Leaders
Conflicts
Proxy Wars
Vocabulary
Red Scare
100

The leader of the Soviet Union who brought down the Berlin Wall.

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

100

These members resisted Communism and received some financial aid for doing so.

Who is NATO?

100

Soviet Premier who encouraged the Southern invasion of Korea.

Who was Joseph Stalin?
100
Don't touch it. These conflicts are ongoing. 

What are "hot wars"?

100

A series of trials that sought to expose supposed communists in the US government.

What is McCarthyism?

200

The Cuban President who was caught in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Fidel Castro?

200
An American promise to rebuild Europe following WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan?
200

The Soviet Union encouraged the Vietnamese to sign this agreement with the French--splitting the country into a communist North, and colonial South.

What is a partition?

200

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles could be fired with the press of a button--a method so simple, nobody dared use it.

What is deterrence?

200

Careful. Once one of them goes, they'll all fall down.

What is the Domino Theory?

300

This President was elected off of his campaign promise to "End the War" in Vietnam.

Who is Richard Nixon?

300

The solution to the blockade of Berlin.

What is the Berlin Airlift?
300

A civil war in this country made global news when the US & USSR got involved, kicking off the Cold War.

What is Greece?

300

The social and economic upheaval of the Soviet Union presented by Mr. Gorbachev.

What is perestroika?

300

Surveillance tactics used by governments to gain military or political information.

What is espionage?

400

The Soviet Premier who initiated the Space Race.

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

400

The Soviet Union's first venture into space.

What is Sputnik?

400

At the end of the day, this was a conflict between nationalism and imperialism.

What was the Vietnam War?
400

These countries were threatened by a Soviet military--forcing them to embrace communism.

What are mandates?

400

The secret service throughout the Soviet Union.

What is the KGB?

500

The US President who threatened nuclear warfare as a result of any Soviet Expansion.

Who is Dwight D Eisenhower?

500

The symbolic name for Germany's division of Europe.

What is the Iron Curtain?

500

Leader of the communist revolutionaries in French Indo-China.

Who is Ho Chi Minh?

500

Those who escaped from East Germany under the Berlin Wall.

What are refugees?

500

We saw an example of a single glove, but even taxidermied rats were used to communicate in this strategy.

What is a "dead drop"?

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