Cold War Leaders
Started Glasnost and Perestroika (Openness and Rebuilding)
Mikhail Gorbachev
The wall that separated East and West Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
Alliance between the US and most of Western Europe
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
The way the Cuban Missile Crisis started
The USSR placed nuclear missiles in Cuba
This war started shortly after the First Indochinese war, and is often grouped with it
What is the Vietnam War?
President of America during Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The year that East and West Germany reunited
What is 1991?
The reason for the Warsaw Pact being formed
West Germany was integrated into NATO; the USSR wanted stronger control over the Eastern Bloc.
This country was holding USSR-made missiles
Cuba
This was a guerilla war fought between the Soviet army and the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
First Leader of the Communist Party of Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The US president who famously gave the "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Albania left this alliance in 1968
The Warsaw Pact
An outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Name one)
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty; Hot Line was created; Missiles were removed from Cuba and Turkey; "Thawed" relations between US and USSR.
The first battle of the Cold War, ended with a tie
What is the Korean War?
Starter of the Great Leap Forward
Who is Mao Zedong?
The massive operation to transport supplies to West Berlin
What is The Berlin Airlift?
This movement was started by "Third-World" Countries
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
This Soviet Statesman was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis and attempted to reduce US-Soviet Tensions through a serious of agreements
Nikita Khrushchev
This period of social, political and military upheaval occurred in the Republic of the Congo during the 1960s
What is the Congo Crisis?
The US-backed president of South Vietnam
Ngo Dinh Diem
The secret police that ran East Germany
What is the Stasi?
The Economic Plan that was put in place by the USSR to help the Eastern Bloc and to combat the US's economic plan
What is Comecon?
The person who prevented all-out nuclear war
Who is Vasili Arkhipov?
This Proxy War was fought between Isreal and Egypt, which heightened tensions between the US and the Soviet Union
What is the Yom Kippur War?