The leader of communist China
What is Mao Zedong?
The name of Ho Chi Minh's army in North Vietnam
What is the Vietcong?
The first manmade satellite in space
What is Sputnik?
Leader of the U.S. during the Cuban missile crisis
What is John F. Kennedy (JFK)?
The group that led the communist revolution in China
What is peasants?
The general that lead US and UN troops against North Korea
What is Douglas MacArthur?
The strategy/tactics used by the Vietcong against the US and South Vietnamese troops
What is guerilla tactics?
The first man in space
What is Yuri Gagarin?
What is Nikita Khrushchev?
The name of large collective farms and living spaces in communist China
What is communes?
The capital of South Korea
What is Seoul?
The justification for authorization of U.S. entry into Vietnam
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
First American to orbit Earth
What is John Glenn?
Leader of Cuba during the Cuban missile crisis
Fidel Castro
The failed five year plan in China (often referred to as The Giant Step Backward)
What is The Great Leap Forward?
The capital of North Korea
What is Pyongyang?
What is The Tet Offensive?
First man on the moon
What is Neil Armstrong?
Location of missiles other than Cuba during the crisis
What is Turkey?
A sociopolitical movement in China from 1966 to 1976 (led by the Red Guard)
What is the Cultural Revolution?
The nickname given to the Korean War in history
What is "The Forgotten War?"
President Nixon's policy to end the war by withdrawing troops in Vietnam
What is Vietnamization?
First American woman in space
What is Sally Ride?
Political policy during the crisis (on the edge of war)
What is brinkmanship?