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What was the structure that separated east Germany for west Germany
What is the Berlin Wall
100
They came to power during Afghanistan's long civil war
What is the Taliban
100
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits
What is containment
100
The Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China
What is Mao Zedong
100
n 1966, China’s Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government
What is the Cultural Revolution
200
Which country divide into 2 parts (east and west) during the Cold War
What is Germany
200
what is the holding of all property in common, actual ownership being ascribed to the community as a whole or to the state
What is Communism
200
In October 1962, an American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis
200
A Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999
What is Boris Yeltsin
200
Officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is a country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula
What is North Korea
300
What does NATO stand for
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
300
The instance of invading a country or region with an armed force
What is an invasion
300
On June 25, 1950, this War began when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south
What is the Korean Wars
300
The President of Russia since 7 May 2012. He previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012
What is Vladimir Putin
300
The People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1961
What is The Great Leap Forward
400
This is an imaginary line that Winston Churchill had said descended upon Europe
What is the Iron Curtain
400
President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
What is the Truman Doctrine
400
The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later
What is the Vietnam Wars
400
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953
What is Josef Stalin
400
AS landlocked country located in Central Asia and South Asia
What is Afghanistan
500
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations
What is the Warsaw Pact
500
This was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.
What is Glasnost
500
This blockade isolated this island from trading with other countries and to protect the U.S
What is the Berlin Blockade
500
Which leader wanted to reunify Korea under communist control?
What is Kim Il Sung
500
The purpose was to attempt to find a way to settle outstanding issues on the Korean peninsula and discuss the possibility of restoring peace in Indochina
What is Geneva Accords
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