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The Cold War was a Battle between the Western powers and the _____ _____, which were known as superpowers at the time.
The "Big Three" consisted of Churchill, Stalin, and ________.
At the ______ ______, the tasks at hand included planning their remaining wartime actions, planning the future for post-war Europe, and re-drawing the map of Europe.
Stalin wanted to gain power over _____, and when this was not part of the plans at the Yalta Accord, he began to cut ties with the Western Allies.
East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Albania, and Bulgaria are all what to the USSR?
_________ and Germany were divided into 4 zones after WWII.
The Truman Doctrin was introduced in an attempt to stop Soviet ________ and contain communist influence.
The _____ Plan was the US's largest aid plan used to help the recovery of countries ravaged by war in Europe.
Who gave the 'Iron Curtain' speech?
Both the USSR and the US feared _______, which is the attempt to thwart another country's expansionism through means other than direct warfare.
The Berlin ______ was when Stalin blocked all of America's road, rail, and canal access into West Berlin.
The Berlin ______ was the west's response to Stalin's blockades - the West began flying in supplies to the west berliners that had been cut off from all outside access.
During the ______ revolution, the citizens revolted against their communist government and battled the state police and USSR troops.
______ of Yugoslavia, became the only socialist leader to defy Stalin's demands fro absolute loyalty to the USSR.
States that considers themselves not formally aligned with or against any major power bloc are called ___-______
_____ invovles the building up of one's capacity to fight to such an extent that neither power want to fight because of the known outcome of mass destruction.
The _____ (acronym) was created in response to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
________ was a founding member of NATO, which was a military alliance designed to defend member countries against attacks from the USSR and its allies.
_______ was the French version of deterrence that was designed as a defence of the possibility of attack by any other country.
The term used to describ the attempt to push a dangerous situation as far as possible without conceding anything to one's opponent is ...
The event in which the USSR tried to create a Soviet supported missile base on an island just outside of Mexico and almost lead to the start of WWIII.
a _____ war is a conflixt in which one superpower might fight in another country or provide support to a group which opposed the rival superpower.
This type of movement occurs when a country rebels against the country that colonized it or otherwise oppressed it.
The Korean and _____ proxy wars were very similar, as they both became ideological battle grounds for hot wars between the US and the USSR.
A current proxy war is being fought here.
The growing threat of the possible Third World War forced people towards ____ ____ ____.
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, _____ was used to strengthen American position using spy planes.
In the US, propaganda was used to support the values of ______.
The Red Scare was an intense fear of _______ that overcame the majority of the American population - this fear was fuelled by USSR espionage.
THe two leaders in power of the supoerpower states at then end of the Cold War were Reagan and ______.

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