What nation faced a genocide in which the Communist leader Pol Pot killed over 25% of the population in this nation?
The Cambodian Genocide
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What was the killing of over 20 million "enemies of the state" or "bad communists" by Joseph Stalin in the USSR before WWII?
The Great Purge
10
What ethnic group was targeted by the Hutu in Rwanda after the Hutu president's plane was shot down?
The Tutsi
10
What group was target by the Ottoman Empire before the end of WWI in an effort to get them out of the area that would become modern day Turkey?
Armenians
15
What nation was split into 7 smaller republics that ultimately resulted in Muslims and Croats being attacked by Bosnian Serbs?
Former Yugoslavia
15
What was passed by the UN that gave all people living in member countries certain rights?
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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What two nations were a large focus of American rebuilding efforts after WWII?
German and Japan
10
After WWII, what two large military alliances formed and which was led by the US and USSR?
NATO- US
Warsaw Pact- USSR
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What nation was split into democratic west and communist east after WWII?
Germany
10
What was Winston Churchill's metaphor about the ideological split of Europe into communist east and democratic west?
The Iron Curtain
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What was the US's plan to rebuild the economies of many nation after WWII in an effort to deter them from communism after WWII?
The Marshall Plan
10
What were held in Europe after WWII to determine the guilt of those who participated in the Holocaust and what type of Germans were targeted in these trials?
Nuremberg Trials; High-ranking Nazi officials
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What long conflict was beginning after WWII that split the world into "East" and "West" and what two superpowers led each side?
The Cold War with the US (West) vs. the USSR (East)
