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100
The premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban missile crisis.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
100
The nation that controls the Suez Canal.
What is Egypt?
100
The seat of real political power in the Soviet Union.
What is the Communist party?
100
The term that describes a government with complete control over its citizens.
What is totalitarian?
100
The dictator of Cuba before the communist revolution.
Who was Batista?
200
The man who ordered the land routes to Berlin closed.
Who was Joseph Stalin?
200
These are the two nations that keep the Soviets from controlling the eastern end of the Mediterranean Sea.
What are Greece and Turkey?
200
The Soviet-built weapons whose discovery in Cuba caused a crisis in 1962.
What were missiles?
200
These are agreements between nations to help each other in case of attack.
What are alliances?
200
The part of the United NAtions that condemned the Soviet Union for its actions in Hungary.
What was the General Assembly?
300
The president in 1965 who sent the marines into the Dominican Republic.
Who was Lyndon Johnson?
300
The major Cold War antagonist with a communist government.
What was the Soviet Union?
300
The middle eastern waterway that the Soviet Union wanted to control.
What was the Suez Canal?
300
The imaginary barrier that prevents the free exchange of ideas and people between communist and free nations in Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
The people who resisted the communists in Hungary.
Who were the Freedom Fighters?
400
The secretary of state under the presidents Nixon and Ford.
Who was Henry Kissinger?
400
The Jewish nation created after World War II.
What was Israel?
400
The defense organization formed by nine western European nations plus Iceland, Canada, and the United States to stop the spread of communism.
What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (or NATO)?
400
The idea that communism must be kept within its existing boundaries and not allowed to spread.
What is the policy of containment?
400
The capital of Hungary.
What is Budapest?
500
The first communist leader of the Soviet Union.
Who was Lenin?
500
The German city surrounded by the Soviet occupation zone after World War II.
What is Berlin?
500
A massive parade of soldiers and weapons that takes place each year in Moscow.
What is the May Day parade?
500
The countries in eastern Europe that have communist governments and are partly controlled by the Soviet Union.
What are satellites?
500
A council or assembly in Russia.
What is a soviet?