Containment
What was America's containment policy?
Contain communism and not let it spread
Who was the leader of the communist party in China?
Mao Zedong
a competition to lead to world into space
Ho Chi Minh led which communist country?
North Vietnam
Who was the first person on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
What separated North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
Students protesting at Tiananmen Square wanted what?
Democracy
What was the reason for the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT)?
to reduce and limit the number of nuclear weapons
Fidel Castro was the leader of what communist country?
Cuba
Who were the 2 world power houses involved in the Cold War?
USSR and USA
What American General led US forced in WW1, WW2, and the Korean War?
General Douglas McArthur
Mao Zedong and the communist party battled what group in the Chinese Civil War?
Nationalists
Glasnost refers to what?
Openness and transparency
What was built to separate the capital city of Germany?
Berlin Wall
What was the name of the 1st satellite to orbit the Earch?
Sputnik
What failed military invasion of Cuba led to the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Bay of Pigs
What was the name of China's 5 year plan that promised economic developments and initiatives?
Great Leap Forward
What was the policy of Detente?
What was Apartheid?
Separation of races in South Africa
Who is credited with ending Apartheid?
Nelson Mandela
What was the name of the surprise attack by the Vietcong that turned the US public opinion heavily against the war?
Tet Offensive
What initiative did Mao Zedong bring forward that included the Red Guard and the Little Red Book?
Cultural Revolution
What two policies helped lead to reforms in the Soviet Union?
Glasnost and Perestroika
What policy provided financial, political, and military aid to countries being threatened by totalitarian countries?
Truman Doctrine
What was the Marshall Plan?
an economic package to Europe following WW2