World War II
The leader of Germany during World War II.
Who was Adolph Hitler?
This country was the adversary of the Soviet Unions during the Cold War.
What was the United States?
The European country from whom Cuba gained their independence.
What is Spain?
This city was split by the Allied Powers after World War II.
What is Berlin?
The leader of Cuba during the Cold War?
Who is Fidel Castro?
The political and economic system adopted by Russia after the Russian Revolution.
What is communism?
This was the attempt to build more dangerous weapons and military equipment than other countries.
What was the arms race?
The leader backed by United States money who banned elections and became the dictator of Cuba.
Who is Batista?
This allied country took control of most of Eastern Europe after World War II.
What was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics?
The country Cuba turned to after the United States' failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
What is the Soviet Union or the USSR?
The leader of Russia during World War II.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
This major world event happened before the Cold War.
What was World War II?
The young lawyer who wanted better education and health care for the Cuban people.
Who is Fidel Castro?
These two cities were created by the Berlin Wall.
What were East and West Berlin.
What the Soviet Union placed in Cuba to help them against the United States.
What were missiles?
The name given to the United Kingdom, France, The United States, and Russia during World War II.
Who are the Allied Powers
The time period where there was a threat of war with use of nuclear weapons.
What was the Cold War.
The political system introduced to Cuba by Castro.
What is Communism?
This allied country did NOT control a part of Berlin after World War II.
What is Italy?
The action the United States took in response to discovering missiles in Cuba.
Place a naval "quarantine" which was really a blockade around Cuba.
The winning side of World War II.
Who are the Allied Powers?
The imaginary wall separating communist and non-communist countries in Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
The attack by the United States on Cuba intended to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This European country had Berlin as its capital.
What is Germany?
The settlement made between Robert Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was Russian had to remove the missiles from Cuba and the United States had to remove missiles from Italy and Turkey.