War to War
What was the international organization formed in 1945 called?
United Nations
Who was the Communist leader of China in 1949?
Who was the first man in space and what country was he from?
Yuri Gagarin, USSR
What is the buffer along the 38th Parallel between North and South Korea called? *Double Jeopardy!*
Demilitarized Zone (DMZ)
Perestroika was a policy to improve the government and economy, what does it translate to in English?
Restructuring
What was the US Policy of actively aiding any country threatened by communism?
Truman Doctrine
What island did the Nationalists flee to after losing the Chinese Civil War to the Communists? *Double Jeopardy!*
Taiwan
Who were the three leaders involved in the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F Kennedy, Fidel Castro, Nikita Khrushchev
Who was the North Vietnamese communist leader?
Ho Chi Minh
Who was the last leader of the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the Western Alliance and what was the Eastern Alliance called?
NATO and Warsaw Pact
What was the para-military group of young students that embarked on the Chinese Cultural Revolution called?
The Red Guard
What did SALT in 1972 and 1979 stand for? *Double Jeopardy!*
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
What were the two capital cities of North and South Korea?
Pyongyang
Seoul
What was the Soviet policy of making the government more transparent by reducing corruption and censorship called?
Glasnost
First World and Second World countries were nations under the influence of which superpowers, respectively?
1st World- United States
2nd World- Soviet Union
China got involved in the Korean War once UN forces neared what border line?
Yalu River
What does MAD stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What were the names for the guerilla fighters in Vietnam AND in Afghanistan?
Viet Cong & Mujahideen
Who was the leading figure of the Second Red Scare and what committee did he lead? *Double Jeopardy!*
Joseph McCarthy
House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)
The European Recovery Plan was also called the ______ Plan and gave aid to which countries? *Double Jeopardy!*
Marshall Plan
Turkey and Greece
What was the Five Year Plan collectivizing and forming thousands of farming communes called?
The Great Leap Forward
What was the joint space mission between the US & USSR called?
The Apollo-Soyuz Mission
The US got involved in Vietnam because of the ____ Theory and using the Gulf of ____ incident giving President ______ authority to send troops.
Domino / Tonkin / Lyndon B Johnson (LBJ)
Moldova, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Ukraine.