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100
This man was leader of the Soviet Union during the Second World War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
100
A form of government in which decisions are made by the entire population or a group of elected officials.
What is a democracy?
100
The Soviet Union created a conflict between itself and the United States when it planted ballistic missiles in this country.
What is Cuba?
100
Tape found on doors led to a president's resignation, later referred to as this event.
What is Watergate?
100
The tensions between the Soviet Union and China during the twentieth century became known as this.
What is the Sino-Soviet Rift?
200
This man emerged as the primary candidate for Soviet leadership after Stalin's death in 1953.
Who is Georgi Malenkov?
200
Khrushchev's policy of abandoning some of the harsher policies enacted prior to World War II.
What is destalinization?
200
The Soviet Union split the capital of this country in two with a large wall.
What is (East) Germany?
200
Khrushchev caught a U.S. president lying about this event, which occurred in 1960.
What is the "U-2 Incident?"
200
This term refers to the Soviet middle class.
What is the Nomenklatura?
300
This man debated with then-U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon in the American National Exhibition, held in Moscow.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
300
To stray from official views.
What is dissent?
300
Liberated from Germany by the Red Army in 1945, the government of this country later introduced policies counter to the Soviet norm.
What is Czechoslovakia?
300
This event in 1956 resulted in an angry Soviet invasion, determined to crush sources of rebellion from Communism.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
300
This important man visited Poland for the first time in 1979.
Who is Pope John Paul II?
400
This U.S. President was caught lying by the Soviets regarding a plane crash in Soviet territory.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
To disperse from a concentrated area, especially in industry.
What is decentralization?
400
Wladyslaw Gomulka led the Communist Party of this country, which was home to a worker's strike in 1970.
What is Poland?
400
The United States' pride took a big hit due to their underestimation of Soviet technology when this satellite was launched in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
400
A government based on the rule of older people is called this.
What is a gerontocracy?
500
This man was threatened by the Warsaw Pact members when his country began to cry out for a more democratic political system in 1968.
Who is Alexander Dubček?
500
A stated principle of government policy (Brezhnev and Monroe had famous ones).
What is a doctrine?
500
The leader of this country practiced Communism that deviated from Stalin's own form of it.
What is Yugoslavia?
500
This event was the failure of the United States to overthrow Cuban dictator Fidel Castro (JFK's biggest mistake?).
What is the "Bay of Pigs Invasion"?
500
This phrase originated in Czechoslovakia and refers to the process of democratization of the country while keeping Communists in power.
What is What is "socialism with a human face"?