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100

He was the U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

100

This country was divided at the 38th parallel.

What is Korea?

100
The Korean war started when ______ Korea invaded ________ Korea.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea
100
Under this Doctrine, the United States pledged to help nations threatened by communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine.
100

Economic and political systems of the U.S. vs. the USSR.

What is ideology?

200

This brutal leader of the Khmer Rouge ruled Cambodia.

Who is Pol Pot?

200

This battle ended French control in Vietnam.

What is Dien Bien Phu?

200

Mao’s plan to modernize China's economy quickly.

What is the Great Leap Forward?

200
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
200

Fear that if one nation falls to communism, others will follow.

What is the domino theory?

300
He developed the plan to rebuild Europe
George C. Marshall
300

This city was the site of a major Cold War standoff in Germany.

What is Berlin?

300

What was the dividing line between North and South Korea?

What is the 38th parallel.

300

This idea aimed to stop the spread of communism.

What is containment?

300

This economic measure indicates the value of all goods produced.

What is GDP?

400
Which leader wanted to reunify Korea under communist control?
Who is Kim Il Sung
400

This 1968 event turned U.S. opinion against the Vietnam War.

What is the Tet Offensive?

400

Leader of North Korea during the Korean War.

Who is Kim II Sung?

400

This military alliance was led by the U.S. during the Cold War.

What is NATO?

400

Policy of open discussion in the Soviet Union.

What is glasnost?

500

He led a peaceful fight for civil rights in the U.S.

Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?  

500

This was the last communist country to fall in Eastern Europe.

What is Romania?

500

Afghan fighters who resisted Soviet occupation.

Who are the mujahedin?

500

This U.S. plan gave economic aid to rebuild Europe.

What is the Marshall Plan?

500

Polish labor movement that helped end communism there.

What is Solidarity?

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