Communist China
This dictator assumed power of the Communist Party while leading his rebels on a long march from Nationalist Armies. His future policies would lead China to social and economic decline.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This strategic invasion of multiple regions of South Vietnam led Walter Cronkite to conclude the war was unwinnable.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The belief that as Communism spreads to one country, neighboring countries would fall as well.
What is Domino Theory?
This failed invasion led to the Cuban Missile Crisis and thirteen days of potential nuclear war.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
This method of warfare characterized the Western Front of World War I and led to a war off attrition.
What is trench warfare?
This militant leader sought to establish China as a Republic after the fall of the Qing Dynasty.
Who is Chiang Kai-shek?
Traps, Ambushes, and psychological warfare.
What is Guerilla Warfare?
This zone, representing an ongoing war of opposing governments, has in recent years become a popular tourist destination.
What is the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)?
The United States helped form this alliance to challenge the aggressive expansion of the Soviet Union.
What is NATO?
While commonplace today, the absence of these basic accommodations during the Industrial Revolution left little room for workers to rest or recover.
What are labor/workers rights?
A violent period in which multiple Communist Party members were purged and replaced with people not suspected of treason and sabotage of the Great Leap Forward.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
This ambitious Vietnamese politician sought to instill Communism and remove all vestiges of French colonial rule.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This allied nation came to the rescue of North Korean forces and helped lead the war to a stalemate.
What is China?
The Soviet Union responded to western alliances by founding this Communist alliance.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
These individuals embodied the disciplines of their time and demonstrated exceptional skills in art, science, literature, mathematics, and architecture.
What is a Renaissance Man?
A period of swift modernization of China's agricultural and industrial sectors that ultimately failed because of an bloated and inefficient bureaucracy.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The use of this potent herbicide had a host of deadly side effects for American and Vietnamese combatants.
What is Agent Orange?
Fighting in the Korean War effectively began and ended at this location.
What is the 38th parallel?
This policy, introduced by Harry S. Truman, sought to address the threat of Communism and prevent its spread across Europe and Asia.
What is Containment?
The death of this man was akin to sparking a match over a keg of gun powder, and his murder plunged the world into global conflict.
Who is Archduke Franz Ferdinand?
This Chinese cultural center was a target of aggression from the Japanese Imperial Army and served to diminish morale of Chinese soldiers and civilians.
What is Nanjing?
The horrific genocide within this country is largely considered a byproduct of America's aggressive bombing campaigns outside of Vietnam.
What is Cambodia?
The United States continues to be allies with this half of the country, hoping to prevent the spread of Communism.
What is South Korea?
This Soviet leader saw openness and restructuring as the miracle elixir to rescue the Soviet Union from absolute ruin.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
This correspondence between Mexico and Germany inevitably pulled the United States into a European war in 1917.
What is the Zimmerman Note?