Cold War: Superpowers Face Off
Communists Take Power in China
Wars in Korea and Vietnam
Cold War Divides the World
The Cold War Thaws
100
This was the division between East and West Germany
What is Iron Curtain
100
Leader of the Nationalist forces
Who is Jiang Jieshi
100
The line that divides North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel
100
These consisted of developing nations, newly independent, and not aligned with either superpower.
What is Third World
100
The Soviet leader who denounced Stalin for jailing and killing loyal Soviet citizens
Who is Nikita Krushchev
200
This was an international organization that was intended to protect the members against aggression
What is the United Nations
200
These were the names of collective farms in which peasants had to live and work
What is communes
200
This is the general that wanted a nuclear attack against China and tried to go over the president's head by taking it to Congress
Who is Douglas MacArthur
200
Muslim leader who opposed Western influences and was living in exile
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini
200
The name of the policy of lessening Cold War tensions
What is detente
300
This is the foreign policy adopted by President Truman, aimed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism.
What is containment
300
According to the Red Guards, this was considered the new "hero" who worked with his hands
What is peasants
300
Southeast Asian nations were compared to this, President Eisenhower said. The fall of one to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors.
What is domino theory
300
Iran's leader who embraced Western governments and wealthy Western oil companies
Who is Shah Reza Pahlavi
300
He was the U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy
400
This was the assistance program that would provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe
What is Marshall Plan
400
This person was the religious leader of Tibet
Who is the Dalai Lama
400
This was Nixon's plan that allowed U.S. troops to gradually pull out of Vietnam
What is Vietnamization
400
Failed invasion by anti-Castro Cuban exiles that waited for U.S. air support and never showed
What is Bay of Pigs
400
This was the German word meaning "realistic politics"
What is realpolitik
500
This is the acronym for NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
500
This is where Jiang Jieshi fled to, and where the United States helped him set up a Nationalist government
What is Taiwan
500
These were the Communist rebels in Cambodia that slaughtered 2 million people
What is Khmer Rouge
500
He was the Sandanista leader
Who is Daniel Ortega
500
He was the Czech Communist leader under which Czechoslovakia underwent a period of reform known as the Prague Spring
Who is Alexander Dubcek
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