Turned the USSR into a global superpower and fought alongside the allies in WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
The country in which the United States fought against communism between 1955 and 1975.
What is Vietnam?
100
Policy of Gorbachev in pursuing greater talks and diplomacy with the United States.
What is Glasnost?
100
First President of Russia after Gorbachev, and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
100
First President during the Cold War, followed strict containment policies to protect against Domino Theory.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
Last Premier of the Soviet Union, known for his more liberal reforms.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
200
The country in which the United States fought against communism between 1950 and 1953 with no peace treaty formally signed.
What is Korea?
200
Policy of the United States to stop the further spread of Communism in non-communist countries.
What is Containment?
200
Final year of the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
What is 1991?
200
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
Who is John F, Kennedy?
300
Known for De-Stalinization and leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
Operation by the United States to provide supplies to the blockaded people of Berlin, Germany.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
300
Policy first announced congress on March 12, 1947 involving financial aid to Greece and Turkey to protect against communism.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
300
Reforms in Russia to restructure the communist economy with limited free market.
What is Peristroika?
300
President from 1963 to 1969 and saw the United States assist in the Vietnam War on the side of the South.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
400
Beginner of the Afghan-Soviet War and leader at the end of the Vietnam War.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
400
The hottest point of the Cold War where Soviet nuclear missiles were found to be stationed just over 100 miles from the United States and a blockade of Cuba ensued.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
Policy of Dwight D. Eisenhower immediately after his election in 1952 emphasizing reliance on nuclear weapons as a deterrent while also balancing military spending with financial resources.
What is the New Look Policy
400
First country to declare independence from the Soviet Union on December 26, 1991.
What is Lithuania?
400
Significantly expanded the US military and pursued the creation of a nuclear missile shield to prevent Mutually Assured Destruction in the case of a nuclear war.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
Head of the KGB before succeeding Brezhnev as leader of the USSR in 1982.
Who is Yuri Andropov?
500
The spy plane of the United States Shot down by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960.
What is The U-2 Spy Plane?
500
Policy described by US Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles as "The ability to get to the verge without getting into the war is the necessary art."
What is Brinkmanship?
500
Failed attempt by hard-line members of the Communist Party to seize back control from Gorbachev, due to his increased liberal reforms and his decentralization of the central government in respect to the many Soviet satellite nations.
What is The August Coup?
500
Single term president from 1989 to 1993 during the collapse and separation of the Soviet Union.