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What are Superpowers and who were they?
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Superpowers are the strongest nations in the world which command the most power. The Superpowers were the United States and the Soviet Union.
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What country became a main focus in the beginning of the Cold War?
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Berlin.
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The Berlin Wall split up which sides?
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Democratic West Berlin and Communist East Berlin.
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What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?
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To keep communist people from fleeing from East Berlin into West Berlin.
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The Untied States led NATO standing for....
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization
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The Soviet Union led what pact?
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The Warsaw Pact
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What was the name of the imaginary line that the two sides fought against?
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The Iron Curtain
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Cold War tensions caused revolts in which communist run countries?
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East Germany, Poland, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia
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What did the Hungarian leader Imre Nagy seek to do?
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Pull his country out of the Warsaw Pact
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What did Czechoslovakia leader Alexander Dubek introduce? And what was this known as?
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Greater freedom of expression and limited democracy. This was known as the "Prague Spring"
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What was the most terrifying aspect of the Cold War?
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The arms race for nuclear weapon and the fear of nuclear war.
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Both the Soviet Union and the United States had developed what type of bombs by 1953?
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Hydrogen bombs and Atomic Bombs
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This race to match each others weapons resulted in what?
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A "balance of terror"
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What did the United States and Te Soviet Union aim to do by having Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)?
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Limit the number of nuclear weapons held by each side.
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What are anti-ballistic missiles (ABMs)?
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These are missiles that could shoot down other missiles from hostile countries.
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