Cold War
Cuba
Korean War
Vietnam War
Miscellaneous
100
Program that sent thousands of American volunteers to developing countries.
What is the Peace Corps?
100
The leader of Cuba who led a revolution in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
Describe how the Korean War started.
What is North Korea invaded South Korea?
100
Describe how the Vietnam War started.
What is the communist North Vietnamese invaded the South?
100
This person became President of Russia after the Soviet Union broke up.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?
200
President Nixon's policy that brought better relations with communist countries.
What is detente?
200
This country put missiles on Cuba.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
The communist side of this war was South or North Korea?
What is North Korea?
200
Those who were against American involvement in Vietnam.
What are doves?
200
Senator who charged that there were communist spies in the US government and Army.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
300
Wall that prevented people from the East from fleeing to the West of the city.
What is the Berlin Wall?
300
This US President demanded that the missiles be removed from Cuba.
Who is President Kennedy?
300
Name who was supporting South Korea.
What is the UN and the USA?
300
The side of Vietnam that was communist.
What is North Vietnam?
300
Name what many Asian and African countries demanded after WWII.
What is independence?
400
Treaty between the USA and the Soviet Union in which they agreed to reduce the number of nuclear warheads and missiles made.
What is the SALT Agreeement?
400
This crisis almost brought us to the brink of what?
What is nuclear war?
400
The 38th parallel.
What is the line dividing North and South Korea?
400
Those who were for American involvement in Vietnam.
What are hawks?
400
The policy that allowed people in the Soviet Union to speak openly and honestly.
What is glastnost?
500
Define the Cold War.
What is a long bitter rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union which began after WWII?
500
This country backed down at the last minute. What did they have to do?
What is the Soviet Union? What is remove the missiles from Cuba?
500
State how the war ended.
What is we pushed North Korea back across the 38th parallel and kept South Korea free?
500
Describe how the Vietnam War ended.
What is the USA pulled out of the country and the North Vietnamese took over the South within two years.
500
The idea that if communists took control of one country in Asia, the others would fall to communism as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
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