US Presidents
Russian Leaders
Treaties
Eastern Europe
Misc.
100
He was the president who carried out the Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
He was the Russian president who succeeded Boris Yeltsin.
Who is Vladimir Putin?
100
This was a military alliance among Western Nations.
What is NATO?
100
This was built to prevent East Germans from defecting to West Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
This term refers to the improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the 1970s.
What is detente?
200
He was the president who cut funding to welfare programs.
Who was President Ronald Reagan?
200
He was the Soviet leader who promoted the growth of heavy industry over consumer goods after World War II
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
This was the military alliance between the USSR and Eastern European nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
This country remained independent of Soviet control.
What is Yugoslavia?
200
This policy was adopted to stop the spread of communism.
What is the policy of containment?
300
He was the president who was caught up in the Watergate scandal.
Who is President Richard Nixon?
300
He was the Soviet leader who built the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
This was the Soviet response to America's Marshall Plan?
What is COMECON?
300
This man was the leader of the Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia in 1968.
Who is Alexander Dubeck?
300
This province voted NOT to secede from Canada in 1995.
What is Quebec?
400
He was the president who saw economic revival during his term, but was charged with presidential misconduct.
Who is President Bill Clinton?
400
He was the Soviet leader who supported intervention if communism was threatened.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
400
This was an alliance formed to prevent communism from spreading to Asia.
What is SEATO?
400
Serbia refused to allow this area to continue to exist as an autonomous province.
What is Kosovo?
400
This country fell to communism in 1949.
What is China?
500
During his presidency, the US experienced high inflation and a drop in living standards.
Who is President Jimmy Carter?
500
He was the Soviet leader who wanted to bring economic and political reforms to the USSR.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
500
This was an alliance formed to prevent communism from spreading to the Middle East.
What is CENTO?
500
After this man was removed from power in Romania, reforms were able to begin.
Who is Nicoale Ceausescu?
500
This region of the world was vulnerable to fall to communism based on the domino theory.
What is Southeast Asia?
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