Government
This was a country made up of various Eurasian nations, including, but not limited to, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, and Lithuania. Playing a key role in the Cold War, it dissolved in 1991.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
The elimination of colonialism through the process of freeing a colony.
What is decolonization?
The competition between the United States and Soviet Union to be the first nation to achieve spaceflight.
What is the space race?
President of the United States during the Cuban Missile crisis who was assassinated in 1963.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
The practice of learning information to gain the upper hand often used in the cold war.
What is spying?
Founded in 1947, this U.S agency specializes in analyzing and collecting data on economic, military, and political affairs for the purpose of national security.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
The communist leader in revolutionary China during the 1920s-1960s. Initiated the Great Leap Forward and introduced communism to China.
Who was Mao Zedong?
What is the Iron Curtain?
Who was Franklin D. Roosevelt?
The philosophy of why nuclear war may not occur due to both countries having nuclear weapons. (Acronym and meaning of acronym required)
What was M.A.D., mutually assurred destruction?
The agreement made between the U.S.S.R. and its sattelite states to strengthen control and political ties.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
The physical and economic segregation in South Africa from 1948 to the early 1990's.
What is apartheid?
A war in southeast Asia to stop the spread of communism that the U.S. pulled out of after the guerrilla tactics of the enemy forced them out of the country.
What was the Vietnam War?
This person led India to independence through non-violence and civil marches.
Who was Mahatma Ghandi?
The conflict between the communist North Korea and capitalist South Korea. The United Nations aided the south during this time.
What was the Korean War?
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Former military officer, prime minister, and president of Egypt. Leading the revolution in 1952, he introduced various land reforms, as well as Egyptian self-government.
Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser?
The phenomenon in the U.S. during the cold war, led by Joseph McCarthey where any Senators and other prominant politicians were accused of being communists.
What was the red scare?
This was the first major meeting between Russia, the USA, and Great Britain during World War II where it was decided that they would open a second front in France.
What was the Tehran Conference?
The practice of backing smaller countries during wars to support your political ideology.
What are proxy wars?
The first president of Ghana. He founded Ghana's independence movement and helped Ghana transform into the state it is today.
Who was Kwame Nkrumah?
This was the cause of the Cuban Missile crisis and once solved led to a general de-escalation of the Cold War.
What were the close range missiles in Turkey and Ukraine?