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The Communist leader of North Vietnam was
Ho Chi Minh
The US and Great Britain supplied this city by air after the Soviets cut the land ties to it.
Berlin
The first leader of communist China was
Mao Zedong
The first Soviet satellite launched into space was called
Sputnik
More that 50 Americans were held hostage by this country for more than a year beginning in 1979.
Iran
Pro communist South Vietnamese guerillas were called
The Viet Cong
Most US soldiers were stationed in this European country during the Cold War
West Germany
The PRC stands for
The Peoples Republic of China
Who initiated the construction of the space program known as SDI?
Ronald Reagan
Prior to US involvement, Vietnam first had to fight to gain independence from this nation.
France
What did President Truman and Douglas MacArthur differ about during the Korean War?
Using nuclear weapons
Name one newer NATO member who was once a part of the Soviet Union
Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania
Student Militia groups given power to guard the communist revolution in China were called
The Red Guards
Who were the US and Soviet leaders during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK and Nikita Kruschev
The socialist president of Nicaragua who was backed by CUba was
Daniel Ortega
Nixon's plan of turning the fighting in the Vietnam War over to the South Vietnamese was called
Vietnamization
Name two former members of the Warsaw Pact who are now members of NATO
Poland, Hungary, Czechia, Romania, Bulgaria, Slovakia
Mao's plan at Rapid Industrialization was called
The Great Leap Forward
The Truman Doctrine was all about
Containment of communism
The leader of Iran who turned his country into an Islamic Republic was
Ayatollah Khomenei
The first hot conflict of the Cold War was in
Korea
Who are the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Counncil?
US., Great Britain, France, China, Russia
What happened to Chiang Kai Shek and the Kuomintang nationalists?
They fled to Taiwan
This incident, named after the US spy plane shot down over the USSR, increased tension in the Cold War
U2
Who were the communist rulers of Cambodia who massacred nearly half of their population?
Khmer Rouge