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Cold War Confrontations
The Cuban Missile Crisis
United Nations
The Global Cold War
Cold War in the 1970s and 80s
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This European country was divided between East and West at the end of World War II. The Soviets controlled the East and the U.S. controlled the West.
What is Germany?
100
This was the U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He ordered a quarantine of Cuba using U.S. ships.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
This organization was the predecessor to the United Nations. It was discredited completely after World War II.
What is the League of Nations?
100
President Nixon had the CIA cooperate with the military coup in this country in 1973 that resulted in General Pinochet taking control.
What is Chile?
100
President Nixon visited this country in 1972 in order to drive a wedge between it and the Soviet Union.
What is China?
200
The U.S. policy of attempting to contain the spread of communism was clearly articulated by this U.S. president who aided Greece and Turkey.
Who is President Truman?
200
This was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis who brought the world close to nuclear war.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
This U.S. President had advocated for the formation of an international organization after World War I. The Senate ultimately rejected U.S. participation in the organization.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
200
The CIA launched a coup in this country to remove the democratically-elected Prime Minister after he supported the nationalization of the country's oil supply and the removal of a British oil company.
What is Iran?
200
This term means "an easing of tensions." It refers to the slightly better terms that the U.S. and Soviets were on during the 1970s.
What is detente?
300
The Soviet Union invaded this Middle Eastern country in 1979 in an attempt to spread communism there. In response, President Carter boycotted the 1980 Olympics that were being held in Moscow.
What is Afghanistan?
300
This is the number of miles Cuba is from Florida.
What is 90 miles?
300
This event led Americans to reassess its isolationism after World War I. Americans began to reconsider joining an international organization after this event.
What is Pearl Harbor?
300
The CIA launched a coup in this country when the socialist president nationalized land that was held by the United Fruit Company.
What is Guatemala?
300
This Soviet leader during the 1960s and 70s invaded Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring in 1968. He later articulated a doctrine that forbade Soviet satellite states from challenging communism.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
400
This was the leader of North Vietnam who attempted to unify all of Vietnam under communism after World War II.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
400
This was the Cuban leader who had just completed a communist revolution in Cuba before the missile crisis occurred.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
These are the five permanent members of the Security Council.
What is China, Russia, Britain, France, and the United States?
400
These countries were an interesting Cold War case study because the U.S. and Soviet Union actually switched who they were supporting mid-way through the proxy war.
What is Ethiopia and Somalia?
400
This acronym refers to the treaties signed by the U.S. and Soviet Union in the 1970s to reduce their nuclear weapons stockpiles.
What is SALT--Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?
500
The Korean War ended in a stalemate when the North and South agreed to a ceasefire and settled on this line as a boundary between the two nations.
What is the demilitarized zone (DMZ) or 38th parallel?
500
The Soviets agreed to halt the shipment of missile materials to Cuba if the U.S. promised to do these two things.
What is not invade Cuba and remove missiles from Turkey?
500
This is a common criticism of the veto power of the five permanent members of the Security Council.
What is...it's unfair that these five members have so much power, these five countries have frequently used the veto power to block the actions of other countries, the U.S. has used its veto power to defend Israel many times, the Russians have used the veto power defend Syrian President Assad, the veto power makes the Security Council very inefficient?
500
The name of the Guatemalan president who was overthrown by the CIA in 1954.
Who is Jacobo Arbenz?
500
These two reforms undertaken by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s led to more freedom of speech and economic restructuring in the eastern bloc countries and the Soviet Union. The end of communism there soon followed.
What is Glasnost and Perestroika?