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Freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from fear, and freedom from want.
What are the four freedoms?
Provided the intellectual framework for containment and first articulated the logic of containment in an eight-thousand-word telegram called the "Long Telegram."
Who is George F. Kennan?
The debate between Nixon and Khrushchev at the American Exhibition in Moscow’s Sokolniki Park in the summer of 1959.
The location of the United Nation's headquarters.
What is New York?
The ore found in Congo's Shinkolobwe mine that had strategic value.
What is uranium?
Khrushchev’s program to move the Soviet Union away from the political repression of the Stalinist-era.
What is de-Stalinization?
Who is Douglass MacArthur?
The failed invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961, in which Fidel Castro easily defeated a force of Cuban exiles backed by the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Gamal Abdel Nasser is an Arab nationalist and leader of this country's military government.
What is Egypt?
A thirty-five-nation summit on European security and cooperation that endorsed “the universal significance of human rights and fundamental freedoms.”
What is the Helsinki Final Act?
The logic that the United States only needed to threaten the deployment of nuclear weapons to achieve its goals.
What is nuclear deterrence?
The two people who signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)
Who are Nixon and Brezhnev?
The peaceful transfer of power in Czechoslovakia in 1989 from the Communist party to the democratically elected president and playwright Vaclav Havel.
What is the Velvet Revolution?
Truman's campaign to counter Soviet propaganda and demonstrate America's dedication to freedom.
What is the "Campaign of Truth"?
The paradoxical effects of one nation’s attempt to increase its own security that causes a rival to build up its defenses, leading in turn to an arms race that imperils the safety of both nations.
What is security dilemma?
The author of The Gulag Archipelago, which detailed his own experiences as well as interviews with hundreds of fellow camp survivors.
Who is Alexander Solzhenitsyn?
A peace treaty that included a cease-fire, a prisoner exchange, and a complete withdrawal of American troops, ending the Vietnam War.
What are the Paris Peace Accords?
What is Yugoslavia?
A 1956 science-fiction film that served as an allegory for the imagined legions of secret Communists “invading” American communities from within.
What is Invasion of the Body Snatchers?
The black-market system of favors and barter that thrived in the Soviet Union and Eastern bloc during the economic downturn of the 1970s and 1980s.
What is blat?
Communist China's first premier and foreign minister who acted as China’s bridge to the Non-Aligned Movement and helped usher in détente with the United States.
Who is Zhou En-lai?
Gorbachev stated that this incident served as a catylst to overhaul the Soviet political and economic system.
What is the Chernobyl disaster?
The location where in December 1979, 75,000 Soviet troops invaded to prevent the total collapse of the nation’s Marxist regime.
Where is Afghanistan?
Allegorical play by Arthur Miller, which invited Americans to see the parallels between Cold War anti-communist hysteria and the Salem witch trials.
What is The Crucible?