The Cold War Begins
This defensive military alliance was the Communist World's answer to NATO.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
This event is considered to be the "most dangerous 13 days in human history."
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
This policy resulted in the largest famine in human history.
What was The Great Leap Forward?
This U.S. President is credited with helping to end the Cold War, through his escalation of the Arms Race and later his willingness to negotiate with Gorbachev.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This refers to the division of the Indian subcontinent between India and Pakistan upon independence in 1947.
What is Partition?
This defensive military alliance was formed in the aftermath of the Berlin Airlift, with the goal of containing the spread of Communism.
What is NATO/North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
This city became the center of Cold War conflict when Stalin ordered a blockade of its capitalist-backed Western half.
What is Berlin?
This was the last Major policy campaign launched by Mao. He turned China's youth into an army working to support him.
What was The Cultural Revolution?
This person was the last leader of the Soviet Union, before its collapse in 1991.
Who was Gorbachev?
This was one of the most successful mass protest movements in India, led by Gandhi in 1931.
What is The Great Salt March?
This American program gave billions of dollars to European countries to help them recover from WWII. *It is an economic example of containment*
What is the Marshall Plan?
This proxy war led to a large failure of the Containment policy when the country was unified under communist control in 1975.
What was Vietnam?
This was the first policy put in place when Mao and the CCP took power. It greatly improved life for Chinese women.
What was the Marriage Reform?
While Eastern European countries were opening up and rejecting communist rule, China showed they had no intention of doing so when peaceful protesters were attacked during this event.
What was The Tiananmen Square Massacre?
This group was made up of newly independent states in the developing world that did not want to ally with the U.S. or the Soviet Union.
What is The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM)?
This was the Soviet answer to the Marshall Plan. *Although it sounds the same, this was not a comic book convention*
What is Comecon?
This proxy war began with the Communist North invading the U.S.-backed South.
What is The Korean War?
After their defeat in the Civil War, Chiang Kai-Shek and the GMD fled to this island.
What was Taiwan?
This policy put in place by Gorbachev translates to "openness" and allowed for more free speech in the Soviet Union and satellite states.
What is Glasnost?
This 1919 incident took place in the holiest city for Sikhs and shocked the world, leading to more support for Indian independence.
What is The Amritsar Massacre?
Winston Churchill gave this speech in March 1946, warning the U.S. that the Soviet Union was a serious threat.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This decade-long conflict is referred to as the "Soviet's Vietnam."
What is The Soviet-Afghan War?
Moa and the CCP took power in 1949 after defeating the GMD in the second round of the civil war. The GMD was led by this person.
Who is Chiang Kai-Shek?
This policy put in place by Gorbachev translates to "economic restructuring" and started to open the Soviet Union to free market competition.
What is Perestroika?
This speech, given by the British Prime Minister in 1960, signaled an end to imperialist policy.
What is "The Winds of Change?"