Important Leaders
Places People Talked About
Events, Groups, and Objects of Conflict
Terms of conflict
100
Premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
100
Nation that controls the Suez Canal
What is Egypt?
100
Seat of real political power in the Soviet Union.
What is the Communist Party?
100
Term that describes a government with complete control over its citizens.
What is totalitarian?
200
Man who ordered the land routes to Berlin closed
Who was Joseph Stalin?
200
Two nations that keep the Soviets from controlling the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
What are Greece and Turkey?
200
Soviet-built weapons whose discovery in Cuba caused a crisis in 1962.
What were Missiles?
300
President in 1965 who sent the marines into the Dominican Republic
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
300
Major Cold War antagonist with communist government
What was the Soviet Union?
300
Middle eastern waterway that the soviet union wanted to control
What was the Suez Canal?
400
Secretary of state under presidents Nixon and Ford
Who was Henry Kissinger?
400
Jewish nation created after World War II
What was Israel?
400
Defense organization formed by nine western European nations plus iceland, Canada, and the United States to stop the spread of communism.
What was the north Treaty Organization (or NATO)?
500
First communist leader of the Soviet Union
Who was Lenin?
500
City that is about three-fourths "free" although it is inside the communist section of Germany
What is Berlin?
500
Massive parade of soldiers and weapons that takes place in Moscow each year.
What is the May Day parade?
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