The Cold War
The US
Hinduism and Islam
Name the leader responsible for bringing Communism to China
Mao Zedong
Korea was divided into North and South. Which side was Communist?
North
The Korean War was known as the...
Forgotten War
The US policy of preventing the expansion of Soviet communism by all means short of direct military conflict.
Containment
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
At first, which group of people was Mao extremely popular with?
peasants
Name of the North Vietnamese communist leader who asked Truman for help with Vietnamese independence.
Ho Chi Minh
The name of the event that caused the US to officially enter the Vietnam War.
Golf of Tonkin
After WWII, Winston Churchill referred to an "iron curtain" in Europe. What did it separate?
The democracies of Western Europe (dominated by the US) and the totalitarian countries of Eastern European (dominated by the Soviet Union)
Name 2 of the countries that India was divided into after partition.
India
Pakistan
Name two failures of the Great Leap Forward
famine
pig iron (backyard furnaces)
grain fiasco
pest removal (ex: sparrows)
List three war tactics the Viet Cong used against the US during the Vietnam War.
elaborate tunnels
punji sticks
booby traps
tripwire
guerilla warfare
weapons soaked in feces/urine
landmines
The outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Soviet Union removed missiles from Cuba
US removed missiles from Turkey
Direct line between Moscow and Washington, DC.
Germany was divided into how many parts after World War II?
4
Name one method that Gandhi used to protest the British.
hunger strikes
Salt March
boycott British goods
Why did Mao want the youth to lead the Cultural Revolution?
They weren't privy to the failures of the Great Leap Forward
They represented newness and not the "old culture"
What is the line called that divides North and South Korea?
38th parallel
Which US President and what Soviet Premier came head to head during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Krushev
A military alliance formed by the Soviet Union and several Eastern European communist countries in 1955.
The Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the Indian soldiers in British India who were made to load their rifles with animal fat against their will?
Sepoys
List three characteristics of life in the communes
child care
collective ownership
government-owned everything
no private property
everyone has a specific job
The Korean War ended in a...
Stalemate
President Kennedy handled the Cuban Missile Crisis by..