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Formed after WW2 and seen as new and improved version of the League of Nations

What is the UN?

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His death in 1953 did not end the cold war, but was greeted with quiet relief by some inside the USSR and loudly by a great many in the USA.
Who is Josef Stalin?
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Cut off from supply lines from 1948 to the Spring of 1949, this city survived by getting food and fuel shipments through a massive airlift.

What is Berlin?

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"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, a _____________ has descended across the continent behind which lie all the ancient capitals of central and eastern Europe..."
What is the 'Iron Curtain'?
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A war which is fought between two sides indirectly, by use of another country and their own conflict. 

What is a proxy war?

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The theory that prevented an outbreak of nuclear war.

Mutally Assured Destruction

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Inherited the Presidency after the death of Roosevelt, he didn't get along very well with Comrade Stalin.

Who is Harry Truman?

200
Probably the closest the world came to a nuclear WWIII.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200

"Berlin is the testicles of the West"

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?

200
City used as an 'escape hatch' by many in Eastern Europe, especially East Germans, from 1947 to 1961.
What is Berlin or West Berlin?
300
The GDR.
What is East Germany, or German Democratic Republic?
300
Lost his political power position after WWII but remained a strongly influential figure and gave "Iron Curtain" speech in USA in 1946.
Who is Winston Churchill?
300

A major events that took place on Sunday 13 August 1961.

What is the construction of the Berlin Wall?

300

"General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate.
    Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate!
    Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! "

Who is Ronald Reagan?

300
"If we let South Vietnam 'fall' to communism, where will it stop?...think what may happen to all the other little nations over there."
What is the domino theory?
400
What began officially in 1921 and ended officially in 1991?
What is the USSR? Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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The man who introduced the policies of Perestroika and Glasnost in the USSR.

Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?

400

The two major peace conferences between the USA, USSR, GB and France following World War 2.

What are Yalta and Potsdam?

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In the summer of 1947, Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov denounced a generous new initiative of the United States to loan money to war-damaged European nations as "the latest adventure of American imperialism."
What is the Marshall Plan, or European Recovery Program?
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The National Defense Education Act (1957) which suddenly increased federal spending on high school science programs was a direct result of this.
What is Sputnik?
500
NATO
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
500

He was America's Ambassador to the USSR during and after WWII and considered father of "containment" strategy. He wrote a particularly long telegram...

Who is George Kennan?

500

In the capital city of an Eastern Bloc country there were peaceful protests and attempts to introduce reform policies that went against the strict socialist policies of the USSR

What is the Prague Spring?
500

The Cold War was a “deadly struggle for total destruction of rival power”

Who is George Kennan?

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Direct military interventions by the United States in Turkey and Greece were announced in 1947 in the context of this larger statement of future American intentions all over the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine?