Cold War Basics
This term describes the decades-long rivalry between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
This theory claimed that if one nation fell to communism, nearby nations would follow.
What is domino theory?
After three years of fighting, the Korean War ended near this dividing line.
What is the 38th Parallel or DMZ (demilitarized zone)?
He led the Quit India Movement during World War II.
This system of racial segregation was created in South Africa in 1948.
What is apartheid?
This policy aimed to stop the spread of communism around the world.
What is containment?
This Cold War competition involved the U.S. and USSR building up massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
What is the arms race?
This failed 1961 CIA-backed invasion tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
He became leader of the Communist government in China after winning the civil war in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
What is Tiananmen Square?
This Cold War competition pushed the U.S. and USSR to achieve firsts in satellites, astronauts, and moon landings.
What is the the Space Race?
The U.S. increased involvement in Vietnam because leaders feared this would happen to all of Asia.
What is the spread of communism?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This disastrous Chinese program aimed to rapidly industrialize but caused millions to starve.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
What is the Berlin Wall?
This Cold War principle meant both superpowers could destroy each other completely.
What is mutually assured destruction (MAD)?
The U.S. extended containment into this Asian country after the North invaded the South in 1950.
What is Korea?
In 1975, this happened when the northern army won the war after U.S. stopped helping the South.
What is the fall of South Vietnam?
In 1947, the British partitioned this land into these two nations.
What are India and Pakistan?
In 1947, the United Nations voted to divide Palestine into these two types of states.
What are a Jewish state and an Arab state?
Name the two treaties that attempted to limit nuclear weapons during the Cold War.
What are the 1963 Nuclear Test Ban Treaty and the 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
Name one Cold War strategy used by both the U.S. and USSR that did not involve direct fighting.
What is proxy wars, espionage, foreign aid, propaganda, or alliances?
The U.S. ultimately withdrew from Vietnam for this reason.
What is heavy casualties and protests at home?
Beginning in 1966, this campaign used violent social change to eliminate traditional ideas, leading to widespread chaos in China.
What is the Cultural Revolution?
As Soviet support for Eastern European governments crumbled in the late 1980s- allowing protests, border openings, and democratic reforms- this larger geopolitical collapse became inevitable.
What is the fall of the Soviet Union?