Dates Acronyms Fill in the blank People The Cold War
100
What happened in 1948?
Three possible ansers: Israel founded, Gandhi Assassinated, OR Apartheid starts in South Africa
100
PLO?
Palestinian Liberation Organization
100
Since the women's rights movement began women in countries like Great Britain and India have begun to serve in high _______________
political offices (Will take answers like presidents, leaders, heads of state...
100
Who led underground acts of disobedience and terrorist activities to lobby for a Palestian State after the birth of the State of Israel?
Yasir Arafat
100
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of the Communist forces, leading to the US fear of the "domino effect" in this "hot war."
Vietnam Conflict
200
What conflict happened in the Middle East in 1990?
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein invades oil-rich nation of Kuwait
200
WMD's?
Weapons of Mass Destruction
200
Begninning in the 1930s and made offical in 1948, blacks in South Africa were denied rights and separated from whites in a system called ___________________.
Apartheid
200
Who was jailed as the leader of the ANC and eventually became the first Black South African Head of State?
Nelson Mandela
200
A stand-off between Soviet leader Joseph Stalin whereby the US flew supplies into Berlin for a ten month period.
Berlin Airlift
300
What happened on September 11, 2001
Terrorist hijack planes and crash them into WTC, Pentagon and Pennsylvania Field
300
NAFTA?
North American Free Trade Agreement
300
Ghana was given ___________________ in 1957, making it the first African nation to acheive this milestone.
given independence in 1957
300
Who was the first female Prime Minister of Great Britain?
Margaret Thatcher
300
Led by Mao Zedong, this was an attempt by China to catch up to the United States that actually led to the death of millions by famine in the late 1950's.
The Great Leap Forward
400
Who was finally found in 2011?
Osama Bin Laden
400
NATO?
North American Free Trade Agreement
400
Countries forced into the Communist Bloc by the USSR during the Cold War were called _________________________.
Satellite nations
400
Who led the Indian independence movement in South Africa (pre-1914) and India (1914-1948)?
Mohandas K. Gandhi
400
The stated US policy to deal with the spread of Communism in Europe; demonstrated by the use of the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine.
The Policy of Containment
500
What happend in 1991 that completely changed the course of Communism in Eastern Europe?
USSR dissolves and elects Boris Yeltsin as leader to fix problems
500
EU?
European Union
500
The movement among Jews to recreate the State of Israel in the 1900's is called _______________.
Zionism
500
Who led the Soviet Union towards democracy by starting the policies of "glasnost" and "perestroika?"
Michael Gorbachev
500
When the US demanded that the USSR dismantle nuclear facilities in the Western Hemisphere, it led to a thirteen-day stand-off called by this name.
The Cuban Missile Crisis






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