Dates
People
Events
Places
What happened?
100
1961
When was the Berlin Wall built?
100
Vladimir Lenin
Who was the leader of the Bolsheviks who established the first communist government of the world?
100
Peaceful citizens were shot outside the palace of the Czar.
What was Bloody Sunday?
100
South America
Where did Darwin travel when he saw the animal that inspired him to develop his theory of evolution and creation?
100
Tension between communism and democracy that resulted in mistrust, hatred, and periods actual violence.
What is the Cold War?
200
1953
When did the Korean War end?
200
Declared the policy that the U.S. would provide aid to any free country being invaded by an oppressor.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
A fight in Asia between communism and democracy involving mainly the Soviet Union and the U.S.A.
What is the Korean War?
200
The 38th Parallel
Where did the US and Soviet Union divide North and South Korea?
200
The United States' response to Stalin's Blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
January 1905
When was Bloody Sunday?
300
Russian peasants and workers
Who were the Bolsheviks?
300
Cement wall, mine fields, pokey things, trip wires, electric wires, machine guns, soft dirt, barbed wire, guard dogs
What types of barriers were part of the Berlin Wall?
300
The five current communist countries.
What are Cuba, China, Laos, Vietnam and North Korea?
300
China gave military support to the Soviet Union.
How was China involved in the Korean War?
400
Feb. 1905
When did the ruling of Russian Czars end?
400
Persecuted and killed thousands of his own people and truly carried out the violence and control of communism in Russia.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
400
United Nations
What is the name of group formed by 55 countries in 1945 in an attempt to keep world peace and prevent WWIII?
400
A guarded location permitting cars and people in and out of West Berlin,also the location of a Soviet/US tank face off.
What is Checkpoint Charlie?
400
MacCarther was fired.
What was the result of General MacCarther's idea to bomb the North Koreans?
500
1848 and 1859
When were the Communist Manifesto and the Origin Of Species written?
500
The Chinese man who led the peasants in a revolution to bring Marxist Communism to China.
Who is Mao-Tse Tung?
500
Stalin/USSR attempt to cut off all supplies to West Berlin, forcing them to join the communist side. It failed.
What was the Berlin Blockade?
500
The Capitol of South Korea
What is Seoul?
500
The personal limitations of citizens of a communist government.
What are: no private ownership, no group gatherings, no outside travel, no free speech, no religious freedom
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