a fight between the nationalists and the communists in China
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What is Sputnik
The worlds first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union
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who was the leader of Cuba during the cold war?
Fidel Castro
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who was the president of the U.S. during the cold war?
John F. Kennedy
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what were Red Guards?
a mass social movement of young people that were mobilized by Mao Zedong
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who were 3 leaders of the Soviet Union during the cold war?
Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, Mikhail Gorbachev if you named 3 of them you are correct
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was Cuba a communist country during the war?
yes
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which did the U.S.have first Hydrogen bomb or the Atomic bomb?
the Atomic bomb
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What was the Great Leap Forward?
Mao's plan to industrialize China
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what Compromise did Kennedy make with Khrushchev?
Soviet missiles will be removed from Cuba if the US does not invade Cuba
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What role did Cuba play in the development of the Cold War?
a considerable role. Cuban missile crisis
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who is Joseph MCcarthy?
The senator of Wisconsin he charged 205 State Department employees, and accused them of being communist party members but they were never proven
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what was the 38th parallel
Border set between North and South Korea at the beginning of the Korean War.
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What does U.S.S.R. stand for
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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what was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Failed invasion of Cuba in 1961 when a force of 1200 Cuban exiles backed by the United States landed in the Bay of Pigs.
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what was the Marshall Plan?
The American plan to help European nations rebuild their economies after World War II.
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The Korean War ended when the two sides signed a cease-fire in what year?
1953
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who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
A new Soviet leader who rose to power. He believed that only major reforms would let the Soviet system survive. He backed the glasnost, which would lead citizens to find solutions to pressing economic and social problems.
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what was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Major Cold War confrontation in 1962 Soviets building missile bases on Cuba atomic missiles could reach US within minutes.
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who is Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Citizens of the United States who were sentenced to death because they passed atomic bomb secrets to the Soviets