Russia during the Cold War
The first leader of the Soviet Union after WWII.
What is Joseph Stalin
At this 1945 conference Stalin met with Roosevelt and Churchill to discuss post war Europe.
What is the Yalta conference?
This country was the colonial power in Vietnam before the First Indochina War.
What is France?
The Name of the first artificial satellite in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
Stolen established Soviet control over this group of countries, turning them into satellite states.
What is eastern Europe?
This man was the leader of the communist North in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
This man was the first person launched into space by the Soviets.
What is Yuri Gagarin?
Stalin reacted to the merging of western controlled German zones by initiating this 1948 event.
What is the Berlin blockade?
This man was the president of South Vietnam until his assassination.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
The Soviet Union supported the north in this war on the Korean Peninsula.
What is the Korean war?
In the Cold War, Stalin‘s refusal to allow this city to be integrated into West Germany in 1948 led to this.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This event sparked the involvement of the U.S. in the Vietnam war during an alleged attack on U.S. destroyer.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
The Soviets and Americans race to build these nuclear weapons.
What are intercontinental ballistic misslies?
Stalin‘s purges and large amounts of secret police helped him control during his rule but lead to the executions or imprisonments of millions including people in his military.
What is the Red Amry?
This operation involved the U.S. military strategy to cut off supplies from the North Vietnam to the South including massive air strikes.
What is Operation Rolling Thunder?