Cuba
Trained as a lawyer, this guerrilla fighter would rule Cuba as a communist dictatorship for nearly 50 years.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The Suez Canal Crisis took place in this year
What is 1956?
This longtime communist led the resistance to French attempts to re-colonize Indochina
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Mao completed his conquest of China in this year
What is 1949?
The US was able to persuade the Security Council to intervene in Korea because this country was boycotting it.
What is the USSR?
The Cuban Revolution took place in this year.
What is 1959?
These three countries colluded to launch a military invasion of the Suez zone after Nasser nationalizes it.
Who are the United Kingdom, France, and Israel?
The defeat of the French army was confirmed after much of its army surrendered in this two-month siege.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
The Sino-Soviet split began when this new Soviet premier denounces Stalin in 1956
Who is Nikolai Khrushchev?
After Japan's defeat in World War II, its former colony of Korea was divided at this parallel.
What is the 38th?
To resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis, Kennedy agreed to secretly remove nuclear missiles from these two countries.
What are Turkey and Italy?
Nasser needed the revenue from the canal to build this giant electricity-producing project.
What is the Aswan Dam?
The Indochina War was resolved with a set of Accords signed in this Swiss City in 1954.
What is Geneva?
Chinese foreign minister Chou En-Lai gave the keynote address at the first non-aligned meeting in this Indonesian city.
What is Bandung?
What is three?
A failed US-sponsored invasion in this coastal area persuaded Castro to seek nuclear arms from the USSR.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Suez Crisis took place in the midst of an uprising in this Eastern European country
What is Hungary?
Unpopular at home, the Indochine War was given this nickname by the left-wing media
What is the 'dirty war' (sale guerre)?
Finally unified under communism, China extended its power territorially in 1950 by taking control of this strategic plateau
What is Tibet?
Civilians in this half of Korea suffered the most in the war
What is the North?
Photos taken from this specially-designed reconnaissance aircraft confirmed the presence of nuclear missiles on Cuba.
What is a U-2 plane?
Which Cold War superpower opposed the 'tripartite' invasion of the Suez zone?
Both of them.
After 1954, the US attempted to prop up a new South Vietnamese government under this Catholic aristocrat
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
China obtained nuclear weapons in this year
What is 1964?
This US Secretary of State defined the US defensive perimeter to exclude Korea in an infamous 1950 speech
Who is Dean Acheson?