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Organizations PeopleCold War Battles
Fall of the USSR
Geography Vocabulary
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Final Jeopardy!
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100 United NationsThis is an international group formed in
1945 to discuss world problems and develop solutions.
200Categories
This was a defensive alliance between western nations who pledged to support each other if any
member nation was attacked.
NATO
300Categories
This was a defensive alliance among the Soviet Union and its satellites promising
mutual military cooperation.
Warsaw Pact
400Categories
This was the name for the smaller Eastern European countries that were economically and
politically dominated by the Soviet Union.
Satellites
This was a policy of not supporting either side during the Cold War, and accepting
economic aid from both.
Non-Alignment500Categories
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He was the last leader of the USSR and brought great
changes in the 1980s that led to
the Soviet Union’s collapse.
Mikhail GorbachevCategories
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De-StalinizationThis was Khrushchev’s program that
denounced Stalin as a criminal and eased censorship in the USSR.
300Categories
Berlin AirliftIn 1948 Stalin blocked all the roads
leading into West Berlin, which led to this Cold War event.
He became dictator of the USSR after the death of Stalin in 1953 and ruled until 1964.
Nikita Khrushchev400Categories
500
He led the Polish labor union Solidarity and became the president of Poland in 1989.
Lech WalesaCategories
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This incident in 1961 nearly led to nuclear war when the USSR built
missile bases 90 miles from Florida.
Cuban Missile Crisis
This was the Cold War competition between the
US and the USSR in regards to military
strength.
200Categories
Arms Race
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300 Sputnik
This was the first satellite
sent into space by the Soviets
in 1957.
400Categories
ICBMsThese were long-range rockets that went into space and carried nuclear warheads.
U-2This was the US plane that was shot
down while spying on the USSR.
500Categories
100
The USSR invaded this country in 1979 to help keep a communist government in power, and eventually left in defeat.
AfghanistanCategories
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This was the nuclear disaster that occurred in the USSR in 1986.
Chernobyl
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This was Gorbachev’s plan to restructure the Soviet economy and government.
PerestroikaCategories
This was Gorbachev’s policy of openness, which ended censorship.
Glasnost400Categories
CommandCommunism is this type of economy because the
government owns all property and makes all production decisions.
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500
100This imaginary line divided democratic western
Europe from communist eastern Europe.
Iron CurtainCategories
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This structure built by the communists in 1961 surrounded the democratic
portion of Germany’s capitol.
Berlin Wall
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This was the idea that if one Asian country fell to communism its neighbors would soon
follow, eventually reaching the US.
Domino Theory
This was a US economic and
military program designed in 1947 to help countries, such as Greece
and Turkey, resist Soviet aggression.
Truman Doctrine400Categories
500 Hungary & CzechoslovakiaCategories
Democratic rebellions occurred in these two
Soviet satellites in 1956 and 1968, and both were
crushed by the USSR.
Austria
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This was the theory that since nuclear war would result in the annihilation of
both sides, war was actually less
probable.
Mutual Assured Destruction
Marshall PlanThis was the American aid package for Europe proposed in 1947 to strengthen
democratic governments and lessen the appeal of communism.
200Categories
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This was a discussion between Khrushchev and Nixon about communism vs. capitalism.
Kitchen Debates
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This was a policy that involved limiting communism to areas already under
Soviet control.
Containment
This was a period in the 1970s during which there was an easing of tensions
between the US and the USSR.
Détente 500Categories
Russia, USSR, Warsaw Pact
List the following in order from smallest to largest:
USSR, Warsaw Pact, Russia
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