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Cuban Missile Crisis
100
North Atlantic Trade Organization
What is NATO
100
Dictator of North Korea who allied with communist Soviet Union
Who is Kim IL Sung
100
The Cold War began
What happened in March, 1946
100
"Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred thoughts contend."
What was Mao Zedong's campaign slogan
100
President Kennedy imposed it to prevent further Soviet shipments of nuclear missiles to Cuba
What was the naval blockade
200
International organization established after WWII with the goal of maintaining peace and cooperation in the International community
What is the United Nations
200
United States president who established a policy in 1947 to contain the spread of communism
Who is Harry S. Truman
200
The United States and Soviet Union joined 48 other countries to form the United Nations
What happened in 1945
200
"I don't think that unless a greater effort is made by the Government to win popularity support that the war can be won out there... We can help them. we can give then equipment, we can send our men out there as advisors, but they have to win it, the people of Viet-nam, against the Communists."
What did John F. Kennedy say in a television interview
200
The United States imposed a naval blockade on Cuba
What happened in October 1962
300
Mutual defense alliance between the Soviet Union and satellites in Eastern Europe set up in 1955
What is the Warsaw Pact
300
President of North Vietnam from 1954-69
Who is Ho Chi Minh
300
Harry S. Truman pressured Stalin to allow countries their right to free elections
What hapened after F.D.R.'s death in 1945
300
"We have closed our ranks and defeated both domestic and foreign oppressors through the People's War of Liberation and the great people's revolution, and now we are proclaiming the founding of the People's Republic of China."
What did Mao Zedong say at a Chinese rally
300
A tense confrontation that lasted for one week between the Soviet Union and United States
What brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
400
A communist led army in South Vietnam that fought its government with support of North Vietnam
What is the Viet Cong
400
Non-communist leader of South Korea
Who is Syngman Rhee
400
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill made the phrase "Iron Curtain" famous
What speech was given in 1946
400
"Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos. its purpose should be the revival of a working economy on the world so as to permit the emergence of... conditions in which free institutions can exist."
What was U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall's speech about the Marshall Plan
400
On October 28, he agreed to remove the Soviet missiles
Who is the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev
500
A political movement of Cambodian communist guerillas who gained power in 1975
What is the Khmer Rouge
500
The first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee
Who is Joseph Stalin
500
Soviet-American relations continued to worsen
What happened in 1946 and 1947
500
"An iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities... lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and are all subject... to very high... measure of control from Moscow."
What was Winston Churchill's opinion about the "Iron Curtain"
500
Guantanamo Bay
Where was the U.S. naval blockade
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