Technological and Political Change
The largest nuclear weapon ever detonated.
What is the Czar Bomba?
Loosening of Restrictions in Czechoslovakia, was brutally suppressed by the Warsaw Pact troops.
What is the Prague Spring?
The Western Alliance built to guarantee defense in case of invasion.
What is NATO?
Kim Il Sung
Who is the leader of North Korea?
An individual the fights a war in an unconventional manner/
Who is a Guerilla Fighter?
Mao Zedong's failed attempt to modern and collective China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
A coup that attempted to put a more moderate government in Budapest that was crushed by soviet forces.
What is the Hungarian Revolution?
The Conference in which the plan for the division of Germany was made.
Fidel Castro
Who is the leader of Cuba?
Afghani fighter that fought the Soviet Invasion, in English in means Holy Warrior.
Who are the Mujahideen?
US aid meant to rebuild Europe after WW2, helped gain it large amounts of influence.
The Independence League that helped gain Indochina freedom in 1954.
Who are the Vietminh
The organization that formed the "3rd World" during the Cold War to keep out of the conflict.
What is the Association of Nonaligned States?
Ho Chi Minh
Who is the leader of North Vietnam?
The Communist group that took over Cambodia in 1975.
Who are the Khmer Rouge?
A technological competition between the US and USSR to develop new rockets and look beyond the earth.
What is the Space Race?
Conflict between two Middle Eastern states that killed over a million people in the 1980s
What is the Iran-Iraq War?
The dissolution of relations between the USSR and China.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split?
Ruhollah Khomeini
Who is the leader of Iran?
Soviet Era intelligence Agency
Who are the KGB?
The possibility of the world ending if any superpower fired a nuclear weapon at another superpower.
What is MAD or Mutually Assured Destruction
Refugees that fled from Vietnam after the culmination of the Vietnam War?
Who are the Boat People?
The conference toward the end of WW2 that divided Europe among the Allied Powers for influence.
What is the Yalta Conference?
Syngman Rhee
Who is the leader of South Korea?
American backed counter revolutionaries in Nicaragua.
Who were the Contras?