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Soviet leader at the start of the Cold War

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Joseph Stalin

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What kind of leader is Mao Zedong

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Chinese Communist leader

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What kind of leader is Fidel Castro

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Cuban Communist leader

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What kind of leader is Ho Chi Minh

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Vietnamese Communist leader

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leader of Solidarity

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Lech Walesa

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Where did American- trained Cuban exiles tried to invade Cuba?

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Bay of Pigs

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The Soviets launched the first artificial satellite into Earth’s orbit in 1957. What was the name of the satellite?

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Sputnik I

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Allied leaders made agreements about how to divide Berlin after World War II during which conference?

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Yalta

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What was the Cold War “thaw” of the 1970s called?

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détente

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What was the name of the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its satellite countries in Eastern Europe?

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Warsaw Pact

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What body of the United Nations seeks to keep peace in the world and has five permanent members who have veto power over some decisions?

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Security Council

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What gave President Lyndon Johnson extensive authority to increase American involvement in the Vietnam War?

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Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

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What was the name of the first free trade union in a Communist country?

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Solidarity

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The initial invasion of South Korea by the North Koreans in June of 1950 drove the Allied troops back to what location?

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the Pusan Perimeter

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What was the name of the series of talks between the United States and the Soviet Union to reduce the number of nuclear weapons each held?

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SALT

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What plan allowed the United States to give billions of dollars in aid to rebuild post-World War II Europe to prevent the growth of Communism?

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Marshall Plan

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During which event did the United States blockade Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from reaching the island?

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Cuban Missile Crisis

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When the Soviets cut off access to West Berlin by land, the city was supplied by air for almost a year thanks to what event?

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Berlin Airlift

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What group was formed by the Western Allies and their partners in 1949 to face the growing Soviet threat?

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North Atlantic Treaty Organization

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the Communists defeated the Nationalists, who took refuge on the island of Taiwan

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China

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the Prague Spring of 1968 was crushed by the Soviet Union and four Warsaw Pact nations

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Czechoslovakia

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Who shot the American U-2 spy plane in 1960

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Soviet Union

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the Soviets were never able to take full control of the country due to American-backed Islamic rebels

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Afghanistan

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Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church gave strength to the people of what nation

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Poland

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the last president of the Soviet Union

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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the American military commander in the Korean War

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Douglas MacArthur

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the president of Egypt during the Suez crisis

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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the American president during the Cuban Missile Crisis

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John F. Kennedy

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the American president who first adopted the policy of containment

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Harry Truman

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The Amazon River can be found on which continent?

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South America

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The Great Lakes can be found on which continent?

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North America

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The islands of Trinidad and Tobago are off the coast of which country?

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Venezuela

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Angel Falls can be found on what continent?

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South America

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Where can Andes mountains be found

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West side of South America

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the largest freshwater lake in the world in terms of surface area

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Lake Superior

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What nation is Honduras

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South American nation

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What nation is Suriname

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Central American nation

38
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What nation is Greenland

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North American nation

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Where do North and South America meet?

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Isthmus of Panama

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Voodoo is a folk religion practiced by many people in the Caribbean, especially in which nation?

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Haiti

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Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, and Jamaica are part

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Caribbean Island

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Which country’s name means “The Savior”?

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El Salvador

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What is the official language of Brazil?

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Portuguese

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In addition to Aymara, what are the official languages of Peru? Select all that apply.

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Quechua
Spanish

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joined Mexico and the United States to form NAFTA

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Canada

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the region that includes Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador

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Central America

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a founding member of OPEC

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Venezuela

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the government fought the British over the Falkland Islands in 1982

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Argentina

49
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The Galapagos Islands in the Pacific Ocean are a part of what country?

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Ecuador

50
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What is the official language of Suriname?

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Dutch

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The island of Hispaniola is shared between Haiti and which other nation?

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the Dominican Republic

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Colonists in Latin America relied on which of the following to keep sugar plantations running?

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enslaved Africans

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The Gobi Desert can be found on which continent?

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Asia

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Which Latin American island was the only nation to gain independence from a successful slave uprising?

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Haiti

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The Great Rift System can be found on which continent?

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Africa

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The Great Barrier Reef can be found on which continent?

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Australia

57
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The Danube River can be found on which continent?

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Europe

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the longest river in Europe

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Volga River

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the tallest mountain in Africa

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Mount Kilimanjaro

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the longest lake in the world

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Lake Tanganyika

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the longest river in the world

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Nile River

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What continent is Morocco

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Africa

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What is the name of the location where Europe and Africa nearly touch between the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea?

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Strait of Gibraltar

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Asia and Africa touch at which location?

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Isthmus of Suez

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What ocean is Australia located

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Indian Ocean

66
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officially took over from the European Community when the Maastricht Treaty took effect

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European Union

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Great Leap Forward, Cultural Revolution

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China

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one of the Baltic Republics, formerly part of the U.S.S.R.

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Latvia

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apartheid was abolished there in the 1990s

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South Africa

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its members are the nations of Southeast Asia

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ASEAN

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Islam is the predominant religion of the nations of this region

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Middle East

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Some European nations what type of monarchy

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constitutional monarchies

73
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Which African nation is the world’s newest nation?

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South Sudan

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Who was an incredibly brutal Communist regime in Cambodia.

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Khmer Rouge

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the tallest mountain in the world

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Everest

76
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located in Africa, near the equator

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Congo River Basin

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forms part of the boundary the between Europe and Asia

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Ural Mountains

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the largest desert in the world

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Sahara

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What is the name of the Pacific region that stretches from Hawaii, to New Zealand, to Easter Island?

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the Polynesian Triangle

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During which Chinese dynasty was the Forbidden City built?

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Ming

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Timbuktu was a major center of trade, learning and art for which African Kingdom?

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Mali

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