Common Communists
Successor to the Soviet Union in 1922, this infamously paranoid man is known as one of the bloodiest leaders in human history.
Who is Josef Stalin?
This was constructed to divide the city of Berlin between its eastern and western occupation zones.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Created as a buffer zone between the Soviet Union and the rest of the Western nations, these puppet nations served as Stalin's tool to spread Communism.
What are Satellite States?
What is Communism?
This term refers to the period in history where the United States and Soviet Union confronted each other through indirect means from 1945-1991.
What is the Cold War?
After his return from exile in Switzerland, he became leader of the Bolsheviks Revolution in 1917, this man dominated the Russian Revolution until his death in 1922.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
This period in the 1930's was Stalin's effort to completely eliminate all forms of competition and protest against his government. In total, this period executed at least 750,000 people at a minimum.
What is the Great Purge?
With the detonation of the first Soviet nuclear bomb in 1949, the United States and Soviet Union would begin to relentlessly compete in acquiring better and more powerful nuclear weapons during this period.
What is the (Nuclear) Arms Race?
This term refers to the efforts immediately after Stalin's death where the Soviet Union began to thoroughly remove his imagery and rely less on oppressive internal policy.
What is de-Stalinization?
The current leader of the Russian Federation since 1999.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This man continued the legacy of lessening the oppressive and dominating policies of the Soviet Union, and contributed to the end of the Cold War
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
These facilities were created to house the millions of prisoners under Stalin's regime. Most were in very remote locations like Siberia, and untold numbers of people died there.
What are gulags?
This Soviet alliance was created to compete against that of the one created by the Western nations. This included countries like Bulgaria, Hungary, and Poland.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This period began with the launch of the satellite Sputnik by the Soviet Union and began a contest to see which nation had better space technology, ending with the United States landing on the Moon.
What is the Space Race?
The first man in space. Sent up by the Soviet Union in 1961.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This leader took great steps after the death of his predecessor to erase the propaganda and imagery of him. He openly stated his dislike for their policies and wished to take the Soviet Union in a different direction.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
What is the 5-Year-Plan?
In response to the fall of China to communism, this method of dealing with global communism saw it best to isolate and quarantine communist nations to prevent the spread of the ideology.
What is the Containment Policy?
This organization, created in 1949, was originally created as a way to balanced the threat created by the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
This organization, formed immediately after the end of World War II, was meant to replace the League of Nations and fulfill its primary objective of international cooperation.
What is the United Nations?
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, there were efforts to bring democratic representation in Russia. As a result, this man became the first president of the new Russian Federation.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
This system attempts to create a near-fanatical worship of a leader. In Stalin's case, he did this through heavy use of propaganda, censorship, and state-controlled media.
What is a Cult of Personality?
As a result of the blockade of the city, the United States conducted this effort to supply hundreds of tons of goods to demonstrate solidarity and opposition against Communist advances in Europe.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Literally meaning, "Openness" and "Restructuring" in Russian, these two policies were efforts to reform a previously oppressive and economically unstable Soviet Union. (Both Terms are required)
What is/are Glasnost and Perestroika?
What is Oil and (Natural) Gas?