COMMUNIST CHINA
ODDS AND ENDS
RANDOM TRIVIA
INDOCHINA
UNITED NATIONS
100
In 1934-35 Mao led his troops on this
What was the Long March?
100
These were used as currency in Germany between 1945 and 1948
What are cigarettes (Lucky Strikes?)
100
The CIA tried these phallic tubes to kill Castro
What are cigars?
100
He was leader of the Vietminh
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
100
The organization's charter was drafted in 1945 in this city
What is San Francisco?
200
This was the name of the Communist army under Mao
What was the PLA (Peoples Liberation Army)
200
In a famous photo taken after Japan surrendered in 1945, these two men looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito
Who was McArthur and Hirohito?
200
American pilots dropped these out of planes for little German kids during the Berlin airlift
What is candy?
200
The French lost this battle in Vietnam in 1954
What was Dien Bien Phu?
200
The Security Council has five permanent members, US, Russia, France, Great Britain and this World War II ally
What is China?
300
After communism was established in China women were allowed to do this
What is study?
300
Referring to Germany, this British leader said "we slaughtered the wrong pig"
What was Churchill?
300
She burned up in space in 1957
Who was Laika, the Soviet dog?
300
Vietnam was divided into north and south at this parallel
What is the 17th?
300
In 1947 the General Assembly approved partition of this Middle Eastern country
What is Palestine?
400
Chiang Kai-shek was the leader of this political party
What was the Chinese Nationalist Party (Kuomintang)
400
The cars in occupied Japan ran on this fuel
What is coal?
400
American and Soviet emissaries met here in Washington DC during the Soviet Missile Crisis to make a deal
What is a Chinese restaurant?
400
He was US Secretary of State at the Geneva talks after the first Indochina War in 1956
Who was John Foster Dulles?
400
The UN's primary military mandate
What is peacekeeping?
500
At "Speak Bitterness Meetings", peasants did this
What is "denounce their landlords"
500
After Sputnik, a failed American satellite launch was dubbed this
What is "Flopnik?"
500
What was the Beatles' song about the Cold War?
What is "Back in the USSR?"
500
After the partition of Vietnam, the US propped up the government of this corrupt anti-Communist
What was (Ngo Dinh) Diem?
500
He was first General Secretary
Who was Trygve Lie
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