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Cold War Vocab 2
Miscellaneous
100
Oppressive Soviet leader responsible for millions of deaths.
What is Joseph Stalin
100
Which nation, divided at the 38th Parallel, did the United States enter as an exercise of their containment policy.
What is Korea
100
"openness" encouraged the free exchange of ideas in the Soviet Union
What is glasnost
100
Policy of reducing Cold War tensions
What is detente
100
Who was the Communist leader who lead the Cuban Revolution...he aligned himself with the USSR.
What is Fidel Castro
200
Considered the father of the Russian Revolution. My death ignited an epic power struggle for control of the USSR.
What is Vladimir Lenin.
200
This nation attempted to establish a more democratic government in 1956....this was quickly squelched by Soviet Troops.
What is Hungary.
200
Wealthy farmers who lost their private property when Stalin's policy of collectivization took effect.
What is Kulaks
200
The appearance that a nation was willing to go to war, even nuclear war if necessary....giant game of "Chicken"
What is brinkmanship
200
Name the treaty signed by the US and Soviet Union that sought to reduce and destroy and intermediate nuclear weapons.
What is INF Treaty
300
US President who embraced detente. First President to visit communist China.
What is Richard Nixon.
300
During the Cuban Missile Crisis the USSR promised to remove weapons from Cuba if the United States removed theirs from this country.
What is Turkey
300
A Soviet controlled country in Eastern Europe that was used to expand and PROTECT communism
What is Satellite Nations
300
Written by Karl Marx....outlined his plans for a proletariat revolution.
What is The Communist Manifesto
300
After the USSR rejected the Marshall plan, they came up with one of their own...what was it called?
What is Molotov Plan
400
Gorbachev's most vocal opponent in the latter years of the USSR. First popularly elected President of the Russian federation.
What is Boris Yeltsin
400
Which city, the capital of Germany, was divided into four sectors at the end of WWII?
What is Berlin
400
This concept promoted a new world social order...encouraged the proletariat to rise up against the bourgeoisie.
What is Marxism
400
Gorbachev's policy that allowed for multi-candidate elections.
What is democritization
400
Which communist nation, with six major ethnic groups, was embroiled in Civil War following the death of communist leader Josep Tito?
What is Yugoslavia
500
US President who asked Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall....also proposed the Star Wars program
What is Ronald Reagan
500
Which nation did the Soviet Union invade in 1979...The US aided the mujahideen, the USSR's opposition.
What is Afghanistan
500
Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union.
What is perestroika
500
How did the the US and Great Britain respond to the Soviet blockade on West Berlin?
What is the Berlin Airlift.
500
How did the US initially respond when they learned that the Soviet Union had placed weapons in Cuba?
What is a naval blockade
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