Postwar Confrontation
What metaphor, coined by Winston Churchill, represented the division between the Communist world and the free world?
iron curtain
Who was the most visible spokesman for the civil rights movement in the 1960s?
Martin Luther King Jr.
This was the parallel that marked the border between North and South Korea.
38TH Parallel
Charles de Gaulle helped bring about the 5th Republic's constitution which provided for a _____?
strong president
Who seized power in Cuba in 1959 and allied his country with the Soviet Union?
Fidel Castro
What began in 1949 when the Soviets developed their first atomic bomb?
arms race
What were the limited wars of the Cold War?
conflicts between two small powers each backed by either the Soviet Union or the United States
Who was the Communist leader of Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
After an attack on American warships in the Gulf of Tonkin, Congress effectively authorized the president to fight a war where?
Vietname
What was the name of the failed invasion of Cuba by CIA-trained Cuban exiles?
Bay of Pigs
What was the military alliance called that included Russia and its satellite states in Eastern Europe?
Warsaw Pact
What happened at Tiananmen Square?
Chinese students started a demonstration - not a protest there's a difference
Ho Chi Minh
Who declined to run for reelection because of his unpopular policies in Vietnam?
Lyndon B. Johnson
the Berlin Wall
What is the name for the free world's military alliance in Europe that is headed by the United States?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
Who commanded the UN forces in Korea?
General Douglas Macarthur
What is the domino theory and did it prove to be true?
if Vietnam fell to communism, then other countries of Asia would fall like dominos. – which proved to be true
Which radical islamic group developed during the first intifada as a more radical Islamic counterpart to the PLO?
Hamas
What was the U-2 incident?
When an American spy plane was shot down by the Soviets
What was the long term purpose of the Marshall Plan?
to thwart any advance of communism in Western Europe by rebuilding those countries economically
What was the purpose of the Cultural Revolution?
renew zeal of the Chinese revolution
What was Viet Cong?
a group of Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam
Why was the Text Offensive important?
because the American public turned against the war effort
What U.S. president gradually reduced American involvement in Vietnam through a program called Vietnamization?
Richard Nixon