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This man was the leader of Russia and the USSR during WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This country was the centre of a disagreement between the USA and the USSR in October 1962.
What is Cuba?
A war that involved Vietnamese, Laotians, Cambodians, and Americans (as well as New Zealanders and Australians).
What is the Vietnam War?
This organisation brought Eastern European nations together in a military alliance.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
The policy created by President Truman whereby the USA would stop the spread of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This man was the leader of the USA at the end of WWII.
Who was Harry S. Truman?
This country saw the first major involvement of United Nations soldiers after WWII.
What is Korea?
A conference held in Russia towards the end of WWII to decide what to do with Germany.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This military organisation is comprised mainly of Western European countries, but certain others are allowed to join.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation)?
The policy whereby the USA would supply aid to any country that asked for it.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This man was the main communist leader China.
Who was Mao Zedong?
This country was the major buffer between Eastern and Western Europe, for the Soviets.
What is East Germany?
The process by which the city of Berlin was blockaded by the Soviets and the Allies had to fly supplies in.
What is the Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift?
This organisation helped the USA overthrow various governments and undermine Soviet influence around the world.
What is the CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)?
This was the name of the very first man made satellite to be launched into space.
What is Sputnik?
This man was the leader of Cuba for most of the Cold War.
Who was Fidel Castro?
Check Point Charlie is famously associated with this city.
What is Berlin?
This object was put up in 1961 and improvements were steadily made to it over the course of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The group of youths who terrorized the Chinese countryside.
This came about due to a difference in beliefs over communism between the Russians and China.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split?
He was the first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
This country indirectly helped start the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Turkey?
This disastrous invasion of Cuba was backed by the CIA and run by Cuban exiles.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This organisation was created by the Soviets to fight off the perceived "Dollar Diplomacy" of the USA.
What is the Communist Information Bureau (Cominform)?
The saying or idea that all parties involved can destroy each other.
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?