Vietnam
Cold War
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Home Affairs
100
What si the name of the movement in the USA which was strongly against the Vietnam war but also promoted freedom and love.
What are the Hippies.
100
A name for a group of Western countries that formed the main oposition to Soviet Union.
What is NATO.
100
The Iraqi leader in both the wars.
What is Saddam Hussein.
100
Who was the Mastermind behind the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 9, 2001?
What is Osama Bin Laden
100
This dashing young president and owner of a Pulitzer prize had the famous "I am a Berliner" Speech in Berlin. The whole country mourned when he was assassinated in Dallas, TX in 1963
What is John F. Kennedy.
200
This country strongly supported the communist North Vietnam and even directly engaged with US troops.
What is China.
200
In 1961 after a not accepted ultimatum by Soviet Union a certain monumental structure was built in this town.
What is the Berlin Wall.
200
The invasion of this country by Iraq was the direct cause of the first Iraq War.
What is Kuwait.
200
What Islamist militant group was the main target of this war?
What is al-Qaeda.
200
This American president resigned in 1974 while figuring in one of the biggest scandals in American history that was connected to wiretapping members of oposition in the Watergate hotel complex.
What is Richard Nixon.
300
This lightly armed communist group in Vietnam was known for its guerrilla type of war.
What is Viet Cong.
300
The greatest direct danger the US faced in the cold war was during a missile crisis connected to one island state.
What is Cuba.
300
The main ally of the US in the Iraq War in the so-called "Coalition of the willing". This was formed because the support of this war was not unanimous within the Security Council of the UN as during the first war. Fun fact: Freedom Fries.
What is the United Kingdom.
300
Invasion of what country was the direct result of the attacks on 9/11?
What is Afghanistan.
300
The full name of this Civil Rights movement leader who managed to greatly quicken the end of racial segregation in the US. He was assassinated in Mephis, TN in 1968.
What is Martin Luther King Jr.
400
The city whose capture ended the Vietnam war.
What is Saigon.
400
The president who initiated the reforms of "Perestroika" and "Glasnost" that in time led to the end of the Cold war and allowed revolutions in satellite states to go without Russian intervention.
What is Mikhail Gorbachev.
400
The main reason for the second Iraq war was that the regime worked on creating this.
What is weapons of mass destruction.
400
The number 1 on the CIA list, OB-L was killed on May 2 in this year.
What is 2011.
400
One of the most popular American presidents, he governed in the time of peace and economic growth and ended his last three years with a surplus budget. He was also impeached after a scandal with his intern.
What is Bill Clinton.
500
This European country lost the 1st Indochina war in Vietnam and indirectly caused the second one (also called the Vietnam war) 10 years later.
What is France.
500
An Asian country the Soviet Union invaded in 1979 and whose rebels against this invasion were heavily supported by the USA, mostly financially. It all backfired many years later.
What is Afghanistan.
500
The codename for the first Gulf War.
What is operation Desert Storm.
500
These two European cities were the victim of terrorist attacks in 2004 and 2005 respectively.
What is Madrid and London.
500
This presidential candidate was beaten by George W. Bush Junior in the closest election in the history of the USA. The problematic state was Florida and the whole thing even got to court.
What is Al Gore.