Category One
Who was the first Soviet dictator?
What was so symbolic about the Berlin Wall?
It simply symbolized the Cold War and separated the world.
What "line" divided the North and South Koreans?
The 38th parallel.
What did the Korean War change? What did the Vietnam War change?
NOTHING
What are guerrilla fighters?
Fighters that perform hit-and-run tactics on an enemy.
Which president despised communism more and any other?
Ronald Reagan.
Who invented communism?
Karl Marx
Who was the president at the very beginning of the Cold War?
Harry S. Truman
By 1949, communism had spread to China, who was their leader?
Mao Zedong.
Define armistice.
Peace talks to make a truce.
Define perjury.
Lying under oath.
What was Ho Chi Minh City formally known as? Why did it change?
Saigon, because the North Vietnamese captured it.
What is communism?
A political theory in which all property is publicly owned and people are paid accordingly based on their needs and abilities.
What is containment?
A strategy of containing communism within a specific border
What was the Berlin Airlift and why was it necessary?
A US plane that flew supplies into Berlin. This was because Berlin was in the center of the Soviet zone.
What is the Peace Corps?
American program set up by Kennedy where US citizens would volunteer to aid underdeveloped nations.
Who was the communist dictator of Cuba?
Fidel Castro.
How did the US draft work?
Young men ages 18-35 were chosen randomly by their birthday. It was televised in the US from a giant bingo wheel where they would pick a birthday and everyone with that birthday had togo to Vietnam.
What is the "iron curtain?"
A wall of Soviet Nations casting an evil shadow on Europe.
What is the definition of a superpower in global politics?
Nations with immense political and military power to influence events world wide.
What was the first satellite sent into space called? Who won the "Space Race?"
Sputnik (Soviet). The US because the Space Race was the race to see what country could get to the moon first.
What was general McArthur's decision on how to defeat North Korea during the Korean War?
To attack China.
What was the Tet Offensive?
It was a group of attack on the US embassy in Saigon. It occurred on the Vietnamese New Year, called the “Tet.” The Tet Offensive proved that even though the US had half a million troops in Vietname, the Vietcong could still do whatever they wanted.
What is martial law?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Emergency military rule over a country.
What is a satellite nation?
A nation that is dominated politically and economically by a more powerful nation. For example, Yugoslavia was a satellite nation of the Soviet Union.
Following WWII and into the Cold War, what were the four zones that Germany (and Berlin) were divided into?
French zone, American zone, British zone, and Soviet zone.
What does NATO stand for and what is its purpose, both today and at the time of the Cold War?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is/was used to prevent large-scale war and contain Soviet influences.
What is the difference between the People's Republic of China and the Federal Republic of China?
People’s Republic of China = mainland China, communist, “fake” China.
Federal Republic of China = Taiwan, non-communist, original China.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
Americans tried to escort thousands of Cuban migrants to the US and failed due to Cuban backlash. It is the most fighting a Soviet influenced country did to the US.
What is the SALT agreement and what did it do?
Strategic Arms Limitations Talks. It was instituted by Nixon to limit the amount of atomic power the superpowers had.
How long did the Cold War last EXACTLY?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
45 years
There are two African nations that were never colonized by Europeans, give me one of them.
Ethiopia and Liberia.
What did the Warsaw Pact do? Who did each country have to report out to?
It forced Soviet neighbors to follow Soviet rule. All countries involved in the Warsaw Pact had to report to Moscow.
Why did many South American nations turn towards communism?
There was a large wage difference between the rich and poor. Many poor citizens of South American nations believed it was a solution.
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics Space Administration.
Lyndon B. Johnson lost reelection in 1968 to a man whose stance was to end the Vietnam War. Who is the man?
Richard Nixon.
Name three leaders of the Soviet Union (only need last names)
Joseph Stalin, Georgy Malenkov, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
Who did Harry S. Truman lose reelection to?
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Give me two countries that were involved in the Warsaw pact.
Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
Who were the presidents in between Nixon and Reagan?
Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter.
Who was the leader of Britain at the beginning of the Cold War?
Winston Churchill.
Name every country apart of the Soviet Union
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