Cold War Begins
Korea
Communist China under Mao
Vietnam & Cambodia
Random
100
Conference during WWII (Feb. 1945); meeting of Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt; Stalin wanted control of Eastern Europe
What is Yalta?
100
Line of latitude where Korea was divided following WWII
What is the 38th parallel?
100
Mao won the support of this group of people which helped him defeat the Nationalists in China
Who are the peasants?
100
European country that Ho Chi Minh first fought against, to drive out imperialists
What is France?
100
communist rebels trying to overthrow South Vietnam’s government.
What is the Vietcong?
200
Stalin supported Communist rebels in these two countries (not within his block in Eastern Europe)
What is Turkey and Greece?
200
This nation's troops helped the North Koreans fight the war
What is China?
200
Program from 1958-1960 in China; an effort to boost industrial output; led to millions starving to death
What is the Great Leap Forward?
200
Leader of the Communists in Vietnam
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
200
Each side knew that the other side would itself be destroyed if it launched its weapons—discouraged nuclear war.
What is mutually assured destruction?
300
policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The world's most heavily armed border
What is the DMZ?
300
Mao called on the nation’s youth to purge the “impure” elements of Chinese society; led to millions of deaths
What is the Cultural Revolution?
300
the view that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism,
What is the Domino Theory?
300
Came to power in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death
Who is Nikita Kruschev?
400
United States plan to give food and economic assistance to Europe to help countries rebuild.
What is the Marshall Plan?
400
South Korea's leader who was supported by the US
Who was Syngman Rhee?
400
Where the Nationalists under Jiang Jieshi fled to
What is Taiwan?
400
authorized the President to take all necessary measures to prevent further aggression in Southeast Asia.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin resolution?
400
Leader of Khmer Rouge, helped orchestrate the Cambodian genocide
Who is Pol Pot?
500
Mutual-defense alliance between the Soviet Union and seven satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
North Korean dictator who provoked the Korean War, communist
Who is Kim Il Sung?
500
Massive government owned farms that were also used to produce steel during the Great Leap Forward
What are communes?
500
force of Cambodian communist guerrillas, gained ground in Cambodia.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
500
German city that was divided during the Cold War period
What is Berlin?
M
e
n
u