Communist China
After losing the Chinese Civil War, the Nationalists fled to this island.
What is Taiwan?
This Cuban revolutionary overthrew Batista in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This war divided Korea into communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.
What is the Korean War?
This wall, torn down in 1989, symbolized the end of communist control in Eastern Europe.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The United States and Soviet Union competed in this race involving rockets and satellites.
What is the Space Race?
Mao believed this group—not urban workers—would drive the communist revolution in China.
Who are peasants?
The U.S.-backed invasion by Cuban exiles that failed to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This Vietnamese nationalist leader fought French colonial rule and later the United States.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This Soviet leader introduced the reforms known as glasnost and perestroika.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This military alliance was formed in 1949 by the United States and Western allies.
What is NATO?
Mao’s economic campaign that caused widespread famine and starvation.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This Guatemalan president attempted land reform before being overthrown in a U.S.-supported coup.
Who is Jacobo Árbenz?
During the Vietnam War, the United States bombed these neighboring countries as well.
What are Cambodia and Laos?
The process by which colonies gained independence from imperial powers.
What is decolonization?
The Soviet Union launched this first artificial satellite into orbit in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
Mao launched this movement in 1966 using Red Guards to attack “counterrevolutionaries.”
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This socialist Chilean president nationalized copper industries before being removed in a coup.
Who is Salvador Allende?
The Khmer Rouge leader responsible for genocide in Cambodia.
Who is Pol Pot?
This ideology united people in colonies around the goal of self-rule and independence.
What is nationalism?
These long-range weapons could carry nuclear warheads across continents during the Cold War.
What are ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles)?
During the Cultural Revolution, these student groups violently targeted teachers and officials.
Who are the Red Guards?
This Chilean dictator ruled after the 1973 coup and used repression against opponents.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam were known by this name.
Who are the Viet Cong?
Soviet-controlled countries like Poland and Hungary were often described with this term.
What are satellite states?
This competition between the United States and Soviet Union involved building increasingly powerful nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?