Cold War Leaders and Pivotal Policies

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The leader of the Soviet Union who brought down the Berlin Wall?

Gorbachev

 the Cuban president who was caught in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Fidel Casto

This president was elected off his campaign to "end the war" in Vietnam

Richard Nixon

The Soviet Premier who Initiated the space race

Nikita Khrushchev

The US president who threatened nuclear warfare as a result of any Soviet expansion

Eisenhower

Resisted communism and received some financial aid for doing so

NATO

An American promise to rebuild Europe following World War II

The Marshall Plan

West Germany solution to the blockade of Berlin

The Berlin Airlift

Soviet Union began the space race after launching Sputnik

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Nickname "The Iron Curtain" of Europe

The Berlin Wall

Who Encourage North Koreans to invade?

Stalin

 An agreement to split the country in half and established separate governments

A partition

The first proxy of the Cold War regarded a Civil War in Greece

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This war was a battle between nationalism and imperialism

Vietnam War

General Ho Chi Minh led communist revolutionaries in their fight for independence against France during the Vietnam war

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Both the US and the USSR knew that neither would be using their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. This  was an example of what?

deterrence

 social and economic upheaval of the Soviet Union presented by Mr.Gorbachev

Perestroika

German mandates were converted into Soviet mandates thanks to the use of

Military presence

Those who escaped from East Germany under the Berlin Wall sought help from the West are known as refugees

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 Domino's Siri assuming today if one country were to become communist, all the others would follow and they  were right

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