Terrorism
This 2001 attack on America changed the world forever.
What is 9/11?
These two US Presidents are considered to be responsible for the end of the Cold War.
Who are George H.W. Bush and Ronald Reagan?
This president came up with the idea of Detente.
The United States supported this side in the Vietnam War.
What is South Vietnam?
The United States did this after the Russians closed all the roads going into Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This group led by Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.
What is Al Qaeda?
This Russian leader is considered to be responsible for ending the Cold War.
Who is (Mikhail) Gorbachev?
This is what Detente means.
What is an easing of tensions with the Soviet Union (Russia)?
The US used this aerial technology extensively to fight in the Vietnam War.
What are airplanes?
This early proxy war saw the Communists fighting the Nationalists in this country.
What is China?
Al Qaeda was based in this Central Asian country near Pakistan.
What is Afghanistan?
The fall of this wall signaled the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Nixon visited this city which was the capital of the Soviet Union.
What is Moscow?
The North Vietnamese used these types of tactics to fight against America.
What are Guerilla Tactics?
This was a period where Americans were paranoid of Communists destroying the American government.
What is the (2nd) Red Scare?
What is Iraq?
These two Russian reforms led to the end of the Cold War.
What are glasnost and perestroika?
Nixon visited this country who had been Communist since their civil war in the 1940s.
What is China?
This is how most Americans felt about the Vietnam War.
What is they hated it?
This event was the closest that the USA and Russia ever came to WWIII.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Iraqi leader was accused of harboring terrorists and providing them with Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Who was Saddam Hussein?
Eastern Europe got rid of communism for this reason.
What is they did not like communism (it sucked)?
Detente led to a decrease in this kind of weapon in both the US and Soviet Union.
What are nuclear weapons?
What are the Pentagon Papers?
This American General was fired for wanting to nuke China.
Who was Douglas MacArthur?