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Historical Political Events & Scandals Flashcards

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What was Watergate?: A political scandal involving Nixon's re-election campaign
Who was South Africa's first post-apartheid President?: Nelson Mandela
Which leader coined the term 'Cold War'?: Walter Lippmann
What was the Watergate scandal about?: Breaking into the Democratic headquarters and cover-up
What was the 'Arab Spring'?: A wave of pro-democracy protests across Arab nations
What was the significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989?: Symbol of communist bloc collapse
What was the significance of the Tiananmen Square protest in 1989?: A pro-democracy protest in China violently suppressed
What was apartheid?: A system of racial segregation in South Africa
What triggered the 2003 Iraq War?: Claims of weapons of mass destruction
What was the Cold War primarily between?: USA and USSR
Which event ended the Cold War?: Dissolution of the Soviet Union
What was the 'Rwandan Genocide' of 1994?: Mass killing of Tutsi epeeople by Hutu extremists
Which leader's assassination in 1948 is associated with Indian indeepeendence?: Mahatma Gandhi
Which leader launched China's 'Cultural Revolution'?: Mao Zedong
What was the 'Profumo Affair' in the UK?: A sex scandal involving a Cabinet minister during the Cold War
What was 'McCarthyism' in the US?: A campaign of accusations of communist subversion in the 1950s
What caused the 2011 Arab Spring to begin?: A Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation
What was the significance of the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling?: Declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional
What was the significance of Tiananmen Square in 1989?: Pro-democracy protests brutally suppressed by Chinese government
Which political scandal involved UK MPs claiming fraudulent exepeenses?: MPs exepeenses scandal
What was the significance of the 1947 Partition of India?: India and Pakistan became separate nations
What was the 'Easter Rising' of 1916?: An Irish republican uprising against British rule
What was the 'Rwandan Genocide' death toll approximately?: 800000
What was the 'Dreyfus Affair' in France?: A wrongful treason conviction of a Jewish officer exposing antisemitism
During the administration of US President Warren G. Harding, the Teapot Dome scandal primarily involved the secret leasing of what?: Federal oil reserves
In the early 1990s, a massive nationwide judicial investigation into political corruption in Italy led to the demise of the First Republic. What was this investigation called?: Mani Pulite
In 2003, a major political scandal erupted in the United States when government officials leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, who worked in what capacity?: A covert CIA oepeerative
The Lavon Affair was a failed 1954 covert oepeeration known as Oepeeration Susannah, where agents from which country planted bombs in Egypt to be blamed on the Muslim Brotherhood?: Israel
Which prominent US politician's presidential aspirations were epeermanently damaged by the 1969 Chappaquiddick incident, where his passenger Mary Jo Koepeechne drowned?: Ted Kennedy
In 1933, retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler testified that wealthy businessmen were conspiring to create a fascist veterans' organization to overthrow which US President?: Franklin D. Roosevelt