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What is the barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War?
the Berlin Wall
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Who is Stalin?
the leader of the Soviet Union
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What is the Berlin Blockade?
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany.
100
What is the Domino Theory?
the theory that a political event in one country will cause similar events in neighboring countries, like a falling domino causing an entire row of upended dominoes to fall.
100
Where is Afghanistan?
NE- Iran NW- Pakistan SE- Turkmenistan SW- Uzbekistan & Tajikistan West- Islamabad
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Where is Poland?
on the Eastern side of the Berlin Wall
200
Who is Castro?
a Cuban politician and revolutionary who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976, and President from 1976 to 2008.
200
The ________ was a pivotal moment in the Cold War. Fifty years ago the United States and the Soviet Union stood closer to Armageddon than at any other moment in history. In October 1962 President John F. Kennedy was informed of a U-2 spy-plane's discovery of Soviet nuclear-tipped missiles in Cuba.
cuban missile crisis
200
What is Vietcong?
a member of the communist guerrilla movement in Vietnam that fought the South Vietnamese government forces
200
What country is divided at the 38th parallel and ahs a Communist government?
North Korea
300
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany
300
Who was a Chinese Communist revolutionary and the founding father of the People's Republic of China, which he governed as Chairman of the Communist Party of China?
Mao Zedong
300
________ was a United States policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
Containment
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______ is 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.
Communism
300
What was the Great Leap forward?
An effort made by the Communist Party of China (CPC) under the leadership of Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) to transform China into a society capable of competing with other industrialized nations, within a short, five-year time period.
400
Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989, is the ____.
400
Who is Putin?
previously served as President from 2000 to 2008, and as Prime Minister of Russia from 1999 to 2000 and again from 2008 to 2012
400
What were the Korean Wars?
The Korean War was an episode in the Cold War. It seemed to be a war between South and North Korea, but America and Russia were using it to fight without having a 'hot war'. The USA went to war in Korea for three reasons.
400
_____ is the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.
glasnost
400
In 1966, China's Communist leader Mao Zedong launched what became known as the ______ _____ in order to reassert his authority over the Chinese government.
Cultural Revolution
500
What is an intergovernmental military alliance?
Nato
500
Who was the Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation?
Yeltsin
500
What is the Vietnam Wars?
The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and also known in Vietnam as Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a Cold War-era war that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 [A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.
500
What is Perestroika?
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, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.
500
What are the Geneva Accords?
Geneva Accords, collection of documents relating to Indochina and issuing from the Geneva Conference of April 26–July 21, 1954, attended by representatives of Cambodia, the People's Republic of China, France, Laos, the United Kingdom, the United States, the Soviet Union, the Viet Minh, and the State of Vietnam.