The division used to create North and South Korea after World War II?
What is the 38th parallel?
100
The bomb that was developed by 1953 by both the USA and USSR.
What is the Hydrogen bomb?
100
A failed invasion of Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
100
The first leader of communist China.
Who is Mao Zedong?
100
The country that still has a trade embargo placed against it by the USA.
What is Cuba?
200
The nation 100 miles off the American coast that held nuclear missles.
What is Cuba?
200
The military alliance created by the Western democracies to protect themselves from an attack by communist nations.
What is NATO?
200
The North Vietnamese attack on cities across all of South Vietnam during the Vietnamese New Year that marked the turning point in the American opinion of the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
200
The leader of communist North Vietnam during the Vietnam war.
Who is Ho Chih Minh?
200
The nation with which the USA never signed a peace treaty.
What is Korea?
300
The two European nations that immediately benefited the Truman Doctrine
What are Turkey and Greece?
300
An alliance created the communist nations to protect themselves, but also created by the Soviet Union to keep its satellite nations in order.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Program led by Mao that resulted in the death of as many 55 million Chinese.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
300
The successsor to Joseph Stalin.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
300
The country that opened itself to the world in the 1990's, established diplomatic relations with the USA, and is becoming a leading exporter of coffee to the world
What is Vietnam?
400
The body of water where American warships were attacked by North Vietnamese to spark the start of the Vietnam war.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin?
400
President Ronald Reagan's missile defense program designed to prevent a nuclear attack.
What was the "Star Wars" program?
400
Total population killed by the Khmer Rouge during the Cambodian genocide.
What is 1/3 of the population or 1 million people?
400
The leader of the Cambodia communist group, called the Khmer Rouge?
Who is Pol Pot?
400
The area in North and South Korean that does NOT have military forces today.
What is the DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
500
The nation that elected Vaclav Havel as their first president after years of communist rule
What is Czecholsovakia?
500
The term coined to describe when "each side knows that the other side would ALSO be destroyed if it launched its weapons"
What is mutally assured destruction?
500
The phrase used to describe the massive invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact to put an end to freedoms introduced by the nation.
What is the "Prague Spring?"
500
The leader of communist North Korea during the Korean conflict.
Who is Kim Il Sung?
500
Aside from Cuba, North Korea, Vietnam, and China, it is one of the remaing communist nations today that had became communist during the Cold War.