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This country and its capital was divided by the Allied Powers by the end of World War II. This division was a symbol of the division between two world superpowers.
What is Berlin, Germany?
The United States, Canada, and ten European countries made an alliance against the Soviet Union. It still exists to this day, with 29 members.
What is N.A.T.O.?
This communist leader used the policy of perestroika to reform the Soviet Union. He was the last leader of the USSR before it crumbled in 1991.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
These were two cities that were destroyed by the atomic bomb near the end of WWII.
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This policy in Russia (meaning "openness") was one of several policies that led to the end the Soviet Union.
What is glasnost?
This communist country is the closest to the United States. Soviets installed missiles there and nearly started a nuclear war, a crisis.
What is Cuba?
On October 24, 1945, countries such as Great Britain and France, along with other non-European countries including the US, formed a new organization that was an improvement over the League of Nations.
What is the United Nations?
37th U.S. president in 1969, during the Cold War. He was president during the Vietnam War. He was nearly impeached.
Who is Richard Nixon?
During this event of World War II, Stalin in Russia had forced millions of Russians to be starved and killed.
What is the Great Purge?
This major proxy war was an example of the containment policy, even though it didn't succeed.
What is the Vietnam War?
The U.S. is one of two world's superpowers. It's rival superpower is on the eastern side of the world.
What is the Soviet Union/ U.S.S.R.?
On May 14, 1955, the Soviet Union formed a treaty with several eastern European countries in Poland to counter N.A.T.O. It has been dissolved on July 1, 1991.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
40th and the oldest U.S. president until Trump. He was at the Berlin Wall and participated in tearing it down when the Cold War was almost over.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
After World War II, many European countries had formed the United Nations, which included the U.S. Before the U.N., there was a previous organization after World War I, which ultimately failed and caused World War II.
What is the League of Nations?
The Soviet Union planned to spread communism all around the world, while the U.S. wanted to stop them, which led up to this policy made by Truman.
What is the containment policy?
This country was one of two proxy wars between communism and capitalism. It is now divided into two countries at the 38th Parallel, known as the DMZ.
What is Korea?
In the Korean War, the U.N. sided with capitalist South Korea while this country joined communist North Korea.
What is China?
Under this 33rd president, he ordered the creation and the dropping of atomic bombs during World War II, which kick started an arms race. He was also president during the Korean War.
Who was Harry Truman?
Colonies of the warring countries in WWII demanded independence after they participated in fighting against the Axis Powers because of the rise of this.
What is nationalism?
The U.S.S.R. had a failing economy, so Gorbachev and other Soviet politicians tried to fix their economy. They describe it with this Russian word meaning "to reform".
What is perestroika?
This place is where Stalin, Churchill, and FDR had the infamous conference which unofficially started the Cold War.
What is Yalta?
Canada, the U.S., and Mexico all became a part of this trade organization.
What is NAFTA (North American Free Trade Agreement)?
During the Korean War, this U.S. president, once a general during World War II, called an armistice with North Korea, making the border at the 38th Parallel.
Who was Dwight Eisenhower?
The "Big Three" of the Allies after World War II had attended this important meeting.
What is the Yalta Conference?
The Soviets were able to transport nuclear weapons to this Caribbean country, which is the closest communist country to the U.S. When the Soviets did this, it nearly sparked a nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?