Which was the communist state, North or
South Vietnam?
What was the “Domino Theory” in
Asia?
Who was the leader of the Vietnamese
communists?
Who was the leader of South Vietnam at
the beginning of the U.S. war? (Diem)
True or false – the Viet Minh and the
Viet Cong were both communist groups.
Who was the U.S. president that first
sent troops (Marines) to Vietnam? (Johnson)
What is a draft?
What two countries supported the
communists in Vietnam?
After the fall of Saigon in 1975, what
was it renamed?
What is a POW?
What is MIA?
What does the Vietnam Memorial look
like?
Name one of the three territories
Israel occupied after the Six Day War.
Why did Israel fight Egypt, Jordon,
Syria during the Six Day War?
Why did Israel fight Syria and Egypt in
the Yom Kippur War?
What is OPEC?
What was the oil embargo?
Who did Jimmy Carter get together to
try to make peace in the Middle East?
What happened to Anwar Sadat?
What was the agreement of these three
called (camp david accords)?
What did they win for the agreement?
Who was premier of USSR after
Khrushchev (Brezhnev)
What is the KGB?
What was a Soviet defector?
What does it mean to seek political
asylum?
Why were the camps in Siberia?
What happened when Dubcek tried to gain
a little independence for Czechoslovakia from the USSR?
What country did the USSR invade in
1979?
Did they win there?
What were the fighters called who
rebelled against the USSR in Afghanistan?
What was the PLO?
What was the IRA?
What is terrorism (specific)?
What two countries was India split
into?
What third country (Bangladesh) was
later formed?
What woman became prime minister of
India in 1966?
Whose daughter was she? (Nehru)
What happened to Gandhi?
Who did it?
What happened with Union Carbide?
What country was ruled by a shah and
then an ayatolla?
What was Iran called before it was
called Iran?
What nation did Iran go to war with?
Who was the leader of Iraq?
What was the hostage crisis in Iran
about?
What religion do the leaders of Iran
belong to?
What is the legal system of the Muslim
religion called?
What happened at Chernobyl?
What is a nuclear energy generator
called? (reactor)
What happened at Three Mile Island?
Who was the U.S. president during the
80s?
Who was the Soviet premier during the
80s?
What physical feature was Gorbachev
known for?
Who was elected as president of Russia
after the Soviet Union disintegrated?
What is perestroika? (restructuring)
What is glastnost (openness)?
Was is MAD?
What were ICBMs?
What is unilateral disarmament?
What was “Star Wars” missile
defense?
Who was in charge of China's communist
party?
What party leader later challenged him,
was imprisoned, but then took over after his death? Deng Xiaoping
What was the Great Leap Forward?
What was the Cultural Revolution?
Who suffered under Mao?
What country believes today it has the
true Chinese government and will return?
What happened at Tainanmen Square?
Why did a wall surround West Berlin?
What happened to the wall in November
of 1989?
What nation did Iraq invade in 1990?
Who was the leader of Iraq and the
Republic Guards during the war?
What nation led the war against the
invasion?
Who was the leader of the U.S. at the
time?
What happened to Kuwait during the Gulf
War?
What happened to the United States on
9/11/01?
Who attacked the U.S. on 9/11, and why?
What war followed 9/11?
Who was deposed and executed following
that war?
Where does the U.S. still have troops
today following that war? (Afghan, Iraq)
What terrorist group took
responsibility for 9/11 (al queda)?
Who was the leader, later killed by
American soldiers (bin Laden)
What rebel terrorist group is taking
back parts of Iraq today and terrorizing citizens (Isis, isil)
What were the two major ethnic groups
of Rwanda?
What happened to the Tutsis, and why?
What is genocide?
What was the policy of racial
separation in S. Africa called?
Which black leader led the fight
against it?
Which white leader ended it? (de Klerk)
What happened to Nelson Mandela?
Why was Anglican bishop Desmond Tutu
important?
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