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| Spain's chief of state until 1975 |
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| Former U.N. secretary-general elected president of Austria in 1986 |
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| New German capital, moved from Bonn in 1991 |
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| Underwater vehicle route that links France and Britain |
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| the Channel Tunnel (the "Chunnel") |
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| Conservative British prime minister from 1979 to 1990 |
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| A shaky peace plan of the 1990s aimed to end "the troubles" in this country. |
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| French leader who challenged the U.S. role in Western Europe |
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| Until 1990, "One Nation, Two States" |
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| German chancellor who moved toward closer relations with the Eastern bloc in the 1970s |
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| West Germany granted automatic citizenship to the citizens of this country. |
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| Labour Party leader elected British prime minister in 1997 |
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| French socialists' program for major industries |
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| Spain's new ruler as of 1975 |
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| Spanish separatists who repeatedly demanded self-rule |
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| the Basques (or Catalonians) |
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| Britain fought this country for the Falkland Islands in 1982. |
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| Treaty for European unification signed in 1991 |
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| Socialists defeated the Gaullists to elect this president in 1981. |
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| Portugal's dictator from 1932 to 1968 |
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| Belgium suffers from divisions between these two groups. |
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| French and Flemish-speaking people |
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| Socialist leader of Sweden shot on the street in 1986 |
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| Economic union of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg |
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| President Kennedy's "army" of overseas volunteers |
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| Confrontation between the United States and U.S.S.R. in the Caribbean in 1962 |
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| The U.S. war in Southeast Asia in the 1960s and 1970s |
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| U.S.-led war in the Mideast in 1991 |
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| Revolutionaries of this nation took U.S. embassy workers hostage. |
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| Iranian leader supported by the United States |
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| Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit these two nations in 1972. |
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| China and the Soviet Union |
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| The United States attacked this Taliban-led country in 2001 in response to a massive terrorist |
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| Failed U.S.-backed attempt by Cuban refugees to invade their homeland in 1961 |
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| Jimmy Carter worked to solve a dispute with this Central American country over a waterway. |
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| President who established normal diplomatic relations with China in 1979 |
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| President Carter arranged peace meetings between these warring Middle East nations. |
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| The United States supported rebels in this Central American country in the 1980s. |
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| The United States supported this Central American government against rebels in the 1980s. |
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| Central American country invaded by the United States in 1989 |
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| President Johnson sent U.S. marines to this island nation in 1965. |
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| Site of captured U.S. embassy in the Middle East |
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| U.S. policy of aid to Mideast countries, announced in 1957 |
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| Terrorist bombs killed Americans at military posts in this country in 1995. |
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| The United States fought troops of this country in Grenada in 1983. |
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| The economic slowdowns of the 1950s and early 1970s |
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| The main domestic concern of the mid- and late 1960s |
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| Black leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner killed in 1968 |
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| Violence that broke out in U.S. cities in 1967, and in Los Angeles in 1992 |
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| Widespread protests among these people started at Berkeley in 1964. |
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| Brown v. Board of Education banned this practice. |
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| Father-and-son U.S. presidents |
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| George H. W. and George W. Bush |
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| Black leader shot to death in Harlem in 1965 |
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| U.S. president impeached by the House in 1998 |
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| Frightening events at places like Columbine High School |
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| The United States set up a homeland security office in 2001 in response to this threat. |
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| Man who was elected president by a landslide in 1980 |
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| President Johnson's domestic program |
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| Person who got the most popular votes for U.S. president in 2000 |
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| Buildings destroyed in New York City terrorist attack on September 11, 2001 |
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| the World Trade Center towers |
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| U.S. presidental candidate slain in 1968 |
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| The major political scandal of the 1970s |
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| The worst episode of domestic terrorism, in 1995 |
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| the Oklahoma City bombing (Timothy McVeigh) |
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| New voting age set by the 26th Amendment in 1971 |
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| Man who became U.S. president in 1974 without having been elected to the post |
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| The only two Democrats elected president from 1968 through 1992 |
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| Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton |
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| The only U.S. president to resign from office |
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| U.S. senator who claimed to find communist conspiracies everywhere |
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| Loose organization of former British colonies |
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| the British Commonwealth of Nations |
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| Canadian province with a strong separatist movement |
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| Official language of Quebec province from 1974 to 1979 |
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| This civic duty is compulsory in Australia at age 18 |
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| U.S.-Canadian 2,400 mile waterway from the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean |
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| the Saint Lawrence Seaway |
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| The main advantage of belonging to the Commonwealth |
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| favorable trade agreements |
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| the Yukon and the Northwest Territory |
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| French-Canadian prime minister from 1968 to 1979 and 1980 to 1984 |
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| The British Parliament no longer has to approve any Canadian changes in this. |
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| the Canadian constitution |
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| Different party that won the Canadian elections of 1984 |
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| the conservative (Progressive Conservative) party |
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| Liberal prime minister of Canada elected in 1993 |
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| Governing Australian party from 1983 to 1996 |
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| Port calls of these U.S. ships sparked a U.S.-New Zealand crisis. |
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| nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed vessels |
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| New Zealand party that held office from 1984 to 1990 |
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| Self-governing homeland of Canada's Inuit, created in 1999 |
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| Act of 1931 - recognized Canada, Australia, New Zealand, S. Africa as completely independent |
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| the Statute of Westminster |
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| Number of Canadian provinces |
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| Number of Australian states |
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| Title of Australia's official head of state |
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| the (British) governor-general |
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| Alliance of the United States, Australia, and New Zealand |
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| Agreement recognizing Quebec as a "distinct society" that failed in 1990 |
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