Leaders
This president said " Mr.Gorbachev tear down this wall"
Ronald Reagan
What was the name given to time period from 1946-1991.
Cold War
Economic system used by the Soviet Union
Communism
The main country we are learning about in this class!
Soviet Union
What year did World War Two end?
1945
This man took a strong stance against the Soviet Union, and was the main resistance leader in Afghanistan through out the 80s.
Osama Bin Laden
November 9th 1989 in Germany
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This document condemned the Soviet Union for threatening to invade Turkey, and Greece.
The Truman Doctrine
This country was the main opposition against the USSR.
United States of America
This president recently passed away, but he was in office from 1976-1980.
Jimmy Carter
Soviet Leader who introduced Perestroika, and Glasnost.
Mikhail Gorbachev
Crisis in the Caribbean in 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
This political system gives the power to the citizens in the country.
Democracy
Winston Churchill gave a speech in 1946 at Westminster college in Missouri which he said "An Iron curtain has descended over Europe." Which country was he from?
England
This musician preformed in the Soviet Union in 1987. (I showed a video of him smashing a piano)
Billy Joel
Who was the president when the Soviet Union fell?
Bill Clinton
Situation where 52 Americans were taken and held hostage in the Middle East.
Iran Hostage Situation
This policies name means "openness" in English.
Perestroika
Second largest country in communist bloc.
China
What is the name of the first satellite ever sent into space.
Sputnik
This Soviet leader served as the head of the communist state from 1964-1982
Leonid Brezhnev
What was the name of this civil war that occurred from 1917-1922? This war birthed a new communist country.
The government style that the Soviet Union operated under.
Totalitarianism
This country was split in half after World War Two.
Germany
What day and year did the Soviet Union dissolve?
Christmas 1991