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Terror
100

Leader who died in 1953

Joseph Stalin

100

Alliance of Western Powers created during the Berlin Blockade

NATO

100

Conference held to discuss end of WWII - FDR, Stalin and Churchill key attendees

Yalta Conference Feb 1945

100

Lasers in Space

Strategic Defense Initiative

100

Cause of the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan 1979

Support the Communist Government to regain power 

200

Responsible for dropping the only Nuclear Weapon on an enemy target

Harry S Truman

200
Organisation responsible for creating the Universal Declaration of Human rights

United Nations

200

Message sent from the US embassy in Moscow in 1946 presenting the Soviets as inherently aggressive and expansionist

Kennan's 'Long Telegram'

200

1 cause of Soviet Economic Stagnation in the 1980s

Apathetic workforce, no new technologies, aging leadership
200
name of the guerrilla force fighting the Soviets in the Afghan countryside

Mujahidin

300

Served 4 successive terms as President of the US

FDR

300

Military alliance of European communist states established in 1955

Warsaw Pact

300

The Hungarian Communist Rakosi described this process of gradually taking control of the different organs of government, and getting rid of all opposition, bit-by-bit.

Salami Tactics
300

Policy of 'restructuring' to fix the Soviet Economy

Perestroika

300

Mujahidin leaders had support from these countries during the Afghanistan/Soviet war

Pakistan, Iran, US

400

Elected on a tough Anti-Communist platform at the end of the Detente Period

Ronald Reagan

400

Counter Intelligence organisation whose poor liason with other agencies was criticised after 9/11 attacks

CIA

400
The conflict which caused Truman to offer aid in 1947 which would become the Truman Doctrine

The Greek Civil War

400

Consequence of Glasnost

Rise of pro-democracy demonstrations across the USSR and Eastern bloc countries

400

Arabic, meaning 'The Base'

Al-Qaeda

500

Tough, hard line Prime Minister of the UK during the end of the Cold War

Margaret Thatcher

500

Cold War era alliance between Australia, Great Britain, US, France, New Zealand, Thailand, Phillippines and Pakistan

South East Asia Traty Organisation (SEATO)

500

The immediate cause of the Berlin Blockade

Introduction of new currency into the Wester sectors of Berlin (June 1948)

500

a russian word used to describe members of the Soviet bureaucracy who held great administrative power

Nomenklatura

500

How many teams of Saudi-Born hijackers took control of planes on the morning of September 11, 2001

four