Cold War Origins
This 1945 meeting divided Germany into occupied zones and included promises of free elections in Eastern Europe.
What is the Yalta Conference?
This Communist leader helped found the Chinese Communist Party and led China after 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
After World War II, Korea was divided at this line of latitude.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This Communist leader founded the Viet Minh and led North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
This revolutionary overthrew Cuba’s U.S.-backed dictator in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
A struggle between superpowers without direct large-scale warfare.
What is the Cold War?
Dr. Seuss wrote these numbered characters
Who are thing one and thing two?
Winston Churchill used this phrase to describe the division between Communist Eastern Europe and Democratic Western Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This Nationalist leader fled to Taiwan after losing the Chinese Civil War.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
This Communist country supported North Korea and later sent 300,000 troops.
What is China?
This belief said if one country fell to Communism, nearby nations would follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
This failed 1961 CIA-backed invasion embarrassed the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The competition between the U.S. and Soviet Union to build more powerful weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
This actor played Tom "Iceman" Kazansky in Top Gun
Who is Val Kilmer?
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of Communism by blocking Soviet influence.
What is Containment
This 1950 law redistributed land from wealthy landowners to peasants.
What is the Agrarian Reform Law?
President Truman called the Korean War this because it was fought without a formal declaration of war.
What is a Police Action?
This resolution gave President Johnson broad war powers after reported attacks on the USS Maddox.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
This 1962 event brought the world close to nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This first unmanned Soviet satellite increased Cold War tensions in 1957.
What is Sputnik?
This person wrote the Fault in Our Stars
Who is John Green
This U.S. aid program helped rebuild Europe with food and machinery after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Mao’s economic plan to rapidly industrialize China through communes was called this.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This U.S. general was removed after suggesting nuclear war against China.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
This 1968 surprise attack on Vietnamese New Year involved attacking 100 South Vietnamese cities
What is the Tet Offensive?
To resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba while the U.S. secretly removed missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
A government-controlled economic system in which businesses are owned by the state.
What is a nationalized economy?
This band released the Blue album in 1994
Who is Weezer?
This 1948–49 event supplied West Berlin by air after Stalin blockaded the city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This movement used Red Guards to purge “intellectuals” and strengthen Mao’s power.
What is the Cultural Revolution
The 1953 agreement ending major fighting created this buffer zone between North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone at the 38th Parallel?
This Nixon policy gradually withdrew U.S. troops while South Vietnam took over more fighting.
What is Vietnamization?
This alliance, formed in 1949, united the U.S., Canada, and Western Europe.
What is NATO?
This Communist Cambodian regime under Pol Pot killed nearly 1.7 million people.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
This Quarterback won the heisman trophy in 2019 and the National Championship in 2020
Who is Joe Burrow?