US president who escalated the Vietnam War, who took over after President Eisenhower and was preceded by President Johnson.
What is John F. Kennedy?
100
This descended across Europe, separating communist from non-communist countries.
What is the iron curtain?
100
Korea was divided along this latitude, where it remains divided today.
What is the 38th Parallel?
100
Organization that tried to prevent international conflict after WWII - included the US and the USSR.
What is United Nations?
100
Policy of going to the verge of war to get another country to give in to your demands.
What is brinkmanship?
200
US policy to shift responsibility for the war from US soldiers to Vietnamese soldiers.
What is vietnamization?
200
Leader of the south Vietnamese.
What is Ngo Dinh Diem?
200
Leader of the North Vietnamese.
What is Ho Chi Minh?
200
Hilariously named US missile defense program to shoot down nuclear weapons using lasers in space.
What is Star Wars?
200
South Vietnamese guerrilla army.
What is Viet Cong?
300
Alliance system created by the Soviet Union.
What is Warsaw Pact?
300
Leader of communist China.
What is Mao Zedong?
300
US policy to prevent the spread of communism abroad - the general policy, not the specific doctrine or plan.
What is containment?
300
US general who wanted to invade China during the Korean War, and was fired by Truman.
What is General MacArthur?
300
Plan to send money to countries in Eastern Europe to prevent the spread of communism.
What is Marshall Plan?
400
A treaty designed to reduce the number of active nuclear weapons in the world and prevent the creation of new ones.
What is SALT?
400
Doctrine that said that the United States should ensure that people get to choose their own governments and aren't being pressured, and that we should do so through monetary aid.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
400
The process of removing Stalin from every day life in Soviet Russia after his death.
What is destalinization?
400
Principle that prevents the use of nuclear weapons, because both sides would be destroyed through retaliation.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
400
Alliance system created by the western democracies.
What is NATO?
500
Meeting of US, UK, France, China and USSR to decide how to reunify Vietnam. They decided to divide it in half with the north controlled by communists, and the south by a provisional government,
What is Geneva Conference?
500
Last leader of Soviet Russia who tried to solve their economic problems and reopen the Soviet Union and restore the people's rights. He contributed to the end of the Cold War.
What is Gorbachev?
500
Massacre of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in a village that the US suspected was harboring Viet Cong guerrillas. Spread distrust through the US, and anger about the war.
What is My Lai Massacre?
500
Relaxation in tensions between the US, China and the USSR during the Cold War, later resulting in the end of the war.
What is detente?
500
Political opponent of Gorbachev who became the first president of the Russian Federation. He created a free market economy, but his rule was characterized by corruption and economic problems.