Post WWII
the Cold War Begins
Post WWII China
Cold War Conflicts
Content Vocabulary
100

Who was the US President at the end of WII? 

Harry S. Truman 

100

What two superpowers were against each other during the Cold War? 

the Soviet Union versus the United States

100

Who was the leader of Communist China during the Great Leap Forward?

Mao Zedong

100

*content vocabulary* a war in which the powers in conflict use third parties such as substitutes instead of fighting each other directly

proxy war 

100

during the Cold War, the US and Soviet policies of holding huge arsenals of nuclear weapons to prevent war; each nation believed that neither would launch a nuclear attack since both knew that the other side could strike back with nuclear weapons

deterrence

200

*content vocabulary* building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy 

arms race
200

What was the name of the Eastern Europeans alliance during the Cold War? 

the Warsaw Pact 

200

*content vocabulary* in China during the 1950s, a group of collective farms, which contained more than 30,000 people working together 

commune

200

*content vocabulary* idea that if one country falls to communism, neighboring countries will also fall

domino theory 

200

building up armies and stores of weapons to keep up with an enemy

arms race

300

Describe the Marshall Plan

it gave financial assistance to countries needing helping with recovery after WWII

300

What was the name of the Westerns States alliance during the Cold War? 

the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

300

What happened to farmland in China under Communist rule? 

It was collectivized, peasant families could keep small plots of land for private use, but they worked together in large collective farms 
300

Who controlled Korea until 1945? 

Japan 

300

a plan to keep something, such as communism, within its existing geographical boundaries and to prevent further aggressive moves 

policy of containment 

400

Describe the Truman Doctrine

this stated that the United States would provide money to countries that were threatened by communist expansion

400

How many military alliances was the United States in around the mid-1950s? 

42

400

What two governments existed side by side in China at the end of World War II? And who led each side? 

The Nationalist government of Chiang Kai-shek, the Communist by Mao Zedong

400

Describe the Bay of Pigs

when the CIA planned for exiled Cuban fighters to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs in an attempt to incite a revolt against Castro 

400

a country that is economically and politically dependent on another country

satellite state

500

What is the name of the British and American efforts to fly supplies into Western Berlin? 

the Berlin Airlift 

500

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cold War? 

Nikita Khruschev 

500

What is the name of Mao's book? Often referred to as "a sort of bible for the Chinese Communists"

the Little Red Book 

500

Who was the president of the United States during the Vietnam War? 

President Lyndon B. Johnson

500

an atmosphere of constant revolutionary fervor favored by Mao Zedong to enable China to overcome the past and achieve the final stage of communism 

permanent revolution

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