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Fall of the USSR

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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.

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This was a defensive alliance between western nations who pledged to support each other if any

member nation was attacked.

NATO

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This was a defensive alliance among the Soviet Union and its satellites promising

mutual military cooperation.

Warsaw Pact

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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.

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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

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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.

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Arms Race

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300 Sputnik

This was the first satellite

sent into space by the Soviets

in 1957.

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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.

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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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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.

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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