Who was to blame for the Cold War?
Vietnam War
USA - 1919-1929
Korean War
USA - 1929-1939
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Who is this man, and what country did he lead until 1953 ?
Joseph Stalin, USSR.
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Which country controlled Vietnam as a colony before the Second World War?
France
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What name was given to this type of 'new women', who enjoyed the latest fashion, dancing, going out at night, and drinking.
Flapper
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Who was the first leader of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in 1950?
Kim Il-Sung
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In 1929 which economic event led to a massive decline in the American Economy, and a further international decline known as the Great Depression.
The Wall Street Crash
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The name for the competition between the USA and the USSR to get more and more powerful weapons.
Arms Race
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What name is given to the tactics used by the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War?
Guerrilla tactics
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What is this, and which group of people did it affect during the 1920s? Why?
Boll Weevil - Farmers were affected across the mid-west and the South of the USA as massive infestations destroyed Cotton Crop.
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In 1945, the dividing line between the Soviet and American zones of Korea were set here. This became the border between the North and the South.
The 38th Parallel
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Businessmen who made money by buying shares in growing companies, and selling these shares on later for profit.
Speculators
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The name given to the concept which prevented the use of Nuclear Weapons during the Cold War.
Mutually Assured Destruction
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Which major communist offensive took place in January 1968? What impact did this have?
Tet Offensive - The surprise attack shocked Americans, who were being told America was easily winning the war and that it would be over soon.
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15 million of these had been manufactured by 1927
The Ford Model T
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By September 1950, North Korean forces had pushed UNO forces all the way to here.
Busan
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Massive makeshift homeless encampments made up of unemployed people. These sprang up all over the country.
Hoovervilles
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The policy of trying to prevent communism from spreading further, not pushing it back.
Containment
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Where did 2,000 students hold a demonstration against the Vietnam War in 1970? How did the authorities respond?
Kent State University. The National Guard were called to brake up the protestors, and four people were killed.
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An agricultural worker who passes on a share of his crop to the landowner in return for land to farm.
A sharecropper
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Approximately how many Koreans died as a result of the Korean War?
4 Million
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Which organisation was established as part of FDRs 'New Deal' to provide jobs for unemployed people by initiating major construction projects?
The Public Works Administration
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Which organisation did the USSR establish in 1949 to coordinate the economies of communist countries?
Comecon
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Which agreement, signed in 1973, formally ended direct US military involvement in the Vietnam War?
The Paris Peace Accords
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During the 'Monkey Trial', biology teacher John Scopes was tried for teaching school children about what?
Darwin's Theory of Evolution - This upset southern fundamentalists, who strongly believe the life had been created by God.
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A key American area of interest in the East Asia. There was fear that a successful conquest of South Korea could encourage a further attack here.
Formosa - Now known as Taiwan.
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A popular radio evangelical priest who founded the Union for Social Justice, and opposed FDR's New Deal as he believed not enough was being done to help the poor.
Father Charles Coughlin
