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Superpowers Face Off
Cold War Divides the World
Cold War Thaws
Collapse of the Soviet Union
Changes in Eastern Europe
100
This conference is the event that leads to the decision to split Germany into occupied zones.
What is the Yalta Conference?
100
Nations typically unstable and non-aligned.
What is the Third World?
100
This man becomes the leader of the USSR after Stalin dies in 1953.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
100
The first and last elected president of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
100
This process brought East and West together again.
What is reunification?
200
Nations controlled by the Soviet Union while maintaining 'independent' governments.
What are the satellite nations?
200
The willingness to go to the brink of war.
What is Brinkmanship?
200
These countries tried to obtain some kind of independence from the Soviet Union in the 50s and 60s.
What are Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
200
This policy introduced to the Soviet Union in 1985 promoted openness.
What is Glasnost?
200
This country breaks into two after the fall of the Soviet Union.
What is Czechoslovakia?
300
Organization formed to help maintain world wide peace.
What is the United Nations?
300
Led by Fidel Castro, this revolution led to the only communist country beyond the Iron Curtain.
What is the Cuban Revolution?
300
These presidents supported brinkmanship policies.
Who is Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson?
300
These states had been controlled for 50 years when they began fighting for independence.
What are the Baltic States?
300
This republic breaks into 6 major ethnic groups.
What is Yugoslavia?
400
This country was the first to send a satellite into space.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
This president battled with the USSR over the location of missiles off the coast of the United States.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
400
This policy became prominent during Nixon's presidency.
What is detente?
400
This man becomes the first elected president of the Russian Federation while Mikhail Gorbachev remains President of the Soviet Union.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
400
This man becomes the first elected president of Poland
Who is Lech Walesa?
500
This man becomes president after Roosevelt dies between the Yalta and the Potsdam Conferences.
Who is Harry Truman?
500
This event led to American hostages being held for 444 days in Tehran in 1981.
What is the Iran Contra Affair?
500
This president says goodbye to detente and embraces an idea of "Star Wars."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
This event led to collapse of the USSR.
What is the August Coup of 1991?
500
This region descends into violence and bloodshed in 1998
What is Kosovo?