This country enjoyed great economic success in the second half of the 1900s, thanks to a progressive GDP and a trade surplus.
What is Japan?
100
This was the fear of communism gaining roots from within the United States
What is the Red Scare?
100
Last leader of the Soviet Union
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
100
This line symbolized the ideological fighting and physical boundary that separated Europe into 2 during the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
100
Communist revolutionary and long time leader of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
China's communist revolutionary and long time leader.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
Leader of U.N. forces in Korea for the first half of the Korean War.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
200
The Soviets went to war in this country for a decade beginning in 1979.
What is Afghanistan?
200
A barrier constructed by East Germany that completely cut off West Germany from the surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
This attempted invasion of U.S. trained Cuban exiles aimed at taking down Fidel Castro and the Communist Government of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
300
This movement urged people in China to make big improvements in agriculture and industry, but failed miserably.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
300
View that communist victory in South Vietnam would cause noncommunist governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism.
What is the Domino Theory?
300
This division of Germany became allied with the U.S.S.R., became a member of the Warsaw Pact, and was communist.
What is East Germany?
300
This country in West Europe became reunited at the end of the Cold War.
What is Germany?
300
This is when Cuba and the U.S.S.R. began building bases and transporting nuclear weapons to Cuba, an area that a missile could be launched from to hit the U.S.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
Good relations with China and the United States allowed the U.S. to "play this card" against the U.S.S.R. in the mid-late 1900s.
What is the "China card?"
400
Resolution passed in 1964 that authorized the President to take all necessary measures to prevent further aggression in Southeast Asia.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
400
Give a reason for the collapse of the Soviet economy.
Lack of incentive to work, etc.
400
These countries remained divided at the end of their war in the early 1950s.
What is North and South Korea?
400
This refers to the U.S. and the U.N. not allowing communism to expand, holding it to the areas it was already in.
What is Containment?
500
Leader of China in the 1980s that brought them closer to a market economy.
Who is Deng Xiaoping
500
Country derived from Germany that received assistance from the United States after WWII?
What is West Germany?
500
Period of relaxed tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the 1970s.
What is Detente?
500
Communist rebels in South Vietnam who sought to overthrow South Vietnam's government; received assistance from North Vietnam
What is Viet Cong?
500
Attack by the Communist Guerillas on the South Vietnamese and American forces on the Vietnamese New Year, 1968.