Cold War Origins
This 1945 conference led to the division of Germany into occupation zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
U.S. policy to stop communism from spreading.
What is containment?
Khrushchev's reform movement after Stalin's death.
What is de-Stalinization?
The USSR’s last leader who introduced reforms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Eastern Bloc country legalized political parties and held elections in 1990.
What is the USSR (or Soviet Union)?
Churchill warned of growing Soviet control in his 1946 speech using this metaphor.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This 1947 doctrine aimed to aid Greece and Turkey against communist threats.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
1956 uprising in this country was inspired by Poland’s reforms.
What is Hungary?
These two reform policies aimed to restructure the Soviet economy and promote openness.
What are perestroika and glasnost?
In 1990, these two Germanys were politically and economically unified.
What are East Germany and West Germany?
Stalin’s 1948 move to cut off access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
Economic program giving $13 billion to Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This 1957 Soviet satellite launched the space race.
What is Sputnik?
U.S. President who labeled the USSR an “evil empire.”
Who is Ronald Reagan?
Massive 1989 protests in this city led to the collapse of Czechoslovak communism.
What is Prague?
Western response to Stalin's move in 1948 that flew in 1.5 million tons of supplies over nearly a year.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This military alliance was the Soviet response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This wall was built in 1961 to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Berlin Wall fell in this year, marking a major Cold War turning point.
What is 1989?
This playwright-turned-president led post-communist Czechoslovakia.
Who is Vaclav Havel?
In 1949, Germany officially split into these two states.
What are the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic?
1975 agreement that pledged cooperation and human rights among 35 nations.
What is the Helsinki Agreement?
This 1962 standoff nearly caused nuclear war between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This country’s communist dictator and his wife were executed in 1989 after a military tribunal found them guilty of crimes against the state, including genocide and economic sabotage.
What is Romania?
On January 1, 1993, this country peacefully split into two republics.
What is Czechoslovakia?