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The Cold War Heats Up Containment And Conflict Decolonization The Soviet Union Eastern Europe The Cold War Era

WORTH: What were Turkey and Greece? SUBJECT: Containment and Conflict MAIN These were the two countries that Truman asked congress to support in resisting Communism in 1947.

WORTH: Who was Vyacheslav Molotov? He was Stalin’s foreign minister who spoke publicly in 1946 that the western democracies were the enemies of the Soviet Union MAIN SUBJECT: Containment and Conflict

WORTH: What was the Truman Doctrine? This was the speech and ultimately the policy of the United States which proposed the idea of containing the spread of Communism and containment MAIN SUBJECT: Containment and Conflict

WORTH: What was the Berlin Blockade and airlift ? This was the city that the Soviet Union sought to seal off and isolate from the western world in February MAIN SUBJECT: Containment and Conflict

WORTH: What was the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Council of Mutual Assistance and later in 1955 became the Warsaw Pact? These were the two opposing military alliances that formed in 1949 and marked an escalation of the Cold War MAIN SUBJECT: Containment and Conflict

WORTH: What was the Balfour Declaration? This was the British promise that favored the establishment of a Jewish homeland, unfortunately they also promised Arabs from Palestine their own homeland SUBJECT: The Cold War Heats Up MAIN

WORTH: What was the Korean War? This was the conflict that broke out in June, 1950 and forced the United Nations and the United States to intervene and stop the aggression of Communist troops MAIN SUBJECT: The Cold War Heats Up

WORTH: Who was Gamal Abdel Nasser? He took control of the Suez Canal in 1956 and declared war on Israel, which France and Great Britain used as an excuse to invade Egypt MAIN SUBJECT: The Cold War Heats Up

WORTH: What was the “Cuban Missile Crisis” of This was the event in 1962 that marked the closest the world has come to all out Nuclear War between the Soviet Union and the United States MAIN SUBJECT: The Cold War Heats Up

WORTH: What was the Berlin Wall? This was the structure built by the Soviet Union that became the symbol of the Cold war in 1961 and halted the flow of refugees from the Communist east MAIN SUBJECT: The Cold War Heats Up

WORTH: What was Indonesia? This was the area that the Dutch were forced to abandon in 1949 and the nation that was created when they left MAIN SUBJECT: Decolonization

WORTH: What was Angola and Mozambique? These were the two countries in Africa that the Portuguese finally abandoned in 1974 and 1975, and left in a state of political conflict MAIN SUBJECT: Decolonization

WORTH: What was the French – Algerian War ? This was the war that lasted from 1945 until 1962 and eventually ends the Fourth Republic of France and brings Charles de Gaulle to power MAIN SUBJECT: Decolonization

WORTH: What were Cyprus in 1960 and Malta in 1964? These were the two Mediterranean Islands that were once part of the British Empire that demanded independence after World War II MAIN SUBJECT: Decolonization

WORTH: Who were Mohandis Gandhi and the Indian National Congress, and Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League in 1947 ? These were the leaders and political parties that led independence movements against the British after World War II MAIN SUBJECT: Decolonization

WORTH: Who was Nikita Khrushchev? He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis and succeeded Joseph Stalin SUBJECT: The Soviet Union MAIN

WORTH: What was Hungary and Imre Nagy who was executed in 1958? This was the country that revolted from Soviet control in 1956 after being offered U.S. support only to be abandoned and left to Soviet retaliation MAIN SUBJECT: The Soviet Union

WORTH: What was Sputnik? This was the space satellite that was launched by the Soviet Union and seemed to show the technological advancement of the communist system MAIN SUBJECT: The Soviet Union

WORTH: Who was Leonid Brezhnev and the Brezhnev Doctrine? He was the leader of the Soviet Union who replaced Khrushchev in 1964 and declared the right to interfere in the domestic politics of other communist countries MAIN SUBJECT: The Soviet Union

WORTH: Who was Andrei Sakharov and his wife Yelena Bonner who were both jailed ? He was the Soviet scientist who developed the Soviet hydrogen bomb and won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1975 and criticized the government which retaliated by having him committed to a mental institution MAIN SUBJECT: The Soviet Union

WORTH: Who was Slobodan Milosevic who died in prison in 2006 ? He was the Serb leader who initiated ethnic cleansing of Muslims and Croats in Serbia and by forced attempted to maintain a unified Yugoslavia MAIN SUBJECT: Eastern Europe

WORTH: What was the Prague Spring? This was the name given to the Czechoslovakian autonomy movement in 1968 led by Alexander Dubcek and quickly suppressed by the Soviet Union MAIN SUBJECT: Eastern Europe

WORTH: Who was Lech Walesa and Poland? This was the country and leader who led the Solidarity Movement which helped bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union from the city and shipyards of Gdansk MAIN SUBJECT: Eastern Europe

WORTH: What was Romania, both him and his wife were executed on Romanian television? This was the eastern European country where violence erupted when the leader Nicolae Ceausescu had soldiers fire on protesting crowds MAIN SUBJECT: Eastern Europe

WORTH: Who was Mikhail Gorbachev, who was replaced by Boris Yeltsin in 1992? He was the leader of the Soviet Union when it unraveled in 1991 and was almost deposed in a conservative coup in August of MAIN SUBJECT: Eastern Europe