Personalities
The Polish leader of Solidarity
Who is Lech Walesa?
Osama bin Laden was one; they received training and arms from the CIA to combat Russian forces in Afghanistan.
Who are the mujahaddin?
Her economic policies meant tax cuts for the rich and the loss of arts subsidies during the 1980s.
Who is Margaret Thatcher?
A stagnant Soviet economy led Gorbachev to establish _____, a series of free market reforms.
What is perestroik?
This country’s reunification in 1990 meant a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism.
What is Germany?
This Cuban dictator was forced out by Fidel Castro.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
Through this 1955 treaty, the Soviets increased its dominance over its satellite countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
In 1948, 23 countries signed this agreement in an effort to reduce barriers to world trade. This agreement was replaced in 1995 by the World Trade Organization, which currently has 164 member nations.
What is GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade?
Woodrow Wilson advocated for the principle of _____, enabling former colonies to decide their own form of government without outside interference.
What is the principle of national self-determinatio?
What is now Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan.
What was the USSR?
During his second term in office, he sought to address the nuclear arms race while pursuing an aggressive anti-Communist policy.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This Cuban fiasco has been described as a US foreign policy failure, and burnished the reputation of Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
It is the second largest economy in the world.
What is the European Union?
The underlying premise of this philosophy, borne out of the traumas of two world wars, is that God is no longer present in the world; humans can only rely on themselves and take responsibility for their own lives.
What is existentialism?
The Communist Party of Kampuchea in Cambodia is more popularly known by this name.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
Saigon was renamed in his honor.
Who is Ho Chih Minh?
1966-1976 was a time of profound crisis in China, with Mao plunging the country in political, economic, and social turmoil in what is labeled _____.
What is the Cultural Revolution (or the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution)?
The man responsible for making China an economic superpower.
Who is Deng Xiaoping?
Soviet bloc countries functioned as ______, which is the opposite of a free market economy.
What is a planned economy?
These were Soviet forced labor camps, where dissidents and enemies of the state were sent to Serve their prison sentences.
What is a gulag?
The first human in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
This war evolved from being “hot”, transitioning into “cold”.
What is the Korean War?
This country has invested at least $5.5 trillion dollars on its nuclear arsenal and delivery systems.
What is the United States?
These were first negotiated by Nixon and Brezhnev in 1972, in an attempt to limit nuclear armaments.
What is SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty)?
A theory that proposed a massive buildup of military and weaponry in order to threaten a destructive counter-attack to any potential attack. The threat was intended to prevent, or deter, anyone from attacking.
What is deterrence theory?