Communist Leaders
Containment Policy
Cold War Conflicts
Communist Reforms
Cold War Relations
100
Successor of Stalin, opposed Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Khrushchev
100
A massive round-the-clock transportation of necessary goods into Soviet occupied Germany by the Allies in 1948
What is the Berlin Airlift
100
The US opposed the Vietcong in this Southeast Asian country
What is Vietnam
100
Stalin's attempt to rapidly industrialize the Soviet Union in a short period of time.
What is the Five Year Plans
100
An alliance of 10 regional countries that pledged to help one another in the event of an attack by the Soviet Union
What is NATO
200
Soviet President who wanted to avoid Cold-War conflict. Ushered the Soviet Union into collapse
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
200
Using military resistance to limit the spread of Communism to areas already under Soviet control.
What is the Truman Doctrine
200
The US opposed Chinese supported troops in this conflict that began along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War
200
Mao Zedong created this plan to improve the food production in China
What is the Great Leap Forward
200
50 nations convened to draft a charter for representation and greater ability to act in world affairs.
What is the United Nations
300
Led communist forces to reunite the North and South. Valued rural peasants over factory workers.
Who is Ho Chi Minh
300
The US supported these freedom fighters to occupy Soviet efforts and bog them down in a "Vietnam" like conflict
Who is the Mujahedin
300
The Soviets beat the US in the first to space race when they launched this satellite.
What is sputnik
300
Mikhail Gorbachev called for openness, or an end to censorship.
What is glasnost
300
The Soviet Union and other satellite soviet states signed this agreement to protect each other from Western aggression
What is the Warsaw Pact
400
Chinese communist leader who led China away from a Soviet alliance and influenced Cold War conflicts in Southeast Asia
Who is Mao Zedong
400
A massive aid package to rebuild Europe after WWII by the US.
What is the Marshall Plan
400
Soviets opposed Muslim freedom fighters who received support from the US in this country
What is Afghanistan
400
Gorbachev's restructuring of the government and economy
What is perestroika
400
The easing of strained relations or tension during the 1970's.
What is Detente
500
Korean leader who opposed US presence in South Korea and sought to reunite the peninsula
Who is Kim Il Sung
500
The theory that if one small country falls to communism, others nearby would follow.
What is the Domino Theory
500
The US and Soviet Union battled for control of this urban center for 46 years until the collapse of the Soviet Union.
What is Berlin
500
China's attempt to purge its people of "bourgeois" tendencies
What is the Cultural Revolution
500
The US placed an embargo on this country for their relationship with the Soviet Union
What is Cuba
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