Cold War 1
This held many of the quotes and theories by Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung and was required by Chinese citizens to be carried.
What is the "Little Red Book"?
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Fidel Castro
Where North and South Korea agreed to split.
What is the 38th parallel?
This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.
What is the Vietnam War?
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
The symbolic division between western and eastern Europe during the period of the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Leader of the Soviet Union During Detente
Nikita Khrushchev
Failed takeover of the Communist Cuban goverments enacted by the U.S. Government.
Bay of Pigs Invasion
This Russian term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.
What is glasnost?
Popular leader of North Vietnam and also the name of the trail that stretched through out Indochina.
Who is Ho Chi Mihn?
Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.
What is NATO?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?
Define Detente
Reduction of tensions between the U.S and Soviet Union in the 1970s known as a period of "Relaxation"
What was the Marshall Plan?
U.S. containment policy giving huge amounts of money and military aid to help re-build non communist nations in Europe
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?
US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.
What is NASA?
First successful satellite in space.
What is Sputnik I?
Name two events the contributed to Nixon's success during Detente
Nixon's State Visit to the Soviet Union and Communist China.
What was Perestroika?
Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union.