The Soviet Union
What kind of government was the Soviet Union
Communist
Who was the first leader of the People’s Republic of China (Communist)?
Mao Zedong
In both the Korean and Vietnam war which side did the U.S. fight for, North or South?
South
The United States policy of “containment” was aimed at containing the spread of?
Communism
The metaphorical divide between Western European democratic countries and Eastern European communist countries
The iron curtain
Explain what Destalinization was?
Undoing the political and cultural impact of Joseph Stalin's rule and his cult of personality in the Soviet Union
What was the name of the student militia units in China that went around the country enforcing communism?
The Red Guard
Which war occurred first? The Korean war or the Vietnam war
The Korean war
The U.S. was a founding member of this Alliance created in 1949 to deter Soviet Aggression
N.A.T.O.
+100 points if you know what is stands for
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
A military build up between two countries is known as
Arms Race
What was the name of the alliance that European Communist nations used as a response to NATO?
The Warsaw Pact
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
What was Mao Zedong’s plan which failed due to poor planning, inefficient industry, and crop failures.
The Great Leap Forward
The theory that the fall of one nation to communism would lead to the rapid collapse of neighboring countries to communism
Domino Theory
U.S. program of assisting Western European countries rebuild after WWII
The Marshall Plan
Policy of willingness to go to the edge of war
Brinkmanship
In 1979 the Soviet Union invaded this country to prevent an anti communist revolution. Known as Russia's "Vietnam"
Afghanistan
The Red Guards led a major uprising to establish a “culture” of peasants, this uprising is known as the?
The Cultural Revolution
North and South Korea were divided by this line known as what?
38th parallel
1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the presence of Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the name of the policy of lessening the tensions during the Cold War?
Détente
What was the name of the first Soviet Satellite?
Sputnik
What were 2 of the 4 "pests" Mao Zedong wanted to get rid of to improve China?
-Mosquitos
-Flies
-Sparrows/Birds
-Rats
Vietnamese nationalist and later Communist leader
Ho Chi Minh
This president gave a speech in front of the Berlin wall in which he demanded "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan
Led the Khmer Rogue in Cambodia
Pol Pot