Cold War Leaders
Cold War Agreements
Cold War Europe
Korea/Vietnam
Brinksmanship
100
The Conference of the Big 3 (Stalin, Churchill & FDR) decided the political division of Germany and Europe before WW II ended.
What was the Yalta Conference?
100
Collective security agreement that covered most of Western Europe including the US and Canada.
What was NATO?
100
This effort by the Western Allies was in response to the Soviet Blockade of W. Berlin.
What was the Berlin Blockade?
100
Geopolitical theory that compelled the US to intervene in Asia.
What was the Domino Theory?
100
Dangerous crisis resulted when the Soviets placed IRBMs inside Castro's Cuba.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
His ascension to power following Stalin's death signaled a new direction in the Soviet Union.
Who was Khrushchev?
200
Group of Soviet satellite nations organized into a Cold War military alliance.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
200
Physical barrier to permanently divide East and West Berlin during the Cold War years.
What was the Berlin Wall?
200
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Famous amphibious assault organized by Gen. MacArthur changed the direction of the Korean War.
What was the Inchon Landing?
200
New type of nuclear weapon tested in the Pacific's Bikini Atoll Islands.
What was the hydrogen bomb?
300
American General that first commanded UN forces during the Korean War and later dismissed by President Truman.
Who was Gen. MacArthur?
300
Military alliance in SE Asia that involved the United States, Britain, France, Philippines, Australia and New Zealand.
What was SEATO?
300
Communist nation led by Joseph Tito and later organized the Non-Alignment Movement consisting of many 3rd world nations.
What was Yugoslavia?
300
Famous incident involving alleged attacks on an American destroyer by the N. Vietnamese.
What was the Tonkin Gulf Incident?
300
The Soviets shoot down of the CIA U-2 Spy plane jeopardized this summit between Eisenhower and Krushchev.
What was the Paris Summit?
400
Ho Chi Minh belonged to this small group of Vietnamese guerrillas that fought the Japanese and later the French.
Who were the Vietnminh?
400
Group of nations in Cen. Asia bound together in an alliance with Britain and the USA.
What was CENTO?
400
1968 Prague Spring occurred in this Soviet satellite nation.
What was Czechoslovakia?
400
Nixon's strategy to gradually withdraw American combat troops and turn over the fighting to the S. Vietnamese.
What was Vietnamization?
400
This treaty between the two superpowers limited the atmospheric testing of nuclear weapons.
What was the Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty?
500
President responsible for the development of Detente and ending America's role in the Vietnam War.
Who was President Nixon?
500
This symbol represented Soviet Union's satellite nations organized into economic union to counter the Marshall Plan.
What was COMECON?
500
Hungarian communist leader that called for free elections but the Soviets stopped him.
Who was Imre Nagy?
500
Famous international conference dividing French Indochina into separate nations.
What was the Geneva Conference?
500
The launching of this Soviet satellite into orbit began the Space Race between the superpowers.
What was Sputnik I?