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Asia
100
Soviet controlled nations surrounding Russia, or the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain
100
A political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. (China, and the Soviets Government)
What is Communism
100
The Quarantine of an area to keep people in or out of that area.
What is Blockade
100
The leader of the Soviet Union from the mid-1920s until his death in 1953.
Who is Stalin
100
An effort made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedong to transform China into a society capable of competing with other industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period.
What is the Great Leap Forward
200
A structure built by the Soviets to separate East and West Germany
What is the Berlin Wall
200
The policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev.
What is Perestroika
200
When the Soviets put medium and long distance ground to ground missiles in Cuba. The US made an agreement to take the missiles out of Turkey of the removal of missiles in Cuba.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
200
An American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963. He made the call to exchange missiles in Cuba.
Who is JFK
200
A chaotic mass movement in the People's Republic of China. Mao Zedong launched it in 1966, claiming that elitists were undermining the government and Chinese society.
What is the Cultural Revolution
300
Post World War Two Germany was split into for controlled zones.
What is Germany Divided
300
An instance of going into a country or region with an armed force.
What is Invasions
300
The action of keeping something harmful under control or within limits, or the action or policy of preventing the expansion of a hostile country or influence.
What is Containment
300
A Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008. Revolted against the United States in Cuba
Who is Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz
300
A country in East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
What is North Korea
400
This country was taken over by Germany, starting World War Two, and Post World War Two, taken into the Iron Curtain
What is Poland
400
The act of rebelling against a wrong doing of the government. Can be peaceful or voilent
What is Protests
400
Also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist North Korea. The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What is the Korean War
400
A Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China.
Who is Mao Zedong
400
A landlocked country located in Central Asia and South Asia, in between Pakistan and Turkmenistan.
What is Afganistan
500
An attempt to help the people of Berlin by giving them supplies before the Berlin Wall was built
What is Berlin Airlift
500
Prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s, that speculated that if one state in a region came under the influence of communism.
What is Domino Theory
500
(1955–75) A Cold War conflict pitting the U.S. and the remnants of the French colonial government in South Vietnam against the indigenous but communist Vietnamese independence movement, the Viet Minh, following the latter's expulsion of the French in 1954.
What is the Vietnam War
500
An American actor and politician. He was the 40th President of the United States, and served as the 33rd Governor of California prior to his presidency.
Who is Ronald Wilson Reagan
500
These agreements temporarily separated Vietnam into two zones, a northern zone to be governed by the Việt Minh, and a southern zone to be governed by the State of Vietnam, then headed by former emperor Bảo Đại.
What is Geneva Accords