Causes of the Cold War
This conference in 1945 marked the last of the Big Three meetings and revealed postwar tensions between the U.S. and USSR.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
This divided city became a flashpoint during the Cold War and was blockaded by the Soviets in 1948.
What is Berlin?
This leader promoted nonviolence and led India to independence from Britain in 1947.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
This Chinese policy aimed to rapidly industrialize the nation but caused mass famine.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This U.S. president told Gorbachev to 'tear down this wall!'
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This speech by Winston Churchill declared the descent of a division across Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain speech?
This Cold War crisis involved the U.S., the USSR, and missiles in the Caribbean in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This African colony fought a bloody war against France for independence, led by the FLN.
What is Algeria?
This movement by Mao used Red Guards to purge critics and reinforce communist ideology.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This term refers to Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring.
What is perestroika?
This U.S. doctrine stated the country would provide aid to nations threatened by communism, particularly Greece and Turkey.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This war (1950–1953) ended in a stalemate and led to a demilitarized zone between two nations.
What is the Korean War?
This sub-Saharan nation was the first to gain independence and was led by Kwame Nkrumah.
What is Ghana?
This Hungarian leader attempted to break away from the Warsaw Pact in 1956.
Who is Imre Nagy?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This 1989 event symbolized the fall of communism in Eastern Europe.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This economic plan gave $12 billion in aid to rebuild European economies to prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This U.S.-supported war in Southeast Asia was based on the domino theory of communist expansion.
What is the Vietnam War?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This French defeat in 1954 marked the end of colonial rule in Indochina.
What is the Battle of Dien Bien Phu?
This 1968 reform movement in Czechoslovakia was crushed by Soviet tanks.
What is the Prague Spring?
This treaty between Reagan and Gorbachev reduced intermediate nuclear weapons.
What is the INF Treaty?
This Soviet response to the Marshall Plan promoted trade and economic cooperation among socialist states.
What is COMECON?
This 1980s Soviet conflict against Muslim resistance fighters strained their economy and morale.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?
This U.N.-backed agreement gave independence to numerous West African French colonies in the late 1950s.
What is the French West Africa decolonization process?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This Peruvian Maoist group committed acts of terrorism from the 1980s onward.
What is Shining Path?
This policy of openness allowed more freedom of speech in the USSR.
What is glasnost?