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42 Cards in this Set
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What is the term for the confrontation that took place from 1945 to the end of the U.S.S.R. between the Western-capitalist bloc (US-led), and Eastern-communist bloc (led by the Soviet Union)?
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Cold War |
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What year the Berlin Wall fell?
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1989 |
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What year did Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania become independent and the U.S.S.R. disintegrated to form the C.I.S. (Commonwealth of Independent States)?
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1991 |
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What scandal was discovered by two journalists from the Washington Post about the Republican Party spying the Democratic Party’s headquarters that forced President Richard Nixon to resign in 1974?
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Watergate |
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What is the term for Mao Zedong or Mao Tse-tung’s thoughts, who adapted Marxism-Leninism to the specific Chinese circumstances?
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Maoism |
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What guerrilla was formed during the 1960s in southern Vietnam to fight Diêm’s government, supported by the US?
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Vietcong |
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What year ended World War II?
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1945 |
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What imaginary line divided Europe in two zones: capitalist and communist?
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Iron curtain
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What imaginary line divided Asia in two zones: capitalist and communist?
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After World War II, Germany was divided into 4 zones: American, British, French and Soviet. The first three joined together forming the ...
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F.R.G.: Federal Republic of Germany
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The Soviet zone, meanwhile, was transformed into the ...
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G.D.R.: German Democratic Republic
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What country had a civil war between communists and monarchists in 1947?
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Greece
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In 1949 Chinese war between Communists and nationalists. Who led the communist side?
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Mao Zedong or MaoTse-tung
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What island gave refuge to the nationalist side after being defeated in the Chinese Civil War?
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Formosa: Taiwan
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In 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea, starting a 3-year war. Nowadays, which one is a communist country?
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What Egyptian president nationalized the Suez Canal, facing Britain, France and Israel?
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Nasser
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What communist military alliance ended the Hungarian open-minded attempt in 1956 and the Prague Spring in 1968?
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Warsaw Pact
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Who succeeded Stalin as head of the Soviet Union and proclaimed peaceful coexistence with the United States?
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Who was the leader of the Cuban revolution in 1959 with Ernesto "Che" Guevara?
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Fidel Castro
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Where did the U.S.S.R. install some missile launch ramps threatening international peace during the Cold War?
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What conference were the I.M.F. and the W.B. created after World War II?
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Who was the American civil rights leader who was killed after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964?
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Martin Luther King
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Who radicalized the African American struggle assumed by groups like the Black Panthers and also died murdered?
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Malcom X |
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Who was a pioneer of the Beat Generation with his work "On the Road"characterized by rebellion and counterculture?
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Jack Kerouac
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Who leaded the Polish Solidarity movement that question the Soviet authority in his country?
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Lech Waleza
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What guerrilla overthrew Anastasio Somoza’s dictatorship in 1979 and an unprecedented solidarity movement around the world began?
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Sandinista National Liberation Front
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What country did Khmer Rouge party leader Pol Pot commit genocide by killing 2 million people?
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Cambodia
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What American president was assassinated in Dallas in 1963?
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J.F.K. (JohnFitzgerald Kennedy)
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What organization was created to defend human rights and democracy in America, but became a vehicle of political control by the US?
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O.A.S.: Organization of American States
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What Communist persecution was carried out in the US by Senator McCarthy and the House Un-American Activities Committee?
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In the mid-1920s, what Indonesian city held a conference that brought together Asian and African main countries to condemn racial discrimination and proclaim the right of all peoples to independence?
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Bandung |
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What is the term for the new economic model controlled by rich countries’ multinationals through political interference financing coups or supporting destabilizing guerrillas?
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Neocolonialism
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What country Indonesia became independent?
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What state was created in the Middle East starting a conflict against Palestine in 1948 that lasts until today?
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Israel |
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What movement emerged in the 1960s opposed to Western influence reinforces the sense of Islamic identity in the Maghreb?
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Pan-Arabism |
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What country Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa and Madagascar became independent?
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United Kingdom |
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What country Algeria, Morocco, Mauritania, Mali, Niger and Ivory Coast became independent?
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France |
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What country became independent Libya, Ethiopia and Somalia?
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Italy |
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What are the current names of Burma, Southern and Northern Rhodesia?
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Myanmar, Zambia and Zimbabwe
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What country was invaded by the U.S.S.R. in 1979 under the pretext of supporting the socialist government against rebel groups?
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Afghanistan
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What Soviet leader in the 1980s drove an open-minded program of reforms and encouraged the Westernization of his country?
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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What year Boris Yeltsin ordered the dissolution of the U.S.S.R. (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) and its replacement by the C.I.S. (Commonwealth of Independent States)?
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1991 |
