Cold War Begins
This term describes the division between communist Eastern Europe and democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This Communist leader used peasant support to win control of China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This line divided Korea into North and South after WWII.
What is the 38th parallel?
This Cuban leader overthrew Batista and later allied with the Soviet Union.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of communism.
What is containment?
This rival leader of the Nationalists fled to Taiwan after losing the civil war.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This general led UN forces during the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This 1962 event brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This program provided economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after WWII.
What is the Marshall Plan?
This new government was established by Mao in 1949.
What is the People’s Republic of China?
This idea suggested that if one country fell to communism, others would follow.
What is the domino theory?
These countries tried to stay neutral and not align with either superpower.
What are Nonaligned Nations? (Could also be Third World)
This event involved the U.S. flying supplies into West Berlin after a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This failed economic program led to famine and millions of deaths.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This Vietnamese leader led the communist North.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This country experienced an Islamic Revolution that overthrew a U.S.-backed leader.
What is Iran?
This military alliance was formed by the U.S. and Western Europe to counter Soviet power.
What is NATO?
This movement used Red Guards to enforce Mao’s ideology and target intellectuals.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This U.S. policy aimed to gradually withdraw troops and turn fighting over to South Vietnam.
What is Vietnamization?
This war involved the Soviet Union fighting rebels in Afghanistan during the 1980s.
What is the Soviet-Afghan War?