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100
Cold War speech by Winston Churchill in 1946 which said that this has descended across the continent.
What was the Iron Curtain Speech?
100
This war started when the North crossed over the 38th parallel.
What was the Korean War?
100
This event occurred when a United States plane was shot down in Soviet Union airspace.
What was the U-2 Spy Plane Incident?
100
QUADRUPLE JEOPARDY!!! This document was signed by England, the Soviet Union, no the United States prohibiting the testing of nuclear weapons anywhere except underground. This treaty tried to prohibit the spread of any nuclear devices to countries that didn't already have them. This was an acronym for when both the leader of the U.S.S.R. and the leader of the U.S. set restrictions on nuclear weapons. This was the largest set of restrictions placed on nuclear weapons in history as it removed 80% of all nuclear weapons.
What was the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty? What was the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty? What was S.A.L.T. II & S.A.L.T. II? What was S.T.A.R.T.?
100
This was a social movement using forms of civil resistance to try and gain freedoms of everyday life, and achieve change for workers.
What was the Solidarity Movement in Poland?
200
This was a foreign policy to conquer they Soviet Union and stop their expansion, and that the U.S. Is opening up its diplomatic relations to any democratic country who may need its help.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
These two were spies for the Soviet Union, although living in America.
Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
200
This was a failed military invasion of Cuba trying to overthrow Fidel Castro's government.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
200
This was after the Soviet Union sent troops to occupy this country after it tried to reject communism.
What was the Czechoslovakia Uprising (Prague Spring)?
200
This person was shot and wounded in St. Peter's Square by Mehmet Ali Agca, an escaped Turkish murderer. With a bullet to the abdomen and to the hand, this person lived and eventually forgave Agca.
What was the Assasination of Attempt of Pope John Paul II?
300
This may also be known as the ERP, and it was an American diplomatic initiative giving billions of dollars to rebuild Europe.
What was the Marshall Plan?
300
This pact was formed as a result of the Soviet Union's hunger to dominate Central and Eastern Europe.
What was the Formation of the Warsaw Pact?
300
This wall was made to separate the East and West people of Germany.
What was the Construction of the Berlin Wall?
300
The Olympic basketball game between the USSR and the U.S., but became a large political conflict.
What was the 1972 Summer Basketball Game between the U.S. and U.S.S.R.?
300
A program instituted by Ronald Raegan to create a missile system in order to defend/prevent the U.S. from missile attacks from other countries, especially the U.S.S.R.
What was S.D.I. Or Star Wars?
400
This event occurred when the U.S., England and France tried to divide and conquer Germany, but ended up having to send in goods to this city for about a full year.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
400
This revolt started with students and later expanded to everyone, and it was against this country's government and its Soviet policies.
What was the Hungarian Revolt?
400
A two week long tense period believed to be the start of nuclear warfare in which the United States and Cuba were in a political struggle.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
The USSR invaded this country and gained total control over most of the country in 1979.
What was the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
400
A flight from New York to Seoul that was shot down by Soviet Jets in 1983.
What was the Korean Air Lines Flight 007?
500
12 nations made basically a military alliance against Communist nations on April 4th, 1949, forming this.
What was the Formation of N.A.T.O.?
500
This was a competition between the U.S. and the USSR for dominance in space flight capability.
What was Sputnik and the Space Race?
500
This was was a successful attempt in which this democratic nation turned communist. This could also be known as the indirect conflict between the U.S. and the USSR.
What was the Vietnam War?
500
President Carter announced that the U.S. would not compete in the Summer Olympics in Moscow. Then four years later as the 1984 Olympics were in Los Angeles, the Soviet Union would not compete.
What was the 1980 and 1984 Boycott of the Olympics?
500
This architectural monument separates the communists from the East and the fascists of the West, and as the Cold War ended, and the East German Communist Party declared that citizens could finally cross the border, that night both sides destroyed the wall.
What was the Fall of the Berlin Wall?