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The president of The United States (1945-1953) during the Cold War that came up with the doctrine to contain communism.
What is Harry Truman?
100
The first satellite launched into space that proved Russia could deliver a nuclear bomb to the USA, and also launched The Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
100
The city in East Germany that was split up into four sectors after WWII between The USA, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France.
What is Berlin?
100
It began with The Soviet Union launching Sputnik and ending with the USA landing a man on the moon.
What is The Space Race?
100
All of the countries behind the Iron Curtain that make decisions as a whole.
What is the Communist Bloc?
200
He coined the term "Iron Curtain."
What is Winston Churchill?
200
The belief that if South Vietnam fell to Communism that the rest of Europe would follow.
What is The Domino Theory?
200
Where Khruschev wanted to plant nuclear missiles.
What is Cuba?
200
Stalin sees this as a solution to get rid of W. Berlin and make it one Communist city controlled by the Soviet Union only.
What is The Berlin Blockade?
200
The boundary that was set up by Stalin around an eastern Germany city that was a nationalist sector in a Communist city.
What is The Berlin Wall?
300
The dictator that replaced Stalin and loaned nuclear missiles to Cuba.
What is Nikkita Khruschev?
300
The people left behind in Germany to keep it running after the denazification.
What is Burgermeisters?
300
The first country to brake from the Communist Bloc.
What is Romania?
300
A proxy war, the first limited war in history.
What is the Korean War?
300
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic..."
What is the Iron Curtain?
400
His real name was Djugasvili and he was a dictator of The Soviet Union.
What is Stalin?
400
The Korean and Vietnam wars are an example of this.
What is a Proxy War?
400
The city to prove that the countries behind the iron curtain had no choice but to be a part of the Communist Bloc.
What is Budapest, Hungary?
400
A proxy war where the French lost their colony of Dien Bien Phu.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
This area protected the U.S.S.R from Germany.
What is the Buffer Zone/ Satellites?
500
He created a plan of financial aid for most of Europe.
What is George Marshall?
500
The idea of restructuring Russia to capitalism.
What is Perestroika?
500
The French Colony reclaimed by South Vietnam upon the loss of the USA during the proxy war.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
500
The first fast food restaurant to open in Moscow, Russia, 1990.
What is McDonalds?
500
A gulf found in the Matanzas Province at the time of its invasion. (April 1961)
What is the Bay of Pigs?