The Cold War
Name of the Cold War alliance created by the Soviet Union for Eastern European countries.
Warsaw Pact
Name the two religions involved in the partition of India.
Hinduism and Islam
What was John F. Kennedy's plan of action to handle the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Naval blockade of Cuba + diplomatic negotiations with the Soviet Union
What country invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and fought there for 10 years?
The Soviet Union
“D-Day” was a famous Allied invasion of Normandy, located in what country?
France
A theory that said if one country fell to Communism, all of the surrounding countries would also fall to Communism.
Domino Theory
This person used satyagraha, or nonviolent civil disobedience, to lead India to independence from British rule.
Mahatma Ghandi
What was the result of the Korean War?
Korea remained divided into communist (North Korea) and democratic (South Korea) parts, roughly at the same dividing line as where the war started.
What was the Balfour Declaration of 1917?
Called for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine.
Which political ideology believes in extreme nationalism, is led by a dictator, and is combined with a belief in the superiority of the Aryan race?
Nazism
What did the "Iron Curtain" separate?
The democracies of Western Europe and the totalitarian countries of Eastern Europe
Who was the Muslim leader that supported the partition of India?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
What was Ho Chi Minh's ideology and what was his main goal?
Ideology: Communist.
Goal: to be independent from France.
Did the United States support or fight against Saddam Hussein of Iraq?
The US supported him during the Iran-Iraq War. After Iraq invaded Kuwait, the US shifted to not supporting him.
What were the two main theaters of war during WWII?
The European and Pacific theaters
What was the reason for the Berlin Airlift?
The Soviet Union blocked all supplies from getting into West Berlin by railroad, train, or water ways.
(Why? The USSR tried to force the Western powers out of Berlin).
Leader of Ghana's independence movement, who promoted using non-violent means.
Kwame Nkrumah
The Cuban missile stand-off was resolved through a secret deal to remove US Jupiter missiles from Italy and which other country?
Turkey
Name the rebel group in Afghanistan supported by the United States against the Soviets
Mujahadeen
Which leader was responsible for authoritarian rule in the Soviet Union during and after WWII?
Stalin
The program that gave US economic and military aid to countries, especially Greece and Turkey, who were threatened by the Soviet Union after WWII.
The Truman Doctrine
Which North African nation had a bloody eight-year war for independence against France?
Algeria
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
It gave President Lyndon B. Johnson broad authority to use military force in Vietnam
Name of the Mujahadeen fighter who formed Al-Qaeda, the terrorist group who flew planes into the World Trade Center.
Osama bin Laden
Germany's attack on this country in September 1939 officially marked the beginning of WWII.
Poland