Winston Churchill used this metaphor, was the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc an the West prior to the decline of communism
What is the Iron Curtain
100
A political theory derived from Karl Marx
What is Communism
100
A confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the "hottest" periods of the Cold War.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
100
Russian politician who has served as Russian's president (200-2008) and prime minister
What is Putin
100
Was an effort made by the communist party of china under the leadership of Mao Zedong to transform china into a society capable of competing with other industrialized nations.
What is Great Leap Forward
200
Was the supply of vital necessities to West Berlin by air transport primarily under US auspices.
What is Berlin Airlift
200
A fundamentalist Islamic militia in Afghanistan
What is Taliban
200
Called Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the US, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of North Korea.
What is Korean Wars
200
The last president of the Soviet Union; general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party
What is Gorbachev
200
republic on northern Korean peninsula on east of Asia, bounded on the north by china
What is North Korea
300
Known from an abbreviation, was an international organization composed of the U, Canada, Britain, and a number of European countries.
What is NATO
300
The theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
What is Domino Theory
300
Was a result of US policy during the Cold War, a period when Americans believed that Communism, the political system in the Soviet Union and China
What is Vietnam Wars
300
President of the Russian republic who criticized the slow pace of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.
What is Yeltsin
300
Republic in south-central Asia, china to the northeast
What is Afghanistan
400
A military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. Organized in 1955 in answer to NATO
What is Warsaw Pact
400
The policy or practice of restricting or reforming the economic and political system.
What is Perestroika
400
An act or means of sealing off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving
What is blockade (berlin, cuba)
400
President of the US (1981-1989) republican politician, also the governor of California
What is Reagan
400
On Indochina, the conference produced a set of these documents. These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by Viet Minh, and southern to be governed by the State of Vietnam
What is Geneva Accords
500
Barrier constructed in 1961 to separate East Berlin from West Berlin and East Germany
What is Berlin Wall
500
The policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
What is Glasnost
500
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits.
What is containment
500
33rd president of the US (1945-1953) He approved the dropping of the two atomic bombs on Japan
What is Truman
500
A chaotic mass movement in the People's Republic of china. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966.