Eastern Europe
This was a military alliance between the USSR and most countries in Eastern Europe.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
This is a military alliance between the USA and most countries in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
Known as the "Man of Steel," this leader replaced Lenin and ruled the USSR until his death in 1953.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This attempt to modernize China in five year failed spectacularly due to impossible production quotas, poor planning, forced collectivization of farms, and a massive famine, among other reasons.
What is The Great Leap Forward?
The Korean War began with one country (region) invading another. What were the names of these two countries (regions).
What are North and South Korea?
This was the name given to the plan of the Soviet Union to give money to Eastern Europe to help Eastern Europe rebuild after WW2.
What is the Molotov Plan.
This was the name given to the decision of the United States to give money to Europe to help Europe rebuild after WW2.
What is The Marshal Plan?
This "war" was actually a competition for influence and control of the world between the USSR and the USA.
What is the Cold War?
These posters denounced revisionists and followers of the "four olds" during the Cultural Revolution.
What is a Da-Zi-Bao?
This international organization came to the aid of South Korea, sending an army composed of 16 nations to defend the country and eventually try to take over and reunite the Korean Peninsula.
What is the United Nations?
Name the three countries in Eastern Europe that revolted against Soviet control between 1956 and 1968.
What are Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Hungary.
This was the policy of the United States to prevent the spread of communism to any new countries.
What is The Truman Doctrine?
A form of Totalitarian Communism that includes a cult of personality of the leader, heavy censorship, and and total state control of the economy.
What is Stalinism?
Maoism drew a great deal of support from this group, which made up the majority of Chinese citizens.
What are peasants?
The country colonized The Congo until The Congo was given its independence in 1960.
What is Belgium?
This speech denounced Stalin and raised hopes in Eastern Europe that Stalinism might come to an end in Eastern European countries.
What is The Secret Speech?
The US airlifted thousands of tons of supplies over a soviet blockade during this event.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
This is when the leader of a country is presented through propaganda to be superhuman, perfect, and almost godlike.
What is a cult of personality?
This general lead the Nationalists side during the Chinese Civil War and, after losing the war retreated to Taiwan and became the dictator of that island.
Who is Chang Kai-shek?
This country supported prime minister Lumumba as he tried to prevent the Katanga province from seceding from The Congo.
What is the USSR?
The capital of Czechoslovakia. Hint: the revolt against soviet control of Czechoslovakia was called the _______ spring.
What is Prague?
The United State provided support to the capitalist's side of this civil war in Europe.
What is the Greek Civil War?
Name the first four leaders of the USSR.
Who is Lenin, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev.
Name three reasons why Mao decided to bring China into the Korean War (these can be reasons why he distrusted the US and/or general reasons).
What are: To prevent the US/UN army from getting too close to the Chinese boarder; to support the communist NKorean forces who were losing; because the US supported the nationalists against the communists during the Chinese civil war; The US prevented communist China from taking their seat at the UN security council; The US navy prevented communist China from invading Taiwan and reuniting all of China.
This man was the leader of the Congolese army and had prime minister Lumumba brutally murdered and became the dictator of The Congo.
Who is Mobutu?