Europe
Misc.
Proxy Wars
Leaders
Asia
100
What separated East Berlin and West Berlin?
Berlin Wall
100
Soviet Union's government; government turned to in order to adapt to a countries goals and needs
Communism
100
A crisis that involved the USSR sending missiles to Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
100
Leader of USSR after Lenin; "Man of Steel"
Stalin
100
An economic and social campaign by Communist China; an attempt to make China more modern
Great Leap Forward
200
How did the U.S. give goods to the West Berliners when they were blocked off from the U.S.?
Berlin Airlift
200
A theory that states that if one country falls to Communism, more countries will fall with it
Domino Theory
200
A war in Korea between Communists and non-Communists
Korean War
200
Chinese Communist revolutionary leader
Mao Zedong
200
The Northern part of a country that was separated by the 38th parallel
North Korea
300
What symbolizes the separation of Communist Eastern Europe and non-Communist Western Europe?
Iron Curtain
300
A promise from the U.S. that it will aid countries if threatened by Communism
Truman Doctrine
300
A conflict that ended with the unification of Vietnam under Communism
Vietnam War
300
Communist leader of Cuba during the Cold War
Castro
300
Where another civil war took place; this time the Soviets assisted
Afghanistan
400
An alliance/treaty between the Communist countries in Eastern Europe.
Warsaw Pact
400
A policy of open discussion of political and social issues; instituted by Gorbachev
Glasnost
400
USSR surrounded Berlin, keeping the U.S. from supporting the West Berliners and both sides of Berlin from escaping
Berlin Blockade
400
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis; Assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald
JFK
500
An alliance/treaty that unifies nations to contain Communism
NATO
500
A political organization and army in South Vietnam and Cambodia that fought the United States and South Vietnamese governments during the Vietnam War
Viet Cong
500
The prevention of Communism spreading
Containment
500
Decided to drop the atomic bomb on Japan
Truman
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