Term for countries controlled by the Soviet Union.
What are Soviet satellites.
100
President of the United States when the USSR collapsed.
Who is Ronald Reagan.
100
Process from 1954-1964 where purges were denounced, political prisoners were freed, and artists and intellectuals had more freedom in the Soviet Union.
What is de-Stalinization.
200
Part of Germany that was occupied by Soviet Union.
What is East Germany.
200
Country that came to the aid of North Korea.
What is China.
200
Competition to strengthen armed forces and weapon systems.
What is the Arms Race.
200
First president of Russia.
Who is Boris Yeltsin.
200
Alliance between the USSR and Eastern European countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
300
Built to keep East Germans from escaping, it was twenty-six miles long and fifteen feet high.
What is the Berlin Wall.
300
Site of 1954 French loss in Indochina.
What is Battle of Dien Bien Phu.
300
Meaning "restructuring," a policy moving from a Communist economy to capitalism.
What is perestroika.
300
One of the Soviet Republics that declared independence in 1991.
What are Ukraine, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan.
300
Also known as the German Democratic Republic.
What is East Germany.
400
This began when the USSR cut off all land access to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift.
400
Guerillas in South Vietnam who fought against Ngo Dinh Diem.
Who are the Viet Cong.
400
A deliberate and systematic destruction of a specific ethnic group.
What is genocide.
400
Name two Eastern European countries other than the Soviet Union that dissolved after 1990.
What are Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. East and West Germany united. They did not dissolve.
400
Long-time leader of Yugoslavia who died in 1980.
Who is Josip Broz Tito.
500
In 1968, Soviet and allied troops invaded this country and took control from its leader, Alexander Dubcek.
What is Czechoslovakia.
500
1968 offensive launched by the Viet Cong against the United States in South Vietnam.
What is Tet Offensive.
500
The easing of strained political relations.
What is detente.
500
Year East and West Germany reunited under Chancellor Helmut Kohl.