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2 Organizations People Cold War Battles Fall of the USSR GeographyVocabulary 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy!

3 Categories 100 United Nations This is an international group formed in 1945 to discuss world problems and develop solutions.

4 200 Categories This was a defensive alliance between western nations who pledged to support each other if any member nation was attacked. NATO

5 300 Categories This was a defensive alliance among the Soviet Union and its satellites promising mutual military cooperation. Warsaw Pact

6 400 Categories This was the name for the smaller Eastern European countries that were economically and politically dominated by the Soviet Union. Satellites

7 This was a policy of not supporting either side during the Cold War, and accepting economic aid from both. Non-Alignment 500 Categories

8 100 He was the last leader of the USSR and brought great changes in the 1980s that led to the Soviet Union’s collapse. Mikhail Gorbachev Categories

9 200 Categories De-Stalinization This was Khrushchev’s program that denounced Stalin as a criminal and eased censorship in the USSR.

10 300 Categories Berlin Airlift In 1948 Stalin blocked all the roads leading into West Berlin, which led to this Cold War event.

11 He became dictator of the USSR after the death of Stalin in 1953 and ruled until 1964. Nikita Khrushchev 400 Categories

12 500 He led the Polish labor union Solidarity and became the president of Poland in 1989. Lech Walesa Categories

13 100 Categories This incident in 1961 nearly led to nuclear war when the USSR built missile bases 90 miles from Florida. Cuban Missile Crisis

14 This was the Cold War competition between the US and the USSR in regards to military strength. 200 Categories Arms Race

15 Categories 300 Sputnik This was the first satellite sent into space by the Soviets in 1957.

16 400 Categories ICBMs These were long-range rockets that went into space and carried nuclear warheads.

17 U-2 This was the US plane that was shot down while spying on the USSR. 500 Categories

18 100 The USSR invaded this country in 1979 to help keep a communist government in power, and eventually left in defeat. Afghanistan Categories

19 200 Categories This was the nuclear disaster that occurred in the USSR in 1986. Chernobyl

20 300 This was Gorbachev’s plan to restructure the Soviet economy and government. Perestroika Categories

21 This was Gorbachev’s policy of openness, which ended censorship. Glasnost 400 Categories

22 Command Communism is this type of economy because the government owns all property and makes all production decisions. Categories 500

23 100 This imaginary line divided democratic western Europe from communist eastern Europe. Iron Curtain Categories

24 200 Categories This structure built by the communists in 1961 surrounded the democratic portion of Germany’s capitol. Berlin Wall

25 300 Categories This was the idea that if one Asian country fell to communism its neighbors would soon follow, eventually reaching the US. Domino Theory

26 This was a US economic and military program designed in 1947 to help countries, such as Greece and Turkey, resist Soviet aggression. Truman Doctrine 400 Categories

27 500 Hungary & Czechoslovakia Categories Democratic rebellions occurred in these two Soviet satellites in 1956 and 1968, and both were crushed by the USSR. Austria

28 100 Categories This was the theory that since nuclear war would result in the annihilation of both sides, war was actually less probable. Mutual Assured Destruction

29 Marshall Plan This was the American aid package for Europe proposed in 1947 to strengthen democratic governments and lessen the appeal of communism. 200 Categories

30 300 Categories This was a discussion between Khrushchev and Nixon about communism vs. capitalism. Kitchen Debates

31 400 Categories This was a policy that involved limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control. Containment

32 This was a period in the 1970s during which there was an easing of tensions between the US and the USSR. Détente 500 Categories

33 Russia, USSR, Warsaw Pact List the following in order from smallest to largest: USSR, Warsaw Pact, Russia

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