Leaders
The president of the USA who was in power, when the Cold War started.
Who was Truman?
The most basic of all US foreign policies with regards to communism and the USSR from Truman all the way up to Reagan.
What is containment? (Truman Doctrine)
The year the Korean War started.
What is 1950?
The crises in which the USSR wanted to put up a couple of nukes in the so-called backyard of the USA in 1962.
What was the Cuban Missile Crises?
The country, which no longer exists, in which Tito was head honcho.
What was Yugoslavia?
The person who took over as supreme leader of the USSR after Stalin.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
Eisenhower's foreign policy regarding communism, which took one step further than that of containment, attempting to liberate, not only contain.
The year JFK was shot.
What is 1963?
A crises that was triggered by the Egyptians taking control of a piece of infrastructure controlled by the British.
What was the Suez Crises?
An Eastern European country which today is home to the largest parliament building in the world, which was just about finished when its creator, the local dictator, was gunned down on national television alongside his wife in 1989.
What is Romania?
The two leaders associated with the period of Détente?
It was at the heart of the Kennedy Doctrine and stood in stark contrast to Eisenhower's promise of Massive Retaliation.
What is Flexible Response?
The year the Hungarian Revolution took place.
What is 1956?
A crisis that came about because of a dispute over economy - and not least official currency - in Germany and ended with an impressive amount of airplanes dropping supplies to the civilian population for weeks on end.
What was the Berlin Crisis of 1948?
Where Ngo Dinh Diem was in charge for a while in the early 60s.
What was South Vietnam?
The leader of the Republic of China who, in 1949, moved to Taiwan.
Who was Jiang Jieshi?
The Soviet counterpart to the American idea of Rollback, which said that the USSR would intervene if any socialist government was in peril of being overturned.
The year Khrushchev gave his famous Secret Speech.
What is 1956?
A series of crises involving China, which are still very much the talk of the town today (or at least the area and the actors are still being talked about in the same way).
What were the Taiwan Crises?
The country that inspired the concept of a Banana Republic, after the United Fruit Company had its democratically elected leader ousted in 1954.
What is Guatemala?
The two leaders of the USSR between Brezhnev and Gorbachev.
Who were Andropov and Chernenko?
Not in itself a doctrine, but it informed US nuclear policy for the rest of the Cold War, despite it being released in 1950.
What was the NSC-68?
The year Brezhnev announced his Doctrine in a speech in Poland.
What is 1968?
The 1974-1975 crisis in a former Portugese African colony, which saw the meddling of not only US and Soviet agents, but also many Cuban soldiers.
What was the Angolan Crisis?
The country in which the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe - furthering the idea of Détente and seen as a significant step towards easing tensions between East and West - was held in 1975.
What is Finland?