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| South African head of the ANC; imprisoned for opposition to Apartheid; released in 1989; elected President of South Africa |
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| Attorney who became the spiritual leader of India |
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| Russian-born and US educated Prime Minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War |
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| Israeli Prime Minister who signed the Camp David Accord |
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| International organization dedicated to world peace, founded in San Francisco in 1945; headquartered in New York City |
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| Built in 1961 to halt the flood of refugees to West Berlin |
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| Country where the United States fought two wars, the second of which resulted in the capture and hanging of Saddam Hussein |
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| Method Joseph Stalin used in 1948 to try to take West Berlin |
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| Communist leader who took over China on October 1, 1949 |
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| Country where Golda Meir grew up and was educated |
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| "Queen of Hearts"; popular ex-wife of Britain's Prince Charles who was killed in a Paris traffic accident in 1997 |
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| The former South African policy of strict racial segregation |
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| Egyptian President who was assassinated for signing the Camp David Accord |
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| Leader of the Solidarity labor union of Gdansk shipyard workers who led the overthrow of Poland's Communist regime and became President |
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| Length of the Six Day War |
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| 1962 near-war which occurred after the United States discovered missiles in Cuba |
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| The 1948 Allied reaction to the Berlin Blockade; the delivery of supplies by fighter pilots |
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| Until his death, head of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
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| Terrorist group founded by Yasser Arafat to fight the state of Israel |
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| Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) |
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| German city; host to the 1972 Olympics where members of the Palestinian Black September terrorist group killed members of the Israeli wrestling and weightlifting teams |
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| Communist Cuban leader; Took over in 1959; became seriously ill in 2006 |
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| Communist who took over Vietnam |
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| Queen of Great Britain; ascended the throne in 1952 |
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| Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, and the West Bank of the Jordan River |
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| Arab territories taken by Israel during the 1967 Six Day War |
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| 1978 peace agreement between Israel and Egypt signed at Camp David Maryland |
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| Arabs who were forced off their land when it was sold to Jewish settlers and became the state of Israel |
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| The first artificial satellite; launched in 1957 by the USSR |
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| Succeeded Joseph Stalin as head of the Soviet Union in 1953 |
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| Denied access to Khruschev during his US visit |
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| Communist leader who instituted democratic reforms in the 1980s that eventually led to the fall of the Soviet Union |
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| Succeeded Mikhail Gorbachev after the Soviet Union fell |
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| Suceeded Boris Yeltsin after he retired in 2000 |
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| What the Allies did to Berlin during and after the post-World War II occupation |
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| Heir to the British throne; married and divorced Lady Diana Spencer; married Camilla Parker-Bowles; father of Prince William and Prince Harry |
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| What finally happened to Saddam Hussein |
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| Radical Islamic fundamentalist who sponsored the 9/11 attacks |
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| World Trade Center; Pentagon |
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| Buildings destroyed by highjacked jetliners on September 11, 2001 |
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| President of the United States during the 9/11 attacks and Operation Iraqi Freedom |
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