Geography
Postwar Tension
Conflicts - Asia
Conflicts - Latin America
Superpower Politics
100
Label #1 is which country?
What is Korea?
100
The alliance in western Europe that opposed the communist nations.
What is NATO?
100
Which other communist nation fought against the American and UN forces in the Korean War?
What is China?
100
Fidel Castro's revolution in this old American territory turned it into a communist ally to the Society Union.
What is Cuba?
100
The two superpowers fighting during the Cold War.
What are the United States and Soviet Union?
200
Label #2 is which country?
What is Guatemala?
200
The alliance in eastern Europe that opposed the western allies.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
The invasion of South Korea by this country started the Korean War.
What is North Korea?
200
Benito Arbenz was pushed from power in this Latin American country because of his "communist" policies of land redistribution.
What is Guatemala?
200
The United States' policy of preventing the spread of communism around the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine/Containment?
300
Label #2 is which country?
What is Vietnam?
300
Effectively replaced the League of Nations and saw action during the Korean War.
What was the United Nations (U.N.)?
300
The event responsible for bringing the U.S. into the Vietnam War.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
300
The CIA's disastrous attempt to recruit a rebel army to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What was the Bay of Pigs invasion?
300
Double Points: A system of government that allowed for a capitalist economy and frequent elections through its' people.
Example: The United States
What is democracy?
400
Label #3 is which country?
What is Cuba?
400
Allied planes bringing in supplies to the Soviet cut-off city of Berlin.
What was the Berlin Airlift?
400
American protests throughout this Asian conflict made it so unpopular President Johnson lost re-election and the U.S. was forced to evacuate.
What was the Vietnam War?
400
Name a Latin American country besides Cuba or Guatemala that the United States destabilized during the Cold War.
Examples: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Chile, Bolivia
400
A system of government in which the power flows through one individual or party and which individual rights and property are limited.
Example: The Soviet Union
What is communism?
500
Label #6
What is the Soviet Union?
500
The plan to help stabilize and provide aid to postwar Europe.
What was the Marshall Plan?
500
Vietnam and Korea are known as this type of conflict.
What is a proxy war?
500
The closest the United States came to nuclear war with the Soviet Union over warheads accepted by Fidel Castro.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
500
This action was favored by the U.S. intelligence agencies in toppling Latin American opposition government. Meaning; a sudden seizure of the government.
What is a coup d'etat?