The name of the political group that took power after the Tsar stepped down.
Bolsheviks
100
The President responsible for resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK
100
East Germany was behind an invisible barrier called the...
Iron Curtain
100
Kennedy successfully persuaded the USSR to stop delivery of nuclear missiles to one of our close Caribbean neighbors in what is known as the...
The Cuban Missile Crisis
100
The type of economy associated with communism.
Command Economy
200
Russia's legislative body (under a Tsarist government).
Duma
200
Harsh, oppressive leader of the USSR.
Joseph Stalin
200
America's answer to Stalin's blockade of Berlin.
The Berlin Airlift
200
This wave of hysterical fear of communism swept over America during the 1950s.
the Red Scare or McCarthyism
200
The type of economy associated with capitalism.
Market Economy
300
State owned farms.
Collectives
300
The leader who decided to use nuclear weapons against Japan.
President Harry S Truman
300
The USSR made East Germany and other Eastern European nations (like Poland & Ukraine)into...
satellite nations
300
This government organization was created in response to the USSR's launch of the first satellite, Sputnik.
NASA
300
The belief that no one citizen should own any goods or land privately.
Collective ownership
400
The official communist party religion that was promoted by Stalin.
Atheism
400
American Secretary of State who pledged to use U.S. dollars to rebuild Western Europe
George C. Marshall
400
Stalin responded to the created of NATO by creating the ...
Warsaw Pact
400
Name of Kennedy's embarrassing failure to remove Fidel Castro from power.
Bay of Pigs Incident
400
This economic ideal allows for the creation of social classes.
Capitalism
500
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
500
Communist Leader of China.
Mao Zedong
500
Stalin responded to England, France, and America's consolidation of West Germany by...
blockading Berlin.
500
This military leader was in charge of both the US occupation of Japan and the UN defense of Korea. He was discharged by Truman after threatening to nuke China.