COLD WAR BEGINS
What is the Cold War?
Period of political tension after WWII, ending with the fall of communism in the U.S.S.R.
What were the shelters called that people hid in?
Fall Out Shelters
Who forms the Communist Party in 1921?
Mao Zedong
Head of a communist totalitarian regime in North Korea (1994 – 2011) Hint- Considered a “Stalinist”
Kim Jong Il
Communist leader of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What is the United Nations?
International organization created to maintain peace around the world
Who were the 2 candidates that were debating during this time?
Communists’ 6,000 mile retreat to safety in the north
Long March
Who is the current militarist dictator of North Korea and has threatened the U.S. with nuclear attacks
Kim Jong Un
Democratic “puppet” leader of South Vietnam?
Ngo Dinh Diem
Countries whose military power is combined with political influence (U.S. and U.S.S.R.)
Who led the Cuban Revolution?
Fidel Castro led a Communist uprising in 1959 in Cuba
What was the One Child Policy?
1980’s government plan limiting urban families to a single child.
What happened after Kim Jong Il’s father (Kim Il Sung) died?
Violated civil liberties of his own people
New nuclear power
Claimed that North Korea has nuclear weapons when they didnt but obviously they actually do now
South Vietnamese guerilla fighters loyal to the North
Viet Cong
Iron Curtain
The ideological boundary between East and West Europe
What was the situation that brought us closer to World War 3?
Who is Sun Yat-sen
He was the first great leader of the Nationalist Party
Popular sport in North Korea?
Basketball
Chemical defoliate (kills plant life)
Agent Orange
What was the Truman Doctrine?
The Truman Doctrine was U.S. gives money and aid to countries threatened by Communist expansion
Cuba dismantles missile launch pads and Kennedy agrees not to invade Cuba
What is Kuomintang?
Nationalist Party of China – wants to modernize.
1st president to step inside North Korea ahead of meeting with Kim Jong Un?
Trump
Tet is the Vietnamese New Year. Organized attack by North and Viet Cong against major cities in the south. Huge hit to US forces even though they held back the attack
Tet Offensive