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This is the country split in half by the "Iron Curtain".
What is Germany?
100
This was the division between N and S. Vietnam.
What is the 17th parallel?
100
This was one of the most visible symbols of the Cold War in Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
100
When it became apparent that Cuba would fall to communist leaning revolutionary _________________, the United States planned the _____________________ invasion that failed.
Who is Fidel Castro? And what is the Bay of Pigs?
100
This is the primary type of economy that was used by the Soviet Union and was unable to meet the demand for consumer goods.
What is command?
200
This was the Political and Military organization that represented the ideal of the West.
What is NATO?
200
In this Cold War conflict the ideas in the Truman doctrine of stopping the spread of communism was accomplished.
What is the Korean War?
200
This acronym was used to describe the imminent reality should the cold war get "hot".
What is MAD
200
As new nations in Africa, The Middle East and SE Asia gained independence they often faced significant economic and political hurdles and were therefore forced to choose between these countries for aid to help them stabalize.
What are the USA and USSR?
200
This outlined the ideas, put forth by the President, that communism should be "contained".
What is The Truman Doctrine
300
This document provided a plan for the financing of the rebuilding of Western Europe.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This is the line that separated N. and S. Korea before and after the Korean war and still today.
What is the 38th Parallel?
300
The fear that one nation falling to communism would lead to another and so on is known as this.
What is the domino theory?
300
While gaining their political independence after WWII the former mandates in the Middle East were economically manipulated by western interests through the use of these.
What are oil concessions?
300
This United Nations body now contains 15 members, five of which are permanent and have veto power over any resolutions.
What is The Security Council?
400
This massive operation, conducted largely by western military personnel and equipment, was successful in circumventing an all out blockade of the divided German capital.
What is The Berlin Airlift?
400
He was the leader of the nationalist forces who defeated the French after WWII and the Americans in the 1960's and 1970's.
Who is Ho Chi Min?
400
These were the defensive missiles stationed around the major cities in the USA during the cold war.
What are Nike?
400
This was a meeting of newly independent former colonies who wished to avoid choosing allies between the USA and the USSR. It was held in SE Asia
What is The Bandung Conference?
400
This is the term used for the nations who did not want to take sides in the Cold War after their independence
What is nonaligned? (Third world acceptable)
500
This treaty among communist block countries was a response to the unified military coalition in the west.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
500
These religious "freedom fighters" hated communism and gained funding from the US government to fight the USSR. Many of them would later become adversaries of the USA.
Who are the Mujahideen?
500
These two countries that were former British colonial subjects, one of which led the non-alignment movement, and are hostile toward each other, particularly over the territory of Kashmir, have successfully tested Nuclear weapons.
What are India and Pakistan?
500
This was the name of the policy of racial segregation that was adopted in the most southern of former British African colonies.
What is apartheid?
500
This marked the beginning of the "Space Race".
What is the soviets launch of Sputnik?