Western Bloc
What did the Truman Doctrine require of the United States?
Containment of Communism
What are the two major proxy wars?
Korean War, Vietnam
What are the 3 most known Soviet leaders?
Stalin, Khrushchev, and Gorbachev
What was the Western Bloc?
Democratic countries, opposite of the Eastern Bloc
What general was fired for insubordination by Truman?
Douglas MacArthur
What year was the Soviet Union formed?
1922
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
What parallel was the Korean War started on?
38th Parallel
What date was the USSR dissolved?
December 26th, 1991
What is the military alliance between the Western Bloc members?
NATO
What was the date of the Sputnik launch?
October 4th, 1957
What Communist revolutionary had a city in Vietnam named after him?
Ho Chi Minh
What was the final leader of the USSR?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What year did Khrushchev take power?
1953
"It will be done during the term of office of some of the people who sit here on this platform. But it will be done. And it will be done before the end of this decade." Who said this and what were they referring to?
JFK, making it to the moon
Who were the Big 3 at Yalta?
FDR, Churchill, Stalin
How many years did the Vietnam war last?
20