Passport to Politics
A global organization founded in 1945 to promote peace, cooperation, and human rights.
The United Nations
The period of geopolitical tension between the U.S. and the Soviet Union after WWII.
The Cold War
Leader of the Soviet Union in the early years of the Cold War until his death in 1953.
Joseph Stalin
This Asian war, fought from 1950 to 1953, ended in a stalemate and divided a peninsula at the 38th parallel.
The Korean War
This American music icon claimed "We didn't start the fire. No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it."
Billy Joel
The increase in interconnectedness of world economies, cultures, and populations.
globalization
A competition between the U.S. and USSR to develop the most powerful weapons.
The arms race
He led the Chinese Communist Revolution and became chairman of the People’s Republic of China.
Mao Zedong
A long and costly war in Southeast Asia where the U.S. tried to stop the spread of communism, ending in failure in 1975.
The Vietnam War
In Rocky IV (1985), Rocky Balboa defeated Ivan Drago, a towering fighter from this country?
The Soviet Union
A deliberate and systematic extermination of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
genocide
Violent actions designed to intimidate or coerce, especially for political ends.
terrorism
This U.S President helped negotiate an end to the Cuban Missile Crisis.
John F. Kennedy
The USSR invaded this country in 1979, leading to a U.S.-backed insurgency that lasted a decade.
Afghanistan
The 1962 spy film Dr. No launched a British franchise that would become an icon of Cold War espionage fantasy.
James Bond
These independent, nonprofit groups often provide aid and promote social causes worldwide.
Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's)
That symbol of the Cold War was knocked down in 1989 leading to the reunification of Germany.
The Berlin Wall.
This man led the communist North Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War
Ho Chi Min
This island nation became a Cold War hotspot after a 1959 revolution and the 1962 missile crisis.
Cuba
This 1984 film about a group of American teens fighting off a Soviet invasion reflected Cold War fears of conflict on U.S. soil.
Red Dawn
A policy of racial segregation and discrimination formerly practiced in South Africa.
Apartheid
The U.S won the space race by landing this spacecraft on the Moon in July of 1969.
Apollo 11
She was India’s prime minister during much of the Cold War and a key leader in the Non-Aligned Movement.
Indira Gandhi
In this African country, the U.S. and USSR backed opposing sides during a civil war after it gained independence from Portugal in 1975 and ended in 2002.
Angola
This dystopian novel, written by George Orwell, featured Big Brother and became a Cold War allegory about surveillance and totalitarianism.
1984