The Cold War
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- 2. Who was the leader of the Communist Party in China and shaped China's trajectory during the Cold War?
- 6. What policy, announced in 1947 and named after the U.S. President, pledged to provide economic and military aid to countries threatened by communism?
- 9. What military alliance, established in 1955, consisted of Eastern European countries under Soviet influence, serving as a counter to NATO during the Cold War?
- 10. What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, triggering the space race and increasing Cold War tensions?
- 13. What term, meaning "restructuring" in Russian, refers to the series of economic and political reforms initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s to revitalize the Soviet economy and society?
- 14. Who succeeded Stalin as the leader of the Soviet Union, initiating some reforms and thawing tensions between the Soviet Union and the West?
- 15. What term, meaning "openness" in Russian, refers to the policy of increased transparency and freedom of expression introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev?
- 16. What term refers to the wars fought in Vietnam and Korea in an effort to stop the spread of communism?
- 17. What term describes the period of relaxed tensions and improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War?
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- 1. What Cold War theory, popularized by U.S. policymakers, suggested that the fall of one country to communism would lead to the spread of communism to neighboring countries?
- 3. What ambitious economic and social campaign, initiated by Mao Zedong in 1958, aimed to rapidly transform China from an agrarian society into an industrialized socialist state?
- 4. What event is considered one of the most dangerous moments of the Cold War, bringing the world to the brink of nuclear war? It was sparked by the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles on an island near the U.S.
- 5. Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union, whose policies aimed to reform the Soviet system leading to the end of the Cold War?
- 7. In what year did the Soviet Union officially dissolve, marking the end of the Cold War era?
- 8. What military alliance, formed in 1949, consisted of Western European and North American countries committed to mutual defense against the Soviet Union and communism during the Cold War?
- 11. What concrete barrier, erected in 1961, divided East and West Berlin and became a powerful symbol of the division between the capitalist West and communist East during the Cold War?
- 12. What policy, announced in 1948 and named after the U.S. Secretary of State, provided economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after World War II, with the aim of preventing the spread of communism?