The Cold War & Cuban Revolution

Who was the dictator of Cuba before 1959

• Batista

• Castro

• Kennedy

• Khrushchev

President Reagan gave a speech at the Brandenburg Gate and told Gorbachev to

• tear down this wall

• tell the truth about the USSR

• end nuclear weapons

• cut ties with Castro

What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?

• 1972

• 1945

• 1958

• 1962

What are the two main ideas of communism

• equality and freedom

• equality and the government provides for your needs

• freedom and choices

• freedom and government control

Why did East Germany want to build the Berlin Wall

• prevent educated people from immigrating to the west

• prevent educated people from immigrating to the east

• there was a revolution in the west

• too many people wanted to live under communism

Castro instituted what type of government

• democracy

• oligarchy

• autocracy

• republic

Castro overthrowing the government is

• a coup

• an embargo

• a detente

• containment

Gorbachev is considered a "new type of Soviet leader" because

• he was more strict

• he starved the people

• he looked funny

• he allowed more freedom

most well known symbol of the cold war

• missiles

• atomic bombs

• hydrogen bombs

• Berlin Wall

Who wrote the Communist Manifesto

• Karl Marx

• John Lennon

• Joseph Stalin

• Mao