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Cold War Vocab
Cold War Vocab
100

This held many of the quotes and theories by Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung and was required by Chinese citizens to be carried.

What is the "Little Red Book"?

100

What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba

Fidel Castro

100

Where North and South Korea agreed to split.

What is the 38th parallel?

100

This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

100

Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.

What is the Vietnam War?

200

Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.

What is Communism?

200

The symbolic division between western and eastern Europe during the period of the Cold War.

What is the Iron Curtain?

200

Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200

Leader of the Soviet Union During Detente

Nikita Khrushchev

200

Failed takeover of the Communist Cuban goverments enacted by the U.S. Government.

Bay of Pigs Invasion

200

This Russian term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.

What is glasnost?

300

Popular leader of North Vietnam and also the name of the trail that stretched through out Indochina.

Who is Ho Chi Mihn?

300

Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.

What is NATO?

300

US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.

What is the Marshall plan?

300

Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.

What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?

300

Define Detente

Reduction of tensions between the U.S and Soviet Union in the 1970s known as a period of "Relaxation"

300

What was the Marshall Plan?

U.S. containment policy giving huge amounts of money and military aid to help re-build non communist nations in Europe

400

The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.

What is the Arms Race?

400

Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.

Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?

400

US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.

What is NASA?

400

First successful satellite in space.

What is Sputnik I?

400

Name two events the contributed to Nixon's success during Detente

Nixon's State Visit to the Soviet Union and Communist China.

400

What was Perestroika?

Gorbachev's policy of economic restructuring in the Soviet Union.