The leader of the Communist Party from 1924 to 1952.
What is Joseph Stalin?
100
The concrete wall diving East Germany from West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
The policy, announced by US President Eisenhower, of opposing the threat of communist influence in the Middle East
What is Eisenhower Doctrine?
100
The key differences between USSR and Chinese Communism.
What is ideological differences?
100
A method the USSR used to gain increasing political control over Eastern Europe by gaining territory a small piece at a time.
What is salami tactics
200
Criticism of the leadership within the party, prohibited by Lenin.
What is factionalism?
200
When Stalin completely blockaded West Berlin from Western Forces that controlled the area.
What is the Berlin Crisis of 1948?
200
This country was the cornerstone of Soviet policy in the Middle East
What is Egypt?
200
This was the first treaty between the USSR and China
What is Sino-Soviet Treaty of Alliance ?
200
An anti-Communist crusade that reached its height in the 1950s
What is McCarthyism?
300
Succeeded the Cheka as the Soviet state security force. In turn it became the NKVD and then the KGB.
What is OGPU?
300
The day Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the USSR and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
What is December 25th, 1991?
300
The Soviet involvement in this war was to prevent Sadat from turning to the US
What is the October War (1973)?
300
This event, occurring in 1969, proved to be the lowest point in Sino-Soviet relations due to the intense competition between both countries to be the leading Communist nation.
What is Sino-Soviet border war?
300
Khrushchev's policy that capitalism and Communism should accept the continuing existence rather than using force to destroy each other.
What is peaceful co-existence?
400
Between 1928-32, local officials and managers falsified production figures in order to meet Stalin's requirement for this plan
What is The First Five-Year Plan?
400
The month and year the Berlin Wall was torn down, signified an end to the Cold War.
What is November 1989?
400
When the Soviet Union passed Syria false intelligence claiming that there were large amounts of Israeli troops massing at the border.
What is the Six-Day War?
400
Before this Soviet leader could visit China, students began protesting in Tiannmen Square
Who is Gorbachev?
400
This treaty followed the Cuban Missile Crisis and restricted the number of land-and seas-based ballistic missiles.
What is Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (1968)?
500
Under Brezhnev, the Soviets spent more resources on this which resulted in a period of decline and stagnation
What is foreign policy?
500
The date that East and West Germany reunited.
What is October 3rd, 1990?
500
The Egyptian leader that led to the disintegration of relations with the USSR in favor of a stronger relationship with the US.
Who is Anwar Sadat?
500
China attempted to form closer ties with this country after losing its influence over Vietnam to the Soviets
What is Cambodia?
500
Literally means "a relaxation of tension"; a period during the Cold War in which Soviet-American tensions were relaxed.