The two great powers that remained after world war 11 were
What is The United states and the Soviet Union
100
A nation that is stronger than other powerful nations is known as a s___________________________
What is superpower
100
How long did the Cold war cast a shadow over the world?
What is 40 years
100
what does NATO stand for?
What is North Atlantic treaty organization
100
What pact did the soviet Union lead in eastern Europe?
What is The Warsaw Pact
200
The United states led in western or eastern Europe
What is western Europe
200
What is the the line between between the democratic west and communist east referred to as?
What is the iron curtain.....
200
Which city beginning with B was the key focus of Cold war tensions
What is Berlin
200
What is the name given to the wall that separated western Germany and communist eastern Germany
What is The Berlin Wall
200
Name two countries that revolted over Soviet domination
What is East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
300
A blossoming of freedom of expression and limited democracy in Hungary introduced by Alexander Dubcek came to be known as the _________________Spring
What is Prague spring
300
what was one of the most terrifying aspects of the Cold war?
What is nuclear weapons
300
The result of a race between United states and Soviet Union to match each others weapons was balance of ____________ in which each side knew that the other side would itself be destroyed if it launched its weapons.
What is terror
300
What is the name given to talks where two sides met to reduce the threat of nuclear war?
What is disarmament talks. SALT stands for Strategic Arms limitation Talks
300
What does ABM`s stand for
What is Anti ballistic missiles
400
What treaty,(NPT) was signed in 1968
What is The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
400
who began the Cuban revolution
What is Fidel Castro
400
in command economies, who makes most economic decisions
What is Government beureaus
400
Which US president demanded that the soviet Union remove nuclear missiles from Cuba?
Kennedy
400
What was Americas basic policy towards communist countries known as (begins with c)
What is containment
500
Is the United states economy a market economy or a command economy
Market....in market economies consumers and producers make decisions whereas in a command economy the government makes the decisions.
500
What is the definition of detente?
What is A relaxation of tensions
500
What is the vocab word for value systems and beliefs?
What is ideology
500
The soviet union and its allies were often known as the soviet_____________
What is bloc.
500
Who took over from Stalin as leader of the soviet Union