Origins of the Cold War
The Cuban Revolution and Missile Crisis
Key Terms
Leaders
The Chinese Revolution
100
This states that the U.S. will aid any countries actively resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Missiles in this island off the coast of Florida triggered an international crisis.
What is Cuba?
100
This term refers to the U.S. Cold War policy of preventing the spread of communism.
What is containment?
100
This WWII Soviet leader lied about allowing free elections in Eastern Europe after the war.
Who is Josef Stalin?
100
This man led the Chinese Revolution.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
East Germany was controlled by this country after WWII.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
This man led the Cuban Revolution in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
This theory argues that if one country falls to communism, all the others around it will as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
200
This U.S. president developed a cold war strategy of aiding countries resisting communism.
Who is Harry Truman?
200
This program sought to drastically increase Chinese output, but it ended in a disaster with over 30 million starved to death.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
300
This plan thought that providing economic assistance to European countries, the U.S. could prevent the spread of communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This is the name given to the failed U.S. invasion of Cuba attempting to overthrow the Castro regime.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
300
This is the term for reform in the Soviet Union that brought about openness in the government.
What is glasnost?
300
This U.S. president set-up a blockade against Cuba to prevent it from completing its missile bases.
Who is JFK?
300
This is a major difference between Chinese and Soviet communism.
What is peasants vs. factory workers; man power vs. machinery?
400
These were the two collective security organizations created in the Cold War.
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
400
The Soviets put missiles in Cuba to counter U.S. missiles in these countries (name two).
What is Turkey, Italy, or Great Britain?
400
This term refers to the economic restructuring of the Soviet Union during the mid 1980s.
What is perestroika?
400
This Vietnamese man led the North Vietnamese during the Vietnam war.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400
This program recommitted China to its communist values before being put down by Mao after getting out of hand.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
500
Disagreements at this WWII conference are generally considered the start of the Cold War.
What is the Yalta Conference?
500
This man was overthrown by the Cuban Revolution.
Who is Fulgencio Batista?
500
This refers to the condition during the cold war where both sides were capable of annihilating the other in nuclear war.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
500
This man was denied access to Disney World while visiting the U.S. Later he put missiles in Cuba out of frustration.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
This man led the Chinese nationalist forces to Taiwan to establish the Republic of China.
Who is Jiang Jieshi or Chang Kai-shek?
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