Leaders
This Soviet leader took power after the death of Lenin and instituted a reign of terror which included the purges of millions who opposed or concerned him
Joseph Stalin
This latitude line forms the basis, both before and after the war, for the division of the two Korean states
The 38th Parallel
This policy was America's broad strategy for combatting the spread of communism; it was demonstrated through the proxy wars of the Cold War
This concrete barrier divided the eastern and western portions of the split German capital
Berlin Wall
This general felt it necessary to use atomic weaponry against China and North Korea during the Korean War; he was eventually dismissed by president Truman for his brash ways
General Douglas MacArthur
This leader planned the Great Leap Forward, which wound up causing the largest famine in history
Mao Zedong
This North Vietnamese leader spent time in America and eventually came to believe that communism was Vietnam's best path forward; he eventually had a city named in his honor following the final North Vietnamese victory over the South
Ho Chi Minh
The American plan to get out of the Vietnam War by actually increasing its military presence to create a strong position for negotiating peace between the two Vietnamese factions
Vietnamization
This event was the result of the USSR placing nuclear missiles in the newly-communist Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
This type of warfare is typically practiced by smaller armies with less material advantage; the idea is to use the landscape and any means available to demoralize a larger, better equipped enemy
guerilla warfare
This American president began the process of "Vietnamization", though he is more famous for his criminal activity later on
Richard Nixon
The 1979 Soviet invasion of this country led to a rebuilding of tension in the relationship between the Cold War's two superpowers, as the United States supported insurgent groups fighting the Soviet occupation force
Afghanistan
This Soviet policy from late in the Cold War amounted to a greater openness from the government and for the Soviet people
Glasnost
The break up of the Soviet Union occurred primarily for two reasons:
1) an increasingly inefficient, stagnant economy
2) an increase in ____________ among the Soviet republics
nationalism
This agreement reached between the North Vietnamese and the Americans negotiated an American exit from the Vietnam War; nominally guaranteed the protection of South Vietnam, but the South was nonetheless conquered 2 years later to finally end the war
Paris Peace Agreement
This revolutionary leader took control of Cuba after the successful communist revolution which took place there in the 1950s
Fidel Castro
This Soviet-backed North Vietnamese faction is famed for its resistance to overwhelming American force through ambush, sabotage, and unconventional warfare
This Soviet policy from later in the Cold War amounted to greater market freedom within the Soviet economy
Perestroika
This protest at an Ohio university resulted in the deaths of 4 student protestors, and further soured the American public on the unpopular Vietnam War
Kent State Shootings/Massacre
This resolution passed by Congress in 1964 allowed president Lyndon B. Johnson to escalate American military involvement in Vietnam
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This Soviet leader, memorable for the birthmark on his forehead, instituted the policies of Glasnost and Perestroika to mend the failing Soviet economy
Mikhail Gorbachev
This strategic attack by North Vietnamese forces surprised the Americans due to its occurrence during the biggest cultural holiday of Vietnam
The Tet Offensive
These agreements reduced the threat of nuclear war between the US and the USSR
SALT I & II
This the term used to describe the lowering of tensions between the two superpowers towards the end of the Cold War
Détente
This chemical was intended to clear out Vietnamese forests to make fighting the North Vietnamese easier for the Americans; it has since been shown to be responsible for genetic issues
Agent Orange