The USSR
What are the names of the two major alliances of the Cold War? (one the capitalist western bloc, the other the communist eastern bloc)
The US claimed to have won the space race with THIS major accomplishment...
The moon landing in 1969
Who was the leader and founder of the Chinese Communist Party responsible for the Cultural Revolution?
Mao Zedong
During the Vietnam was many young men resisted being conscripted into the army and they were called...
Draft Dodgers
What was the name of the communist leader in Cuba?
Fidel Castro
THIS was created by Stalin in order to contained the Capitalist portion of Germany's capital city.
The Berlin Wall
The US believed in THIS policy, that if one nation fell to communism then its neighbors would fall as well
Domino Theory
What was the name of Communist China's economic plan to rapidly industrialize and collectivize farming?
The Great Leap Forward
The name of the physical division created between North and South Korea after the Korean War
The DMZ - The Demilitarized Zone
What two major terrorist organizations emerged out of Afghanistan after the Soviet-Afghan war?
Al-Qaeda and the Taliban
What is the understanding between the United States and USSR that once a nuclear weapon was fired, total nuclear war and total annihilation was inevitable.
Mutually Assured Destruction
What theory is this.... "Limiting communism to areas already under Soviet control. The United States pledged to resist Soviet expansion anywhere in the world."
Containment Theory
What was the name of the 1989 Beijing students political protest, calling for democratic reform?
Tiananmen Square
What style of warfare was primarily used during the Vietnam war?
Guerilla Warfare
What was the name of the US's failed attempt to invade Cuba and overthrow the communist regime?
Bay of Pigs
This was Gorbachev's plan for Social Openness
Glasnost
In 1948 Stalin blockaded Western Berlin in an attempt to force democratic occupying nations out of the region. How did the US respond to this crisis?
The Berlin Airlifts
Who was the leader of the Nationalist party responsible for overthrowing the Qing Dynasty and ending the dynastic cycle in China permanently?
Sun Yat-Sen
What other nation (aside from the USSR) supported the north Koreans and the North Vietnamese?
China
What was the name of the Islamic extremists group the US secretly funded to resist Soviet expansion in Afghanistan?
The Mujahedeen
This was Gorbachev's plan for economic openness
Perestroika
What was the name of the US's economic plan that helped rebuild Europe after WW2 and stop communist influence?
The Marshall Plan
After the Communist party was nearly defeated by the Nationalists in the Civil War, what was the name of their journey they took to save themselves?
The Long March
What was the name of the Dictator installed in North Korea after the Korean War?
Kim Il Sung
Who was leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Nikita Kruschev