Facts
vocabulary
Korean War
Acts, Alliances and Meetings
Misc.
100
Agent Orange was
The chemical sprayed in Vietnam to kill the plants and jungle vegetation
100
This is the term for the competition that developed between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What is the cold war.
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
When the Soviet Union blocked Berlin in 1948, what was ordered by President Truman to bring them aide?
What is the Berlin Airlift
200
He was the American General who led forces in Korea.
Who is Douglass MacArthur
200
This means going to the edge of war, preparing to fight, but never actually fighting
What is Brinkmanship
200
Why did North Korean think they could unify with South Korea.
The United States had completed their withdrawl.
200
This was an alliance centered around the Soviet Union and its satellite nations.
What is Warsaw Pact
200
As part of the resolution of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US secretly agreed to do what?
Remove US missiles from Turkey
300
The plan to rebuild Europe after World War 2
Marshall Plan
300
This is a policy of attempting to stop the spread of Communism around the world
What is Containment
300
What was the dividing line between North and South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel.
300
Location of the meeting between leaders from US, England, and USSR prior to the end of WW2
Yalta
300
The US joined this conflict when US boats were fired upon in the Gulf of Tonkin
What is the Vietnam War
400
The leaders of America and Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis
JFK and Castro
400
This is an imaginary line that Churchill had said descended upon Europe.
What is the iron curtain
400
_________ came to the aid of North Korea after the US pushed the North Koreans back across their common border
China
400
Alliance between democratic countries in case of a Soviet attack
What is NATO
400
Communes were created under Mao Zedong as part of his...
Great Leap Forward
500
He is the leader of Communist China
Mao Zedong
500
The idea that if one country fell to communism, others around it would also fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory
500
What does DMZ stand for and what is it?
Demilitarized Zone and it is the border between North and South Korea
500
Name of the group of fighters helped by the US during the Soviet Afghan War
Mujahideen
500
The name of the document that Mao Zedong created to teach his people about communism
What is the Little Red Book
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