Phases
Economics
Allies
Events
Terms
100

The competition for military superiority.

What is the Arms Race?

100
The economic system based on private ownership and the free market.

What is Capitalism?

100

Early in the Cold War, America established this group for mutual protection.

What is NATO?

100

A term derived from Churchill's famous 1947 speech defining Cold War dynamics in Europe.

What is the "Iron Curtain"?

100
Nations that were technically independent, but reported to authorities in Moscow.
What is the Soviet Satellites?
200

The goal of the Truman Doctrine.

What is Containment?

200

The American program for funding national rebuilding and securing capitalism & democracy after WW2.

What is the Marshall Plan?

200

Early in the Cold War, Soviet Union established this arrangement for mutual protection.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200

The forced relocation of Chinese citizens to rural communities. (Considered by some to be Mao's biggest mistake)

What is the Great Leap Forward?

200
When an individual uses mass media, propaganda, or other methods to create an idealized, heroic, and at times worshipful image, often through unquestioning flattery and praise.
What is a Cult of Personality?
300
The period of danger and confrontation and the threat of nuclear war.
What is Brinksmanship?
300
A region with shared cross-border trade/employment/administrative collaboration.

What is a special economic zone?

300

This group in Afghanistan was originally supported by America against the Soviet Union.

Who are the mujahideen? 

300
The student protests against a Communist government that caused a global reaction.
What is Tiananmen Square?
300
A policy of forcing private resources into public ownership.
What is Collectivization?
400
The period in which tensions cooled.
What is detente?
400
Gorbachev called this leader's economic and political failures "stagnation".

Who was Leonid Brezhnev?

400

This group was organized at the time that the French were defeated in Vietnam. 

What is SEATO (the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)?

400

The end of the period of news/media suppression in the Soviet Union.

What is glasnost?

400
The executive committee of the communist party.
What is the politburo?
500

The event that ended Detente and began the last phase of the Cold War

What is the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

500

Soviet leader who implemented perestroika?

Who was Gorbachev? (Brezhnev proposed it so points for that answer too!)
500

The "Kitchen Table Debate" is an example of this Marxist-Leninist belief about cooperation/conflict with the West.

What is Peaceful Coexistence?

500

An unintended consequence caused by Khrushchev's policy of "de-Stalinization."

What is the Sino-Soviet Split?

500

The illegal news publications in Soviet states.

What is samizdat?

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