Cold War 1
How did the Korean War end?
What is the peninsula remained split at the 38th parallel? Ceasefire.
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
The country that was trying to stop the spread of communism.
What is the U.S.?
The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
Who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
A term describing the political boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
A war fought between groups of smaller countries that each represent the interests of other larger powers, and may have help and support from these larger powers is called?
A proxy war.
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
Who was the United States president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
Theory that if one nation falls, its neighbors will fall.
What is Domino Theory?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Who was the first man in space? What country was he from?
Yuri Gagarin. Soviet Union.
This European country occupied Vietnam for decades and tried to regain control of this country after WWII.
What is France?
U.S. pilots carried thousands of tons of supplies to the people of West Berlin for 10 months.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
How did the Vietnam War end?
What is North Vietnam won the war, and the Peninsula was united under communism?
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
What is Germany?
Who was U.S.A's first man in space?
Who was Alan Shepard?
What is Detente and which President led this period during the Cold War?
How did Canada help defend the US during the Cold War?
What is the D.E.W. line/ NORAD agreement/ Founding member of NATO/ Peacekeepers?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
Which 4 countries are still communist today?
China, North Korea, Cuba, Vietnam
He was asked tear down a wall
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the name of the armed communist political revolutionary organization in South Vietnam that participated in guerrilla warfare?
What is the Viet Cong?