War Around the World
Historical Leaders
Vocab
Random Things to Know
Picture This
100
The 38th Parallel divided the North and South of this Asian country.
Korea
100
The President responsible for resolving the Cuban Missile Crisis.
JFK
100
The US policy of ______________ sought to stop the spread of Communism around the world.
Containment
100
The Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine sought to limit the appeal of Communism after WWII by sending what over to Europe?
$$$ to rebuild
100
What event is pictured here?
Cuban Missile Crisis
200
Just 90 miles off the coast of Florida, the world came close to nuclear destruction when missiles were placed here in 1962 by the Soviets.
Cuba
200
Harsh, oppressive leader of the USSR from the late 1920s to 1950s.
Joseph Stalin
200
The physical tearing down of this signaled the end of the Cold War in 1989.
The Berlin Wall
200
The United States came to the aid of this group of rebel farmer soldiers in Afghanistan when the Soviets invaded.
Mujahideen
200
This cartoon suggests what was necessary to bring the Cold War to an end?
Cooperation
300
Ho Chi Minh was a revolutionary leader turned Communist who tried to take over and unify this country into a communist state. The southern part of the country (and the USA) were not a fan.
Vietnam
300
This rebel leader ruled over Cuba and allied himself with the Communists of the Soviet Union.
Fidel Castro
300
The name given to the literal and metaphoric divide between Eastern and Western Europe that separated Communism and Democracies. Also a great name for a heavy metal band.
The Iron Curtain
300
This leader of the Mujahideen was actually funded, armed, and trained by the US in the 1980s to fight against the Soviets, a move which would come back to haunt the US just a decade and a half later in 2001.
Osama Bin Laden
300
The Cold War led to this amongst the countries involved, meaning they were trying to out gun each other for the biggest and baddest weapons.
Arms Race
400
The Soviet invasion of this Middle East country in 1979 started a decade long war that eventually grew to be too costly for the USSR and cost them their empire.
Afghanistan
400
The leader who took Stalin's place as the leader of the USSR and faced off against the US in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Nikita Krushchev 
400
Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms of perestroika and glasnost resulted in
A. conditions that lead to the breakup of the Soviet Union
B. an era of world peace and Soviet prosperity
C. censorship of the news media in Russia
D. a successful transition to a command economy in Russia
A
400
The name of the military alliance that the Soviet Union led.
Warsaw Pact
400
DAILY DOUBLE
RISK UP TO THE POINTS YOU HAVE
500
This capital city of Germany was deep within Soviet territory but itself was divided under both Allied and Soviet control.
Berlin
500
This Soviet leader's reforms brought about the end of the Cold War and the breaking up of the Soviet Union.
Mikhail Gorbachev
500
MAD stood for this, meaning no side launched nukes at one another during the Cold War because they knew it meant they would get nuked right back.
Mutually Assured Destruction
500
Which US President helped bring about to the 40+ year war known as the Cold War?
Ronald Reagan 
500
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