President Harry Truman
An imaginary line through central Europe that separated Capitalist countries from Communist countries.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The portion of Korea that was supported by the Communist Soviet Union.
The president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
Vietnam was controlled by what country before WW2?
What is France?
Nixon was the first president to visit these two countries.
What are Communist China and Communist Soviet Union?
Truman's idea to stop the spread of Communism.
What is Policy of Containment?
What is the 38th parallel?
The U.S. trained Cuban exiles (runaways) in this city to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is Miami?
The Communist Leader of North Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
What is SALT (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)?
The U.S. gave $400 million to Greece and Turkey to rebuild their countries and not turn Communist.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The years of the Korean War.
What are 1950-1953?
The U.S. set up a ________ to not allow Soviet supplies and warheads into Cuba.
What is a Blockade or Quarantine?
The belief that if one country falls to Communism, then all countries in that area will follow.
What is Domino Theory?
Ronald Reagan’s plan to set up a defense system in space.
What is Star Wars?
The U.S. flew 5,000 tons of supplies over West Berlin and fed 2 million West Berliners.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
The term given to when the fighting stops and there is no clear victor.
What is a Cease-Fire Stalemate?
The USSR agreed to remove nuclear weapons in Cuba in exchange for the U.S. agreement to remove our nuclear weapons out of this country.
What is Turkey?
The U.S. could not defeat this kind of warfare in South Vietnam.
What is Guerilla warfare?
Who were the first men on the moon?
The two competing alliances during The Cold War.
What are the Warsaw Pact and NATO?
The number of Americans that died in action in Korea. (come within 10,000).
What is almost 40,000?
The leader of Communist Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Vietnam was divided at this line (latitude line).
What is the 17th Parallel?
The year that The Berlin Wall came down.
What is 1989?