Cold War

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100

Which leader secretly began to build missiles in Cuba?

Nikita Khrushchev

200

first U.S. President to go to China     

Richard Nixon

300

. Soviet Leader who reformed the USSR in the 1980s    

Mikhail Gorbachev

400

first communist leader of North Korea     

Kim III Sung 

500

This man led the 1st platoon during the My Lai Massacre 

William Calley

Key Terms

100

border nations between U.S.S.R. & the west. 

satellite nations

200

What was Operation Vittles?

The U.S. & British led “Operation Vittles” flying food & supplies into W. Berlin

Berlin Airlift 

300

“an attack on one... is an attack on all”

Under which treaty and U.S. president was this saying established? 

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

President Harry Truman 

400

social reform that ended religious bans and censorship in the Soviet Union

Glasnost 

500

.reduce U.S. troops by transferring military responsibilities to South Vietnamese 

Vietnamization

k/c/v

100

Mao’s attempt to 

- restart the revolution 

- peasants & workers equal

- intellectuals/artists bad

     - imprisoned/killed

     - schools closed

Cultural Revolution 

200

Name two goals from the Bay of Pigs Operation

Was the U.S. successful? 

overthrow of Castro and the establish a non-communist government 

U.S. Failed 

300

Under which two conditions did the USSR agree to remove their missiles? 

1.  U.S. promise not to invade Cuba 

2. remove missiles from Turkey 

400

Communist guerrillas

Vietcong

500

What three things did North Vietnam do once they took over South Vietnam?

Officials sent thousands of people to “reeducation camps” for training in Communist thought.

 -They nationalized industries and strictly controlled businesses. 

-They renamed Saigon, the South’s former capital, Ho Chi Minh City.

k/c/v

100

policy to transform China from a farming into a modern industrial society in just 5 year

The Great Leap Forward

200

young people who enforced the cultural revolution revolution

Red Guards 

300

Name three countries that have occupied Vietnam before it gained it's independence 

France 

Japan

U.S. 

400

Name 2 problems the U.S. army faced fighting in Vietnam? 

• 1) U.S. soldiers were fighting a guerrilla war in unfamiliar jungle terrain
• 2) the South Vietnamese government  was becoming more unpopular—support for the Vietcong grew, with help and supplies the Soviet Union, China.

500

Which event led the U.S. to get involved in Vietnam?

Which U.S. president told congress that North Vietnamese patrol boats had attacked two U.S. destroyers and then sent more than 180,000 US troops to Vietnam?

The Gulf of Tonkin

President Lyndon Johnson 

Random

100

What term means "going to the edge of war" ?

Brinkmanship 

200

the practice of spying or of using spies, typically by governments to obtain political and military information.

Espionage 

300

Why was general McArthur removed by Truman during the Korean War?

MacArthur called for a nuclear attack against China

( The Chinese moved into South Korea and captured the capital of Seoul.)

400

At what degree latitude was Vietnam divided at the Geneva Conference?

Vietnam was divided at 17° north latitude. North of that line, Ho Chi Minh’s Communist forces governed.

500

Communist rebels known as the Khmer Rouge set up a brutal Communist government under the leadership of who

(Cambodia) 

Pol Pot