Cold War
Who was the Cold War between?
USSR and USA
Who was the leader of Communist China?
Mao Ze Dong
What is the name of the program by Mikhail Gorbachev that created a restructuring of the government?
Perestroika
What is M.A.D
Mutually Assured Destruction
What type of warfare did the Vietnamese use during the conflict with the USA
Guerilla Warfare
What was the Foreign Policy of the United States called?
Containment
This is government program known as the pooling of farms and land to work together to produce grain.....it fails in both the USSR and in China
Collectivization
Who won the Cold War
USA
Who was the leader of Cuba during the Cold War?
Fidel Castro
Why did the USA go to war in Korea and Vietnam?
To contain the spread of Communism
This package was given to the countries of Greece and Turkey to fend of Communism
Truman Doctrine
This program made peasants and others build industry in their backyards and was a massive failure resulting in millions of deaths
The Great Leap Forward
Who was the President of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
What two countries did the USA have nuclear weapons on pointed at the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Turkey and Italy
What line seperates North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
What failed invasion caused chaos between the United States and the USSR in Cuba?
Bay of Pigs Invasion
The Soviets and Chinese both were communists but differed, what was different?
USSR: Industrial Working Class
Chinese: Agricultural working class
What was the theory that if Vietnam fell to Communism than all of Southeast Asia would fall
Domino Theory
What area of the world did the Marshall Plan help?
This was the name of the resolution that allowed the President to use neccessary force against the Vietnamese?
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
What is the term Detente mean?
Relaxation in Tensions
What was the name of the movement that turned teenage Chinese students into the followers of Mao and embrace the new communist ways
Cultural Revolution
What group were the Soviets fighting in Afghanistan?
Mujahedin
List two of the treaties that the Soviet Union and USA used to deter each other from building nuclear weapons
Who was the leader of Vietnam when the USA attacked
Ho-Chi-Minh