Cold War 8th Grade (LaRue)

Name the leader of the Communist Cuba.

A policy that increased the freedom of press, speech and religion is called ____________.

Military alliance with the nations of W. Europe that promised to help each other if attacked:

What was built to prevent people in E. Germany from fleeing into the non-communist W. Germany?

What was torn down the when East and West Germany reunited?

Who was the President at the time during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who started the economic program called "perestroika?"

Wars in which the superpowers backed different sides that acted as substitutes for themselves:

An economic system based on the idea that farms & business should be owned by common workers.

Countries that refused to side with the US or the Soviets is known as ___________.

What was the name for the long, bitter struggle between The Soviet Union and the United States?

A competition to develop and manufacture more and more powerful weapons is called ________.

Accusing people of being Communist with little or no evidence is called __________.

Poorer less-developed nations of Latin America, Asia and Africa were known as ......

Soviet Union: cut off electricity & traffic to Western Berlin. Americans: flew in food & fuel.

The closest the Soviet Union and the US came to fighting during the Cold War was known as ____.

The U.S. policy of fighting the spread of Communism of limiting counties that already existed:

The Cuban Missile Crisis ended with this resolution:

What would we call an economic system based on private ownership of farms and businesses?