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40 Cards in this Set
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What was the official title of Reagan's Star Wars plan of 1983? |
SDI |
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Where did the Carnation Revolution take place in 1974? |
Portugal |
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Who was released from prison after 27 years in 1990? |
Nelson Mandela |
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Slovenia and Croatia declared their independence from which country in 1992? |
Yugoslagia |
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Which dictator died on the 20th November 1975? |
Franco |
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Who became prime minister of Britain in May 1979? |
Thatcher
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Who became POTUS in January 1993? |
Bill Clinton |
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What was the name of the NATO military game that almost provoked nuclear war in 1983? |
Able Archer |
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In which year did President Nixon resign? |
1974 |
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Which war ended in 1988 after one million deaths? |
Iran-Iraq |
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Where did Gorbachev and Reagan meet in October 1986? |
Reykjavik |
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With which country was the solidarity movement associated? |
Poland |
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In which year did Czechoslovakia break up in the velvet divorce? |
1993 |
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When did Spain and Portugal join the European Community? |
1986 |
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Who became the 41st POTUS in 1989? |
George HW Bush |
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Which former head of the KGB became Soviet leader in November 1982? |
Yuri Andropov |
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Where were the Boycotted Olympics of 1980 held? |
Moscow |
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Who announced the World Wide Web project in 1991? |
Tim-Berners-Lee |
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Dissidents in whoch country were associated with Carter 77? |
Czechoslovakia |
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What did Soviets shoot down in September 1983? |
Korean airliner |
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In which year was the Maastricht Treaty signed? |
1992 |
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Who became the first prime minister of independent Zimbabwe in April 1980? |
Mugabe |
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Who became the 264th pope in 1978? |
John Paul II |
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where were famous accords on Security and Coopration held in 1975? |
Helsinki |
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Where did the Chinese communist party government crush dissident student protests in june 1989? |
Beijing |
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Who became the prime minister of Spain in 1982? |
González |
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Where did the USA invade in October 1983? |
Grenada |
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Who became South Africa's first black president? |
Nelson Mandela |
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In which year was Germany reunified? |
1990 |
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In which year did Gorbachev become leader of the USSR? |
1985 |
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What is the name of the 1995 agreement which makes internal EU travel easier? |
Schengen |
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Who became POTUS in January 1977? |
Jimmy Carter |
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Where was the Candle Demonstration of March 1988? |
Bratislava |
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Who became the socialist minister of Spain in 1982? |
González |
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In which year was the Chernobyl nuclear disaster? |
1986 |
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Which country joined the European Community in January 1981? |
Greece |
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Who was the Romanian leader executed in december 1989? |
Ceausescu |
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Who became president of the Czech Republic in January 1993? |
Vaclav Havel |
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Where did US planes bomb in April 1986? |
Libya |
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In whoch year did Bill Gates found Microsoft? |
1975 |
