What did the Truman Doctrine require of the United States?
Containment of Communism
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What USSR controlled country was located outside the traditional Iron Curtain?
Albana
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What are the two major proxy wars?
Korean War, Vietnam
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What are the 3 most known Soviet leaders?
Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev
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What reforms were put into place at the end of the Soviet Union?
Perestroika and Glasnost
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What was the Western Bloc?
Democratic countries, opposite of the Eastern Bloc
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What are the Berlin Wall border countries within the USSR?
East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria.
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What was the starting date of the Korean War?
June 25th, 1950
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What general was fired for insubordination by Truman?
Douglas MacArthur
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What year was the Soviet Union formed?
1922
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How many US casualties were sustained during the Korean War?
36 thousand
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What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
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What parallel was the Korean War started on?
38th Parallel
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Who said "We will bury you"?
Khrushchev
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What date was the USSR dissolved?
December 26th, 1991
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What is the military alliance between the Western Bloc members?
NATO
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What was the date of the Sputnik launch?
October 4th, 1957
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What Communist revolutionary had a city in Vietnam named after him?
Ho Chi Minh
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What was the final leader of the USSR?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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What year did Khrushchev take power?
1953
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"It will be done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade." Who said this and what were they referring to?
JFK, making it to the moon
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Who were the Big 3 at Yalta?
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
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How many years did the Vietnam war last?
20
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How many Presidents did we go through during the Cold War?
9
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What is a banned concept in Mr. Carlson's classroom?