Origins
This global conflict directly preceded the Cold War.
World War Two
Leader of the Chinese Communist Party.
Mao Zedong
This parallel became the pre- and post-war border.
38th Parallel
This parallel became the border at the start of the conflict.
17th Parallel
The Soviet Union officially dissolved in this year.
1991
Rivalry between these two superpowers defined the Cold War.
U.S. and Soviet Union
Country where the Chinese Nationalists fled after their defeat.
Taiwan
This Korean country was the first to invade the other.
North Korea
Communist leader of North Vietnam.
Ho Chi Minh
1989 event symbolizing the fall of communist control in Europe.
Berlin Wall
This 1947 U.S. policy pledged support to countries resisting communism.
Truman Doctrine
The name of Mao's campaign to rapidly industrialize China.
Great Leap Forward
Communist country that bordered Korea and entered the war to support North Korea.
China
At the end of the Vietnam War, the entire country of Vietnam was taken over by this government.
Communist
Soviet policy of political openness.
Glasnost
The conference during World War Two where the icy tension between the United States and the Soviet Union helped create the Cold War.
Yalta Conference
Violent cultural-purification movement launched by Mao in the 1960s.
Cultural Revolution
What does DMZ stand for?
Demilitarized Zone
President Nixon’s plan to withdraw U.S. troops and transfer responsibility to South Vietnam.
Vietnamization
Soviet policy of economic restructuring.
Perestroika
The opposite of NATO, this alliance was created by the Soviets in 1955.
Warsaw Pact
Young radical supporters of Mao during the Cultural Revolution.
Red Guards
The war ended in this kind of military outcome.
Stalemate
U.S. military conflict in Vietnam lasted from the 1960s to this year.
1975
U.S. president who famously said, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
Ronald Reagan