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This was the first man on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
This is what it is called when people move to a different country.
What is immigration?
This was a contest between the United States and Soviet Union to reach major milestones in space exploration first.
What was the Space Race?
This is an economic and political alliance of 27 European countries.
What is the European Union?
These two buildings were destroyed or damaged in the 9/11 attacks.
What were the World Trade Center and the Pentagon?
This U.S. president urged the general secretary of the Soviet Union to "Tear down this wall!"
Who was Ronald Regan?
This is the main reason that population is declining in many parts of the world.
What are low birth rates?
This occurred when the United States discovered that the Soviet Union had secretly placed missiles within striking range of the U.S. mainland.
What was the Cuban Missle Crisis?
This is the common currency used by many countries within the EU.
What is the Euro?
These new technologies have significantly changed the way people live and work within the past 100 years.
What are phones, internet, household appliances, etc.
This president of Iraq launched an invasion of Kuwait, prompting a UN response. Following a U.S. invasion, he was captured and executed.
Who was Saddam Hussein?
This was a plan to limit the spread of communism by providing financial aid to democratic countries.
What was the Marshall Plan?
It was difficult for the United States to make progress during the Vietnam War for these reasons.
What were jungle terrain, guerrilla tactics, and negative media coverage?
These were north Vietnamese communists.
Who were the Viet Kong?
These power sources are used to generate electricity.
What are coal, oil, solar, wind, etc.?
This communist leader of China promised to double production of steel and agricultural goods, but his policies caused mass starvation.
Who was Mao Zedong
Christianity has recently begun to spread with more sucess in this region of the world.
What is the Global South?
This marks the boundary between North Korea and South Korea that was established at the end of the Korean War.
What is the 38th parallel?
This is an Islamic militant group based in Afganistan.
What is the Taliban?
This terrorist network was founded by Osama Bin Laden.
What is al Qaeda?
This man was the last leader of the Soviet Union. He promoted a policy known as “glasnost” or openness.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
These are countries that remained neutral during the Cold War.
What are third world countries?
This was the United States' responce to the Soviet blockade of West Germany.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
This group of countries uses the CFA Franc as a common currency.
What is the West African Economic and Monetary Union?