World Organizations
What is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.
United Nations
What was the political, military, and ideological barrier created by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas?
Iron Curtain or Berlin Wall
Who was president of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1969, and he was one of the most influential communist leaders of the 20th century?
Ho Chi Minh
Who is a brutal, fundamentalist religious group that held power over most of Afghanistan during the late 1990s?
Taliban
Who was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969?
Lyndon B. Johnson or LBJ
This was founded in 1949 and is a group of 31 countries from Europe and North America that exists to protect the people and territory of its members.
NATO
What was a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II?
Containment
What was a Cold War policy that suggested a communist government in one nation would quickly lead to communist takeovers in neighboring states, each falling like a row of dominos?
What consists of violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups who are inspired by, or associated with, designated foreign terrorist organizations or nations (state-sponsored)?
Terrorism
Who was an American politician and actor who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989?
Ronald Reagan
What was a collective defence treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe?
Warsaw Pact
What was an ongoing political rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies that developed after World War II?
Cold War
The Vietnamese Communists, or what, were the military branch of the National Liberation Front (NLF), and were commanded by the Central Office for South Vietnam, which was located near the Cambodian border?
Viet Cong
What was enacted following the September 11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks with the stated goal of tightening U.S. national security, particularly as it related to foreign terrorism?
USA Patriot Act
Who was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the eighth and final leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to the country's dissolution in 1991?
Mikhail Gorbachev
(RANDOM) What can be defined as a sustained period of weak or negative growth in real GDP (output) that is accompanied by a significant rise in the unemployment rate?
Recession
The literal meaning of _ is "reconstruction", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation.
Perestroika
Who was a Soviet and Russian politician who served as the first president of Russia from 1991 to 1999?
Boris Yeltsin
(RANDOM) In general, the _ is a collection of networks linked by a common protocol, in the time period when the ARPANET was connected to the newly formed NSFNET project in the late 1980s.
Internet
What was the process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which took place between 1989 and 1991?
Reunification