Nuclear Weapons
This country developed an atomic bomb with the assistance of spies in the US.
What is the USSR?
When Russia invaded this Central Asian country, it was a long and costly struggle.
What is Afghanistan?
This was Putin's first political position in Russia.
What is the Vice Mayor of St. Petersburg?
Who is Hillary Clinton?
This former part of Russia tried unsuccessfully to gain independence, but after a war with Russia, they were unsuccessful.
What is Chechnya?
This acronym expresses the idea that a "balance of terror" would keep nuclear nations from launching a nuclear attack.
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)?
This was one of the countries in the USSR's eastern European empire; this extended empire became a drain on Russia's resources.
What is: Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, etc)?
These men are wealthy businessmen who purchased huge industries after Russia transitioned to a more capitalist economy.
Who are the oligarchs?
A meeting in this building in NYC demonstrated that the Trump campaign was willing to work with the Russian government to defeat its opponent.
What is Trump Tower?
This "mad" Russian monk had a deep influence over tsar Nicholas II and his wife, leading to his assassination.
Who is Rasputin?
These two sets of negotiations were held to either limit the number of nuclear weapons each side had or reduce the number of those weapons.
What are SALT and START?
This new Russian leader was a reformer that wanted to fix the problems of the USSR.
Who is Gorbachev?
Putin has assembled an effective one of these to use computing, social media and hacking to further his international goals.
What is a cyberarmy?
This woman was arrested, charged as a Russian agent and imprisoned for her work to infiltrate US political circles and spy on the US for Russian interests.
Who is Maria Butina?
He was the US president who made the decision to drop atomic bombs on Japan at the end of World War 2.
Who is Harry Truman?
This acronym is used to represent a treaty signed between nations discouraging non-nuclear states from developing them and restraining nuclear states from spreading the technology.
What is the NPT (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty)?
These two policies were initiated by the reform minded leader of the USSR: openness in the media and restructuring of the economy.
What is glasnost and perestroika?
Putin's desire to regain lands lost by the USSR, encourage the invasion of this former Soviet republic and now independent nation and seize a portion of it for Russia.
What is the Ukraine?
Russia used over 13,000 of these mechanized Twitter accounts to retweet and magnify propaganda.
What is a "bot"?
He was the British Prime Minister throughout World War 2.
Who is Winston Churchill?
This acronym describes US president Ronald Reagan's proposed "Star Wars" defense system agains a nuclear attack.
What is SDI (Strategic Defense Initiative)?
When the USSR collapsed after an unsuccessful military coup, it broke into this many separate independent nations.
What is 15?
This first elected president of Russia appointed Putin as Prime Minister.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
Trump appeared to believe Putin's denial of election meddling over the the accusations of US intelligence when they held a joint press conference in this European city.
What is Helsinki?
German General Rommel seized and then lost this region during World War 2, giving the Allies a platform to invade Italy and open a second front on the Germans.
What is North Africa?