Stopping Communism
The 1947 American policy promising support to countries threatened by communism.
Truman Doctrine
The military alliance created by the USSR in 1955.
Warsaw Pact
The 1979 revolution that replaced the Shah with an Islamic government.
Iranian Revolution
The massacre in 1905 that damaged the Tsar’s reputation.
Bloody Sunday
The US economic aid programme designed to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
Marshall Plan
The 1956 uprising crushed by Soviet troops.
Hungarian Uprising
Which individual played the most important role in leading opposition to the Shah during the Iranian Revolution of 1979?
Ayatollah Khomeini
The group led by Lenin that took power in November 1917.
Bolsheviks
The war where the USA fought under the UN against communist North Korea.
Korean War
The barrier built in 1961 to stop East Germans fleeing to the West.
Berlin Wall
The leader whose decision to claim Kuwait as Iraq’s “19th province” triggered international military intervention in 1990.
Saddam Hussein
Lenin’s economic policy that allowed some private trade after the Civil War.
New Economic Policy (NEP)
The failed 1961 invasion attempt supported by the USA to overthrow Castro.
Bay of Pigs invasion
The policy stating the USSR could intervene in communist countries to maintain control.
Brezhnev Doctrine
The 1991 military operation led by the USA to remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait.
Operation Desert Storm
Stalin’s policy of combining farms into large state-controlled units.
Collectivisation
Underground army fighting against French rule in the 1950s and then government of South Vietnam and its US allies in Vietnam War.
Viet Cong/Viet Minh
The Polish trade union movement that challenged communist rule in the 1980s.
Solidarity
One major reason why the Gulf region was important to world powers.
Oil supplies / strategic location
The series of trials and arrests used by Stalin to remove opposition in the 1930s.
Great Purges