This is the state of political hostility that existed between the Soviet bloc countries and the US-led Western powers from 1945 to 1990.
What is the Cold War?
100
This is an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
What is capitalism?
100
Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met here.
Where is Yalta?
100
This stated that the U.S. would aid countries around the world who are fighting communism
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
These people faced a severe housing shortage.
Who are he returning veterans?
200
This is 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.
What is The Iron Curtain?
200
This 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.
What is communism?
200
This location held the meeting where there was an agreement that Poland, Bulgaria, and Romania would have free elections.
Where is Yalta?
200
This stated that if the U.S. doesn’t fight communism, then countries will fall to communism like dominos.
What is The Domino Theory?
200
This was created to solve the problem of the housing shortage.
What is an assembly line method to mass produce houses?
300
This period included a race to the moon and the launching of satellites.
What is The Space Race?
300
This is a political and economic theory of social organization that advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.
What is socialism?
300
Truman, Atlee, and Stalin met at this location.
What is Postdam?
300
The United States gave this to Greece & Turkey.
What is 400 million dollars in economic & military aid?
300
Veteran's from this war were frowned upon.
What is the Vietnam War?
400
Soviet Union won the gold medal in this sport in 1956, 1964, 1968, 1972, & 1976. The US team was made up of college amateurs and won the gold medal against the Soviet Union in 1980.
What is hockey
400
This is the political concept that the citizen should be totally subject to an absolute state authority.
What is totalitarianism?
400
These people made the agreement that there would be new borders and free elections for Poland, Soviets would be allowed to claim war reparations, and Germany would be divided into 4 zones of occupation.
Who are Truman, Atlee, and Stalin?
400
The reason for the Truman Doctrine was to fend off what?
What is communism?
400
After the ending of The Vietnam War, America was what when it comes to helping other countries?
What is reluctant to intervene?
500
In the long run, USSR’s weaker Communist system could not keep up the race; economic collapse.
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected in USSR in 1985 (introduced democratic reforms).
Soviet Union collapsed in 1991.
What did this cause?
What is the USA winning the Cold War?
500
This is a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives.
What is democracy?
500
Free elections were not held in Poland, Bulgaria, or Romania because of this.
What is that Stalin, eventually reneged on the promises made at Yalta and Potsdam?
500
This was the European Recovery Plan.
What is The Marshall Plan?
500
Congress passed this to restrict the President’s ability to send the nation to war.