Vocab
The policy of preventing the spread of communism by supporting nations resisting it.
What is Containment? Q5
The leader of Communist China
Who was Mao Zedong? Q9
This war began in 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea.
What was the Korean War? Q14
The military alliance formed by the U.S. and Western European democracies.
What was NATO? Q7
The island where Chinese Nationalists fled after losing the civil war.
What is Taiwan? Q10
The U.S. economic program to rebuild European countries after WWII.
What was the Marshall Plan? Q2
The leader of Communist North Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh? Q17
The 1962 standoff between the USA and USSR over nuclear missiles.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis? Q16
The Soviet response to NATO, a military alliance of communist nations.
What was the Warsaw Pact? Q7
The Asian country that was disarmed after WWII but recovered quickly with U.S. support.
What was Japan? Q25
The belief that if one country in Asia fell to communism, others would follow.
What was the Domino Theory? Q18
The leader who reversed many of Mao’s policies to improve China’s economy (make reforms)
Who was Deng Xiaoping? Q13
The 1968 uprising in Czechoslovakia that was crushed by Soviet troops.
What was Prague Spring? Q8
The U.S. presidential doctrine that aimed to support nations fighting communism.
What was the Truman Doctrine? Q5
The war that ended in 1975 with the unification of this country under communism.
What was Vietnam? Q19
The failed Chinese initiative to industrialize using small-scale industries and collectivized agriculture.
What was the Great Leap Forward? Q11
This leader's speech during a 1963 event brought national attention to the civil rights movement in the U.S.
Who was Martin Luther King Jr.? Q21
The 1956 attempt to break free from Soviet control.
What was the Hungarian Revolution? Q8
The treaties that limited the number of nuclear weapons owned by the USA and USSR.
What were the SALT Treaties? Q23
During the Korean War, this country entered the conflict after UN forces pushed North Korean troops too close to its border.
What was China? Q14
The Polish labor movement that opposed communist leadership.
What was Solidarity? Q28
The Soviet leader who introduced Perestroika and Glasnost.
Who was Mikhail Gorbachev? Q27
The Soviet invasion of this country in 1979 led to a U.S. Olympic boycott and escalated Cold War tensions.
What was Afghanistan? Q24
The two key policies introduced by Gorbachev to reform the Soviet Union.
What were Perestroika and Glasnost? Q27
The four Asian countries that experienced rapid economic growth in the 1960s due to cheap labor.
What were South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong? Q26