Superpowers Face Off
The two major superpowers in the world after World War II.
What are the U.S. & U.S.S.R.?
This man was the leader of the Communist Faction of the Chinese Civil War.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Korea was controlled by this nation prior to World War II.
What is Japan?
This man was a prominent Vietnamese nationalist who fought for the independence of Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
This "world" was made up of nations that were former colonies and developing nations of Africa, Asia, and South America.
What is the Third World?
The process started by Nikita Khrushchev of moving away from Stalin's policies.
This country was divided into four occupation zones after World War II.
What is Germany?
This island is where the Nationalists fled to after being defeated by the Communists.
What is Taiwan?
This dividing line between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
Communist Rebels in South Vietnam.
What is the Viet Cong?
This was an attempt by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
These nations revolted against Soviet control after Khrushchev came to power.
What are Hungary and Czechoslovakia?
This military alliance was created by the Soviets and their satellite nations in response to the west creating NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This man was the leader of the Nationalist Faction of the Chinese Civil War.
Who is Jiang Jieshi?
The side of Korea backed by the Soviet Union.
What is North Korea?
The brutal Communist Government of Cambodia that killed 2 million of there own people.
What is the Khmer Rouge?
The Muslim leader who overthrew the Shah of Iran in 1979.
Who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
This treaty limited the production of nuclear weapons.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (or SALT)?
This event saw the U.S. and U.K. attempt to supply West Berlin after it was blockaded by the Soviets.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The government of China set up by the Communists after winning the Civil War.
What is the People's Republic of China?
This American General led the U.N. forces in their counterattack against North Korea.
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
The American policy of handing combat operations over to the South Vietnamese military.
What is Vietnamization?
The Islamic rebel groups in Afghanistan funded and supported by the United States.
What are the Mujahedeen and the Taliban?
The fall of this barrier between East and West symbolized the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This American policy sought to stop the spread of Communism around the world.
What is Containment?
These were large collective farms in which Chinese peasants were forced to live and work on.
What are Communes?
The Korean War ended in this way.
What is a stalemate?
The Theory that if one country fell to Communism, all those around it would fall as well.
What is Domino Theory?
The event that nearly brought the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to war in the early 1960s.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The policy aimed at reducing tensions between the Cold War superpowers.
What is Détente?