What is the most powerful part of the United Nations?

The period of diplomatic hostility between the U.S. and Soviet Union from 1945 - 1991 that was constantly overshadowed by the threat of nuclear was the

The Cold War began in _______________ after World War II.

The physical symbol of the Cold War was

Some Chinese people became communist after World War I because they felt mistreated by the Allies in the Treaty of Versailles.

The person who became the leader of the Chinese Communists as a result of his leadership during the Long March of 1934 -1935 was

What event led some scholars to believe that World War II actually started in 1937?

Mao Zedong said that _________________ were the backbone of the Chinese Communist Revolution.

The People's Republic of China was established in

The _________________ overthrew the last Chinese emperor in 1912, tried to make China into a republic in the years that followed, then fled to Taiwan after losing a long civil war against the Chinese Communists.

What was the main argument of Winston Churchill's Iron Curtain speech given in Fulton Missouri in 1946?

The international organization that originally formed to stop the spread of communism but now focuses on anti-terrorism activities is

All of the following are true of the Korean War (1950 - 1953), except

What marks the boundary between North and South Korea today?

Approximately how many new countries were created in first few decades after World War II?

All colonies that gained their independence in the decades after World War II gained their independence peacefully.

Mao Zedong's failed economic policy lasting from 1958 - 1961 that forced peasants to work on giant state-owned farms called people's communes was called the

Mao Zedong started a movement called the ___________ that urged young people to attack "all things old" to restore revolutionary spirit in China. It resulted in the deaths of up to 2 million people and disrupted China's educational system for 10 years.

What impact did Deng Xiaoping's Four Modernizations policy have on China?

The one-child policy established in the late 1970s and early 1980s is still in effect in China.

Why was the Vietnam Conflict (1964 - 1975) arguably the biggest foreign policy failure of the U.S. during the Cold War?

After the Vietnam Conflict, _____________ established a communist agricultural state using extreme brutality that lasted from 1975 - 1979.

Who led a revolution in 1959 that established a communist state in Cuba?

The closest the U.S. and Soviet Union came to nuclear war was the _____________ of 1962.

The Soviet invasion of _____________________ began in 1979 and the Soviets remained there until 1989. This long war economically weakened the Soviet Union and may have contributed to its disintegration in 1991.

The worst nuclear disaster of the 20th Century occurred in 1986 in

The Soviet leader whose reform policies called perestroika and glasnost greatly contributed to the disintegration of the Soviet Union was

The Russian leader who opposed an attempted coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 and became independent Russia's first president was

The Russian leader who has dominated Russian politics since 1999 is

What event symbolically marks the end of the Cold War?

The true end of the Cold War occurred when

Democracy spread to many countries in the 1990s.

The secret 1916 agreement between the British and French that laid the basis for the boundaries of many modern Middle Eastern countries is the

The League of Nations assigned Britain a mandate that included Palestine, Transjordan, and Iraq, while it assigned France a mandate that included Syria and Lebanon.

_______________ led Turkey's successful War of Independence after World War I. He became Turkey's first president and steered Turkey to become a Western-style power.

Theodor Herzl began the Zionist Movement in 1897. What was its goal?

The term Holocaust refers to

Palestinian Muslims and Jews both accepted the U.N. Partition Plan of 1947.

After declaring the State of Israel in May 1948, the Israelis successfully defended themselves against a series of wars with their Arab neighbors.

The Israelis gained the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights during the

Egypt agreed to recognize Israel in exchange for the return of the Sinai Peninsula and economic aid from the U.S. as a result of the

The 1993 and 1995 agreements that laid the framework for a land-for-peace deal between Israelis and Palestinians is called the

The Iranian Revolution of 1979

Iraqi dictator Saddham Hussein began a war with _____________ that lasted from 1980 to 1988 and resulted in a total of 1 million deaths and no clear winner.

What was the main goal of the Gulf War of 1991?

The leader of al-Qaeda who orchestrated the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. was

The U.S. invaded ______________ in 2001 to overthrow the Taliban and find and punish the people who carried out the 9/11 attacks. The U.S. still has forces in this country.

In 2003, the U.S. invaded ____________ and overthrew Saddham Hussein after claiming his regime was developing weapons of mass destruction. The U.S. still has forces in this country.

The ___________________ Movement was an anti-monarchy, pro-democracy movement that started in North Africa and spread to the Middle East. It led to the peaceful or violent departure from power of longtime dictators in places like Egypt and Libya.