Cuba
The name of the leader who led the Cuban communist revolution.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This is the economic system of the United States.
What is capitalism?
Name two of the three leaders that North Korea has had.
Who are Kim Jong Un, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung
This country colonized Vietnam from the late 1800s-1954.
Who is France?
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?
This failed invasion into Cuba in 1961 was an embarrassment to the United States and the CIA
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The United States airlifted food and medical supplies into this city during 1948 due to a Soviet blockade.
What is Berlin?
The line where North and South Korea were split.
The 38th parallel
The deadly herbicide that the United States sprayed on the jungles of Vietnam, leading to decades-long health problems.
What is Agent Orange?
A country where the CIA led a coup due to a fear of communism
What is Guatemala, Iran, Chile, Brazil, etc
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The theory that if one country fell to communism, other countries would also begin to fall.
What is the domino theory?
This country invaded Korea during World War II
Who is Japan?
The type of warfare used by North Vietnamese.
What is guerrilla warfare?
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space program.
What is NASA?
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended with the Soviet Union publicly removing missiles from Cuba and the United States secretly removing missiles from this country.
What is Turkey?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
The years of the official Korean War
1950-1953
The popular leader of communist North Vietnam
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The imaginary border between the Soviet Union and its satellite countries, and the rest of the world.
The name of the US military base/prison that the United States owns in Cuba.
What is Guantanamo Bay?
This US Senator accused people of being communist, leading to a communist "witch hunt" in the US, with many people losing their jobs.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The name of the general that Truman fired during the Korean War because he suggested using nuclear weapons against China
Douglas MacArthur
The surprise attacks that the North Vietnamese planned against South Vietnam cities in 1968 during a national holiday.
What is the Tet Offensive?
The United States' military treaty, whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?