Cold War Basics
This was the conflict fought primarily through ideology and proxy wars rather than direct military confrontation.
What is the Cold War
These industrial workers formed the base of Bolshevik support.
Who are the Proletariat?
This reform introduced political openness and freedom of speech.
Answer: What is glasnost?
This Yugoslav leader founded the Non-Aligned Movement.
Answer: Who was Josip Broz Tito?
This type of power uses military or economic force.
Answer: What is hard power?
This mutual defense pact was led by the United States.
What is NATO?
These were the two sides in the Russian Revolution.
: Who were the Red Army and the White Army?
This reform restructured the Soviet economy toward limited market forces.
Answer: What is perestroika?
This war involved U.S. and UN forces backing South Korea while China supported North Korea.
Answer: What was the Korean War?
This geographic factor makes Russia seek access to year-round ports.
Warm water ports
This mutual defense pact was created by the USSR in 1955
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This was the campaign of mass executions carried out by Bolshevik secret police
Answer: What was the Red Terror?
This number represents how many republics made up the USSR.
15
This term describes the division of a multinational state into smaller ethnic states.
Answer: What is Balkanization?
This country is strategically important to Russia because it acts as a buffer and provides access to the Black Sea.
Answer: What is Ukraine?
This term describes a country that is nominally independent but controlled by another nation
What is a satellite state?
This was the policy where farms were seized and run by the government
Answer: What was collectivization?
These movements inside Soviet republics helped cause the collapse of the USSR.
Answer: What are nationalist movements?
This Serbian leader pushed for Serbian dominance, contributing to Yugoslavia’s breakup.
Answer: Who was Slobodan Milosevic?
This country is strategically important to Russia because it acts as a buffer and provides access to the Black Sea
Answer: What is Ukraine?
This concept describes a region over which a nation has political, cultural, or military influence.
What is a sphere of influence?
This leader resigned on December 25, 1991, marking the end of the Soviet Union.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev?
This was one unintended result of Gorbachev’s reforms.
Answer: What was increased instability or independence movements?
Name two Cold War proxy wars.
Answer: Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Congo, or Greece (any two).
This country was part of the Eastern Bloc.
Answer: Poland (also acceptable: Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia).