International Relations
This alliance includes what's commonly known as the "Western World" based in Europe and North America.
What is NATO?
This US organization basically overthrew almost every decolonized nation's government, or tried at least once. For example in Cuba, it was more than a thousand times they tried to kill Castro.
What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
What is Vietnam?
NATO flew in millions of tons of food and supplies to West Berlin during the blockade of Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
In 1960, this Soviet Leader decided to audibly and repeatedly bang his shoe on a table in the UN General Assembly when a delegate repeatedly insulted his rule.
This alliance was created in response to NATO containing the Eastern Bloc and the USSR, specifically excluded countries aligned with China.
What's the Warsaw Pact?
US was to go loco and annihilate every major populus city with nukes if attacked with nukes.
What is Mutually-Assured Destruction (MAD)?
The launch of Sputnik I and Sputnik II with the random stray-street mongrel Laika bolstered this country enough to threaten the US.
What is the USSR?
This leader founded the communist movement in Vietnam and headed the war against the US.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This country's first leader was Syngman Rhee.
What is South Korea?
This international organization has the following:
General Assembly, Security Council, Head Secretariat, International Court of Justice, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, and various specialized agencies.
Hint: It's composed of every country.
What is the United Nations?
For this faction, their goal was to overthrow the Communist puppet in Afghanistan and to expel the Soviet invaders.
What is the Mujahideen?
This country's Two Bombs, One Satellite program under Mao was finished pretty quickly in the 1960s.
What is China?
What is Spain?
Even though Albania was a communist and in Europe, due to Albania's affiliation with this country, the USSR broke relations with Albania in 1961.
What is China?
Strangely, the worst relations experienced during the Cold War wasn't between the US and USSR, it was between these two communist superpowers.
What is the Sino-Soviet Split? (If answered in a form of a question about anything having to do with China v. USSR, it's right.)
What is Neutrality?
This type of missile could carry a nuclear warhead, allowing a surface-to-surface strike with relative safety in the home country.
What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBMs)?
This African Nation subsequently won the Suez Crisis.
What is Egypt?
Although Germany and Berlin had quite the scene in the Cold War Stage, this country, although split into four zones with it's capital split into four zones as well post-WWII, was peacefully reunited and stayed neutral without care from NATO nor the Warsaw Pact.
What is Austria?
In fear of the major powers interfering with their country after decolonization, this alliance was created in an attempt to remain neutral in the Cold War. Ironically includes China, Cuba, and Yugoslavia, along with a substantial majority of decolonized nations known as the "Third Bloc".
What is the Non-Aligned Movement?
For the Nixon Administration, this foreign policy allowed them to take advantage of the Sino-Soviet Split, forging close ties with both the Soviets AND Chinese.
What is Detente? OR, What is Triangular Diplomacy?
Throughout the Cold War, the US assumed the worst in that they had this certain situation where both the "Free World" and "Communists" were equally outmatched.
What is the Zero Sum Game?
The CIA-backed death of the elected president Lumumba of this country made him the martyr for Anti-Colonial Resistance throughout the world.
Hint: Under the brutal dictatorship, this country's name changed to Zaire.
What is the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)? (If you said plain Kongo / Congo, that's fine)
In a strange turn of events, as the civil war progressed in this country, the USSR-backed communist faction became more democratic and capitalistic then the South Africa-backed faction.
Hint: This country borders South Africa today.
What is Mozambique?