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These two countries were the main rivals during the Cold War
What are the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR)
This U.S. President faced off against Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This wall, built in 1961, physically divided East and West Berlin until its fall in 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the boundary dividing Europe in Western and Soviet spheres of influence.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The 1950s and 60s competition between the U.S. and USSR to achieve firsts in space exploration was known as this.
What is the Space Race?
This economic system practiced by the United States emphasized private ownership and free markets.
What is capitalism?
This Soviet leader is known for his policies of glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) that helped end the Cold War.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This Southeast Asian country was divided at the 17th parallel and fought a war in which the U.S. supported the South against the communist North.
What is Vietnam?
The organization, formed in 1955, was the Soviet-led military alliance that countered NATO during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This practice of building backyard bomb shelters became common in American suburbs during the height of nuclear fears.
What is fallout shelter construction?
The policy, announced by President Truman in 1947, promised American support to countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This plan was an American initiative enacted in 1948 to provide foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred $13.3 billion in economic recover programs.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This Asian peninsula remains divided today at the 38th parallel, a division that began during the Cold War.
What is Korea?
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This 1956 uprising in Hungary was crushed when Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest to restore communist control.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
This civil defense film taught American schoolchildren to hide under their desks in case of nuclear attack.
What is "Duck and Cover"?
This 1962 event brought the world closest to nuclear war when Soviet missiles were discovered in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Soviet dictator extended Soviet controls to include a belt of eastern European states. He was ruthless, destroyed individual freedom and failed to promote individual prosperity.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This Caribbean Island nation, just 90 miles from Florida, became a communist ally of the Soviet Union after Fidel Castro's revolution.
What is Cuba?
This 1968 period of political liberalization in Czechoslovakia was ended by a Warsaw Pact invasion.
What is the Prague Spring?
The name of the political and economic rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union following World War II?
What is the Cold War?
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This country was the first to develop and test a hydrogen bomb.
What is the Soviet Union?
This American diplomat developed the policy of "containment" that guided U.S. Cold War strategy for decades.
Who is George Kennan?
This country was widely considered to have "won" the Cold War, primarily due to the collapse of another country in 1991. This collapse left the country as the sole superpower, solidifying its ideological and military dominance.
What is the United States?
This Polish labor union, formed in 1980 at the Gdansk Shipyard, challenged communist rule and helped bring about its eventual collapse.
What is Solidarity?
This 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was boycotted by the Soviet Union and most European Bloc countries in response to the U.S. boycott of the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
What are the 1984 Summer Olympics?