The Cold War was caused by the destruction of Europe and the existence of two remaining ______________ with vastly different _______________.
What is superpowers and ideologies?
100
The first source of Cold War conflict was what to do with the territorial possessions of this defeated empire.
What is Japan?
100
This World War Two conference stipulated the terms for dividing Germany into four occupied zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
100
This man led a communist revolution that led to the removal of Fulgencio Batista.
Who is Castro?
100
The Czechoslovakian uprising was an indication the Eastern Bloc nations were growing tired of Soviet Influence.
What is Prague Spring?
200
Post-WWII tension increased when the Soviet Army maintained a presence in this region of the world...
What is Eastern Europe?
200
This peninsula was the scene of a brutal three war between communists from the north and US supported factions from the south during the 1950's.
What is Korea?
200
The Berlin Crisis and Airlift of 1948-49 arose due to these circumstances
What are prosperity and currency manipulation in the West that threatened Soviet influence, leading them to put a blockade around Berlin cutting of aid, which prompted the US to airlift in supplies to avoid it.
200
Castro alienated the United States when after taking power he ___________ major industries once controlled by US interests.
What is nationalized?
200
The arrival of this man as leader in the USSR led to reforms and ultimately the end of communism in Russia.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
Westminster College in Fulton, MO is where Winston Churchill made this famous speech.
What is the Iron Curtain Speech?
300
This battle marked the end of French colonial control in French Indo-China or Vietnam.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
300
The Soviet Union's detonation of an atomic bomb set off this phenomenon that dominated many aspects of the Cold War era
What is the arms race?
300
Bay of Pigs and its significance
What is a covert attempt by the United States to use Cuban exiles to remove Castro. The plot was foiled, the US humiliated and many think this compelled the USSR to place offensive missiles there?
300
The promotion of a more free society, to allow more dissent and free expression...a key to ending authoritarian government.
What is Glasnost?
400
The Truman Doctrine set the stage for America to become this type of nation in terms of its foreign policy
What is interventionist?
400
Once the US committed ground troops to Vietnam, they faced different groups of enemies, the North Vietnamese Army and these communist insurgents in South Vietnam.
What is the Viet Cong?
400
One of the factors that led to the construction of the Berlin Wall was the evolution of this rhyming phenomenon where intellectuals fled to the west for a greater chance at prosperity.
What is "the Brain Drain"?
400
The measures through which the Cuban Missile Crisis ended were...
What is a US blockade to prevent the placement of further missiles on the island followed by back-door diplomacy in which the USSR took the missiles out of Cuba and USA took missiles out of Turkey?
400
Perestroika
What is the policy that began to end the command economy in the Soviet Union and begin the transition to a free market economy?
500
The nature of the Cold War caused nations to seek military assistance in the outbreak of war, leading to the development of these two alliances.
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
500
US expansion of the Vietnam War into other parts of Asia led to a genocide in ______________ at the hands of a group known as the ___________ and their leader, __________.
What Cambodia, Khmer Rouge, Pol Pot
500
This is a name given to the collection of nations under Soviet influence throughout the Cold War era.
What is satellite states?
500
Salvador Allende was a socialist leader and victim of a US aided coup to place Augusto Pinochet in power in this South American country.
What is Chile?
500
Mikhail Prokhorov is an example of a person from this class individuals that profited greatly from the transition to the free market in Russia.