Cold War (general)
When did the Cold War start?
What is by the end of World War II
Which part of Korea was Communist?
What is the North
What was the name of the Cuban dictator overthrown by the Cuban Revolution?
What is Fulgencio Batista
What European country had had control on Vietnam for over a century by the time of the conflict?
France
What were the 3 institutions through which the Soviets exercised their control over most of Eastern Europe?
What are Red Army, COMECON and COMINFORM.
What was the name of the policy the Americans adopted to stop the spread of Communism?
What is Containment
What parallel marked the division between North and South Korea?
What is parallel 38
What was the name of the - unsuccessful - invasion carried out by Cuban exiles supplied and equipped by the USA?
The Bay of Pigs
What was the name of the leader of the Viet Cong?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the name of the man who succeeded Joseph Stalin?
What is Nikita Khruschev
What was the "flashpoint" of the Cold War?
What is Berlin
What is 1950-1953
What were the names of the Soviet leader and American president that headed the ngeotiations?
What is Nikita Kruschev and John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the theory on which the Americans based their intervention in Vietnam?
Who was the USSR´s "main" enemy in Eastern Europe?
Who is Marshall Tito, leader of Yugoslavia.
What name did Winston Churchill give to the border between Soviet-controlled countries and the West?
What is "iron curtain"
What were the main methods of "containment"?
When (what month) did this crisis take place?
What is October
What was the name of the attack the Viet Cong carried out during the New Year holiday and the destroy mission American troops conducted in the My Lai area?
The Tet Offensive and the My Lai Massacre
When did Stalin die?
When is March 5th, 1953.
What where the names of the international organizations formed in 1949 and 1955 respectively?
What is NATO and Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the policiy by which the superpowers did not attack each other because both of them had nuclear weapons?
What is MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
What was the main measure that Kennedy decided to take During the October crisis?
What is a blockade
How did the Vietnam War affect the policy
of containment?
Military, Strategy and PROPAGANDA
What is the name given to the series of reforms that Khruschev applied?
What is De-Stalinisation