US vs Soviet Union
The economic system of the Soviet Union.
What is communism?
The location in which the first combat took place during the Cold War?
What is Korea?
The locations of the first and only atomic bombs to be used in world history.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The theory that if one country fell to communism then all of the surrounding countries would also fall.
What is the Domino Theory?
The states created out of the partition of the British Mandate for Palestine.
What are Israel and Palestine?
The economic system of the United States.
What is capitalism?
The countries allied with North Korea during the Korean War.
What are China and the Soviet Union?
The first satellite to orbit the Earth
What is Sputnik?
The US policy that communism must be kept in the countries where it already exists and must not let it spread.
What is containment?
What are India and Pakistan?
The figurative boundary dividing west and east Europe throughout the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The idea that if one country used nuclear weapons, then both countries involved in a nuclear war would be destroyed.
The first advancements of the Atomic or A-Bomb.
What is the hydrogen bomb?
The US policy of giving military and financial aid to countries under the threat of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The name given to Mao Zedong's second 5 year plan for implementing communism.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
The world leader who popularized the term "Iron Curtain" in 1946.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The President of the United States during the Korean War.
Who is Harry Truman?
The weapon capable of launching long distance projectiles.
What are intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)?
The leader of communist China from 1949-1976.
Who is Mao Zedong?
The country led by Pol Pot from 1975-1979
What is Cambodia?
The two military alliances formed early in the Cold War.
What are NATO and the Warsaw Pact?
The term for "secret government/military activity"
What is Covert Operation?
The year in which Sputnik was launched.
What is 1957?
The leader of communist North Korea beginning in 1948.
Who is Kim Il Sung
The political party led by Pol Pot.
What is the Khmer Rouge?