Leaders
John F Kennedy
Vietnam and Korea are considered what type of war?
Proxy Wars
Closest point to nuclear war - when soviets sent secret missiles to Cuba
Cuban Missile Crisis
What is the Latitude line/boundary between North and South Korea?
38th Parallel
Communist Leader of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
Leader of Cuba that brought a Communist Revolution
Fidel Castro
The belief that if one nation "fell" to communism the others would follow
Domino Theory
During the Partition of India, what two religious groups made up India?
Hindus and Muslims
Mobutu who was backed by US violently overthrew the soviet backed leader - became a proxy due to the vast amount of reosurces
The Congo
US President during the Korean conflict, developed the terms containment and domino theory
President Eisenhower
Leader of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
The belief that nuclear war would destroy the world so they build up nuclear arms to prevent war
MAD (Deterrence)
Failed US backed invasion of Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro
Bay of Pigs invasion
a proxy war in Southeast Asia where guerrilla fighter used the Ho Chi Minh trail to attack the south. What country/Proxy war is this?
Vietnam
Communist dictator of China - purged the bourgeoisie
Mao Zedong
Military Dictator of Iraq who invaded Iran
Saddam Hussein
US policy of keeping communism from spreading
Containment
Gorbachev's policy of restructuring the USSR with capitalism
Perestroika
When a conflict where major powers, support smaller local countries to fight on their behalf
Proxy War
Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Mikita Khrushchev
Committed a Genocide in Cambodia that killed up to a third of their population
Pol Pot
Period of reduced tensions during the Cold War and reduction of nuclear arms
Détente
despite being a event to unify, it was used during the Cold War to divide (Boycotted, hostage crisis in 1972)
Olympics
Divided by the Cold War tensions of the USSR backing the MPLA and the US backing the other groups - led to decades long civil war and violence
Angola Civil War
Anti-Communist US president - created Star Wars missile defense and had the Iran and Contra scandal
Ronald Reagen