Proxy Wars
This is the proxy war America (and Forrest Gump) was involved in for the 60s and 70s.
What is Vietnam?
This is what we call the competition to produce more weapons.
What is an arms race?
These are the two countries involved in the Cold War.
What are United States and Soviet Union?
This is what we call the tension and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
This was the city split in two after WW2?
What is Berlin?
This is the country to first send a satellite and a man into orbit.
What is the Soviet Union?
This was the leader of Chinese Communists when they came to power.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This was the near conflict in Latin America that brought the world very close to nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is the economic system supported by the Soviet Union.
What is communism?
This is the group created by Western nations to combat the Soviet Union for collective defense.
What is NATO?
These weapons caused the greatest fear during the Cold War.
What are nuclear weapons?
This is the major event that happened in Germany in 1989.
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
He was the first American to travel to space.
Who is Alan Shephard?
This was the end result of Chinese government after 1949.
What is a communist state?
This is the side supported by the Soviet Union in the Korean War.
What is North Korea?
What is the fall of the Berlin Wall?
This organization was formed after World War II to encourage cooperation between countries.
What is the United Nations?
What is containment?
Western nations flying in/dropping off supplies to get around a soviet blockade.
What was the Berlin airlift?
This was the first artificial satellite in space.
What is Sputnik?
These are the group of people that Chinese Communists gained support from.
What are peasants and workers?
The belief that countries would fall to communism one after another.
What is the domino theory?
What is Glasnost?
This policy was to support countries resisting communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
This is what happened when the Soviet Union collapsed.
What is the end of the Cold War?
The year the Berlin Wall was constructed.
What is 1961?
Communist leader of Cuba during the Cold War.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This is the program to rapidly industrialize and modernize China.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
This ended the Korean War.
What is an armistice?
This alliance was formed by the Soviet Union and its allies.
What is the Warsaw pact?
This gave economic aid to rebuild Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The economic system supported by the United States during the Cold War.
What is capitalism?
This is the soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This was the Strategic Defense Initiative (The Star Wars Program)
What was the program proposed by Reagan designed to create defenses against nuclear missiles?
Who are the Nationalists?