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Cold War Awesomeness
Impact of the Superpowers
100
A civil was in this country in 1946 contributed to tensions between the Soviet Union and Great Britain.
What is Greece?
100
U.S. fears about the spread of communism were increased when this nation turned Communist in 1949.
What is China?
100
This country, joining in the 1980s, was not an original member of NATO.
What is Spain?
100
This nation, (attacked on Sept. 1, 1939 to begin WWII) was a member of the Warsaw Pact?
What is Poland?
100
Stated that the U.S. would provide money to nations threatened by Communist expansion.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This plan was designed to restore the economic stability of European natinos after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
This refers to the U.S. invasion and attempt to overthrow the Cuban government.
What is Bay of Pigs?
200
When the Soviets launched this into space, fears stirred about the U.S. being behind in the production of missiles.
What is Sputnik?
200
This created a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
Founded in 1949, this was the Soviet Union's response to the Marshall Plan.
What is the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON)?
300
This nation experienced an economic miracle after WWII?
What is West Germany?
300
This communist leader initiated the "Prague Spring" with a series of reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968?
Who is Dubcek?
300
This was built in order to prevent East Germans from going into West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This communist nation remained independent of Soviet control.
What is Yugoslavia?
300
In political history, this term refers to improved relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
What is detente?
400
Russian President Vladimir Putin used military force to supress a rebellion in this state.
What is Chechnya?
400
This Russian word was used to describe the reform movement led by Gorbachev, meaning restructuring.
What is perestroika?
400
The policy that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if communism was threatened in another Communist nation was known as...
What is the Brezhnev Doctrine?
400
The detente phase of relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union ended with the Soviet invasion of this country.
What is Afghanistan?
400
When he stripped Kosovo of its autonomy in 1989, a brutal war broke out between Serbs and Albanians.
Who is Milosevic?
500
The Polish national trade union Solidarity was founded by...
Who is Lech Walesa?
500
One of the most serious problems facing Gorbachev's reforms...
What is the multiethnic republics?
500
Reforms began in Romania after______ was removed from power.
Who is Ceausescu?
500
After the war between Bosnia and Serbia, new tensions arose when Serbia refused to allow______ to continue to exist as an autonomous province.
What is Kosovo?
500
The Soviet leader whose policies of Glasnost and Perestroika encouraged the fall of Communism in the Eastern bloc was
Who is Gorbachev?
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