on the enemy
What is Guerrila Warfare?
100
When Iranian students attacked the U.S. embassy in Tehran seizing about 90 (52 diplomats) American hostages.
What is the Iran Hostage Crisis?
200
Which tribe did the Belgium choose to be the "elite" group.
Who are the Tutsis?
200
President after FDR dies, makes decision to drop the atomic bomb and led the United States into the Korean War.
Who is Harry S. Truman
200
organization created by students to train protesters and organize civil rights protests
What is SNCC
200
Treaty between US and Soviet Union to limit the number of nuclear weapons
What is SALT
200
Major epidemic that hit the United States, at first people believed it only affected gay men
What is AIDS?
300
In Darfur the Arab Africans targeted who?
Who are the Black Africans?
300
The symbolic divide between East and West Europe, term coined by Winston Churchill.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
Gave the president permission to do what he deemed necessary in war without consulting congress.
What is the Tonkin Gulf Resolution?
300
Requires the President to get congressional approval before committing the U.S. troops to an armed struggle
What is the War Powers Act?
300
Major pop singer during the 80s.... We watched one of his music videos?
Who is Michael Jackson?
400
In the Cambodian Genocide the Blue Scarves show what stage of genocide?
What is symbolization?
400
Tensions between the Soviet Union and United States lasting over 40 years.
What is the Cold War
400
The result of Watergate
What is Nixon resigned?
400
The new "fear" after Communism falls.
What is Terrorism
500
The last stage of Genocide
What is denial?
500
Events during/following the Korean war where hundreds of people were blacklisted for being “associated” with communism
What is the Red Scare?
500
Surprise attacks in South Vietnam on the Vietnam New Year. Included an attack on the US Embassy
What is the Tet Offensive?
500
Who is responsible for controlling the production and sale of the oil to keep prices high
What is OPEC?
500
Leader of Al-Queda
Who is Osama Bin Laden?