USA vs. USSR
What economy promoted by the United States relied on a free market, with relatively little government oversight?
Capitalism
He was the leader of the People’s Republic of China and had a plan to lower rent, redistribute land, energize industry, and uphold women’s rights.
Mao Zedong
This American organization helped armed Guatemalan rebels overthrew the Guatemalan government in 1954.
C.I.A.
The historical event by which colonies gained their independence.
decolonization
This country was the first to put a man on the moon.
United States of America
What economy promoted by the Soviet Union represented a centralized economy in which the government played a very big role?
Communism
This program industrialized the countryside, usually with small-scale factories and workshops, but with poor agricultural output leading to famines.
Great Leap Forward
This conflict included Cuba who briefly harbored Soviet nuclear missiles only 90 miles from Florida.
Cuban Missile Crisis
A policy of lessening Cold War tensions
Detente
This man gave the “Iron Curtain” speech about the division of Europe.
Winston Churchill
This word means to distribute (spread over an area) again, often in different ways or amounts.
redistribute
Who was the militarized group of mostly teenagers wanted to destroy the “Four Olds” of pre-Communist China: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas?
Red Guards
What is the disputed territory between India and Pakistan that started during the Cold War?
Kashmir
Nikita Khrushchev denounced Stalin for jailing and killing loyal Soviet citizens and his speech started this policy of purging the country of Stalin’s memory.
Destalinization
This policy was directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism.
Containment
What is the name of the first satellite sent to space by the Soviet Union?
Sputnik
Who was the President of the nationalist party, called the Guomindang (GMD)?
Sun Zhongshan
This country maintained a general neutrality in the Cold War until the 1970s, when they began to strengthen ties to the US.
Egypt
This five-year agreement, limited to 1972 levels the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles each country could have.
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) I Treaty
This assistance program would provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.
Marshall Plan
This term refers to if two countries each possessed the ability to obliterate the other, neither would risk an attack.
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
China joined this forum that were committed to not taking sides in the US.
Non-Aligned Nations
Who became the Congo’s first Prime Minister in 1960?
Patrice Lumumba
This popular and liberal Hungarian Communist leader formed a new government and he promised free elections and demanded Soviet troops leave.
Imre Nagy
What was the Soviet Union and its satellite states' answer to West Germany's rearmament and admission into NATO?
Warsaw Pact