Cold War I
Which 2 countries competed economically and militarily during the Cold War?
USA & Russia
Arms Race
Rather than attempt to solve all of Russia's problems at once, Stalin created a series of what?
5-Year Plans
The 1986 nuclear explosion in the Ukraine occurred in what city?
Chernobyl
Government ownership of property and a lack of privatization are key principles of what type of government?
Communist
Identify 3 countries other than the US or USSR that were a part of the Cold War
Korea Afghanistan
Vietnam Turkey
Cuba Czechoslovakia
Nicaragua Hungary
Stalin's idea of collective farming was used by which leader of China 20 years later?
Mao Zedong
Who is the current Russian president?
Vladimir Putin
What did Winston Churchill call the dividing line of Europe, separating Communist countries from Democratic countries?
Iron Curtain
What agreement was signed by democratic nations of the world after WWI and was in place throughout the Cold War?
NATO
Which person led the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and preceded Stalin as the leader of Russia?
V.I. Lenin
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! Wager first!!!
Which Soviet leader created the political policies of Glasnost and Perestroika?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What type of economy exists under a Communist government?
Command Economy
What agreement was signed by the Communist nations of Eastern Europe following WWII and was in place during the Cold War?
Warsaw Pact
Stalin's policy of eliminating his political enemies was called what?
the Great Purges
What event(s) signified the end of the Cold War? (Name 1)
Destruction of the Berlin Wall
Dissolving of the USSR
Which document first put forth the idea of containment of Communism?
Truman Doctrine
What was the name of the first Soviet space satellite?
Sputnik I
Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill, and FDR met at what location in 1945 to decide the division of Germany post-WWI?
Who was the first freely elected president of Russia?
Boris Yeltsin