NY Regents 10.6: Cold War

The meeting took place in Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin in what is now Germany, sitting on the flat North European Plain between the Elbe and Oder rivers — the same low corridor that has…

This event is anchored in Warsaw, the capital of Poland — a city sitting squarely on the flat North European Plain, bounded to the north by the Baltic Sea and to the south by the arc of the…

This meeting took place in Yalta, a resort city on the Crimean Peninsula, where the Black Sea's northern shore curves beneath the Crimean Mountains — exactly the southern edge of the vast Eurasian…

On March 12 1947 President Harry Truman addressed Congress requesting military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey, both threatened by communist movements. He articulated what became known as the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America — on the Potomac River's banks, between the Appalachian Mountains to the west and the Atlantic coast…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting on the flat North European Plain roughly halfway between the Rhine River to the west and the Polish border to the east. Beginning in June 1948, the…

The site was the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan — deep in the Eurasian steppe, east of the Urals and north of the Tian Shan mountains, exactly as the clues described. In August…

Washington, D.C., on the eastern seaboard of the United States — sitting between the Potomac River and the Chesapeake Bay lowlands, exactly where the title clue pointed — was where the North Atlantic…

Enewetak Atoll, in the Marshall Islands of the central Pacific Ocean, was the site of the world's first full-scale thermonuclear bomb test on November 1, 1952. The device, codenamed Ivy Mike, was…

Semipalatinsk, in the Soviet Union's Kazakh steppe — a vast flat grassland east of the Ural Mountains that mark the dividing line between Europe and Asia — was the site of the Soviet Union's most…

In May 1955, representatives of the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics convened in Warsaw, Poland, to sign the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance…

This conflict unfolded across Vietnam, a long, S-shaped country on the eastern edge of the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia — flanked by the South China Sea to the east and sharing borders with…

Warsaw, the capital of Poland, sits on the Vistula River in the heart of the North European Plain — exactly the flat, open corridor between the Baltic Sea to the north and the Carpathian Mountains…

This is Alexandria, Egypt — on the Mediterranean's southern edge where northeastern Africa faces Europe across a narrow sea, at the northern mouth of the canal that cuts through the isthmus…

This speech was delivered in Moscow, the Soviet Union's capital, sitting at the heart of the immense East European Plain — a flat, open expanse stretching from the Baltic coast westward to the Ural…

The launch site is Baikonur Cosmodrome, located in what is now Kazakhstan — a vast, flat, semi-arid steppe basin lying between the Caspian Sea to the west and the former Aral Sea to the east, deep in…

Moscow, deep in the Soviet Union's interior, sits on the vast East European Plain — the same broad lowland that stretches westward past the Baltic Sea and ends only at the Ural Mountains to the east…

This event unfolded in Berlin, the historic capital sitting on the North European Plain in what was then divided Germany — a country flanked by the Rhine to the west and the Oder River marking its…

The Bay of Pigs sits on the southern coast of Cuba — the largest island in the Caribbean, lying roughly 150 kilometres south of Florida across the Straits of Florida. In April 1961, around 1,500…

This event unfolded in the Dominican Republic, which occupies the eastern two-thirds of Hispaniola — a large Caribbean island lying between Cuba to the west and Puerto Rico to the east, bathed by the…

Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, sits on the eastern seaboard of North America, wedged between the states of Maryland and Virginia along the Potomac River — exactly the…

This was Havana, Cuba — the island nation sitting in the Caribbean Sea just 90 miles south of the Florida peninsula, exactly where those reconnaissance flights detected the missiles. In 1962, U.S…

Moscow, the capital of Russia (then the Soviet Union), sits on the East European Plain roughly 900 kilometres east of the Baltic Sea, deep inside the largest country on Earth by land area. In 1963…

The Ia Drang Valley sits in the central highlands of Vietnam, a rugged interior region of the Indochina peninsula rising well above the narrow coastal plain that faces the South China Sea. In…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — known as Saigon at the time — in Vietnam, the long, narrow country hugging the eastern edge of the Indochinese Peninsula along the South China Sea, exactly where the Mekong…

The Cambodian campaign was a series of military operations conducted in eastern Cambodia in mid-1970 by South Vietnam and the United States, undertaken as an expansion of the Vietnam War and the…

Beijing, the capital of the People's Republic of China, sits on the North China Plain — exactly that broad lowland stretching between the Gobi Desert to the north and the Himalayan plateau to the…

Moscow, Russia — a capital set deep on the East European Plain, just west of the Ural Mountains, the ancient ridge dividing Europe from Asia. In May 1972, the United States and Soviet Union signed…

This is Ho Chi Minh City — formerly Saigon — in southern Vietnam, sitting in the Mekong River delta where that long, narrow Southeast Asian peninsula tapers toward its southern tip between the Gulf…

In early 1979 months of mass protests, strikes and demonstrations forced Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi to flee Iran, and the exiled cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned to Tehran to lead a new…

On November 4, 1979, sixty-six Americans — diplomats and civilian staff — were taken hostage when the Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line stormed and occupied the United States Embassy in…

This is Kabul, the high-altitude capital of Afghanistan — a landlocked nation sitting in the heart of Asia, where the Hindu Kush mountains divide Central Asia from the Indian subcontinent, east of…

Managua, the capital of Nicaragua, sits near the southern shore of a large inland lake at the very heart of Central America — the narrow isthmus that connects North and South America, with the…

Solidarity, in full the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. It emerged from the industrial…

Reykjavík, the capital of Iceland, sits on a volcanic island in the North Atlantic — perched just below the Arctic Circle and almost exactly halfway between Greenland to the west and Norway to the…

This is Prague, the capital of Czechoslovakia — a landlocked city in the heart of Central Europe, sitting between the Alps to the south and the arc of the Carpathians to the east, drained by the…

This is Berlin, the capital of Germany, sitting in the broad North European Plain between the Rhine basin to the west and the Oder River — the natural boundary with Poland — to the east. On November…

This event unfolded in Moscow, Russia — the capital city sitting on the flat East European Plain, roughly equidistant between the Baltic Sea to the northwest and the Caspian Sea to the southeast, at…