The Cold War (1)
This was the imaginary line dividing the communist and non-communist nations in Europe after WWII?
The Iron Curtain
This city literally had a wall built down the middle so people on the East could not escape communism in the West?
Berlin
Mohandas Gandhi used passive resistance to help this country gain independence from England?
India
Apartheid was the legal segregation of races in this African country?
South Africa
What is the only planet in our solar system that is not named after a Greek or Roman god or goddess?
Earth
This presidential decree promised the U.S. would help Greece and Turkey resist communism?
The Truman Doctrine
Fidel Castro became the communist dictator of this island nation in 1959?
Cuba
This country was created in 1948 for a refuge for Jews after the Holocaust?
Israel
He was the last Premier of the Soviet Union untul its collapse in 1991?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Actor Steve Carell plays what memorable character in the popular TV series “The Office”?
Michael Scott
This country turned communist in 1949, greatly scaring the United States and starting our policy of containment?
China
The United States aided in the resistance when the Soviet Union invaded this nation in 1979?
Afghanistan
They came to power in Afghanistan shortly after the Soviet Union's retreat in 1989?
Taliban
"Shock Therapy" was Boris Yeltsin's plan to reform what part of the newly independent Russia?
Economy
Which Canadian hockey player is considered to be the greatest of all time?
Wayne Gretzky
Our first war using the policy of containment occurred in which country?
Korea
This policy refers to a lessening of tensions between the US and USSR during the Cold War?
Detente
This Pacific nation gained independence in 1946, after being controlled by the United States since the Spanish-American War (1998)?
The Philippines
What year was the Berlin Wall torn down?
1989
Who wrote “The Star-Spangled Banner”?
Francis Scott Key
When this country went completely communist in 1975 it was considered a lost war for the United States?
Vietnam
The SALT treaties dealt with limiting what between the US and USSR?
Nuclear Weapons
This was founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden and others to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
Al-Qaeda
What year was Germany reunified back into a single country?
1990
The only known monotremes in the animal kingdom are the echidna and which other creature?
Platypus