Middle East
What resource gives many countries in the Middle East increased power and influence in the world?
oil
In 1955, Jonas Salk achieved a landmark medical breakthrough by developing the _______.
polio vaccine
What was the name of the Japanese suicide pilots that were used late in World War II?
kamikaze
containment
In 2014 Russia occupied and annexed the Crimean Peninsula in the country:
Ukraine
From what country did Iran seize 52 hostages in 1979?
United States
This policy of segregation separated White and Black South Africans:
apartheid
What was the name of Hitler's plan to murder all Jews?
Final Solution
Who won the Chinese Civil War and became the dictator of the People’s Republic of China?
Mao Zedong
What event sparked the process of decolonization in many African colonies?
World War II
Which of group has had their rights restricted by the conservative government of Saudi Arabia?
women
The colony of India was partitioned into these two new countries:
India and Pakistan
This was the turning point battle on the Eastern Front:
Stalingrad
This American program helped rebuild many countries in Western Europe:
Marshall Plan
During its nearly 20-year war in Afghanistan, the US fought against a _______ insurgency.
Taliban
The Camp David Accords was a landmark peace agreement between these two countries:
Egypt and Israel
This country was the first to gain independence in West Africa:
Ghana
This was the turning point naval battle in the Pacific:
Midway
The USSR crushed the attempts of these two countries to resist communism and move toward democracy:
Hungary and Czechoslovakia
Pakistan, India, and China have all struggled over this mountainous region
Kashmir
The Gulf War began in 1990 when Iraq invaded neighboring ____ to gain its oil deposits.
Algerians used guerilla warfare to win independence from this country:
France
What was the name of the mass aerial bombing of British cities in 1940?
the Blitz
détente
Yugoslavia was kept together by this communist dictator:
Josip Tito