What is the foreign policy of keeping communism in one area or country, and not letting it spread?
100
These two people met at Yalta to figure out the division of Europe after World War II.
Who are Stalin and Roosevelt?
100
38th parallel.
What is the dividing line between North and South Korea?
100
17th parallel.
What is the dividing line between North and South Vietnam?
100
This was the first satellite in space and it started the space race.
What is Sputnik?
200
brinkmanship
What is going right up to the edge of war to protect your interests?
200
Douglas MacArthur.
Who is commander of the United Nations forces during the Korean War?
200
The humanitarian and economic aid offered to Europe after World War II.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
Khmer Rouge.
Who were the communists who took control of Cambodia?
200
This person started the USSR on the path to democratization, with some success.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
This organization was established after World War II to settle disputes.
What is the United Nations?
300
Fidel Castro.
Who was the leader of the successfulcommunist uprising in Cuba in 1959?
300
This was what the United States tried first to end the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is a blockade?
300
The policies that Gorbachev used to initiate change in the USSR during the 1980's.
What are glasnost and perestroika?
300
The US and the USSR competed in these ways during the Cold War, instead of going to war.
What is through the arms race, the space race, and for allies?
400
Iron Curtain.
What is the metaphor used by Winston Churchill to describe where/how the people in Eastern Europe lived?
400
Ngo Diem Dinh.
Who was the anti-communist dictator of South Vietnam?
400
This was the final deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is the US agreed to remove missiles from Turkey after six months if the USSR removed missiles from Cuba?
400
Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Poland and others were part of this security and defense organization.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
400
This person succeeded Nikita Krushchev.
Who is Leonid Brezhnev?
500
Third World.
What were the countries that were not aligned with the USSR or the US. These were poorer, less developed countries.
500
Fulgencio Batista.
Who was the dictator of Cuba, in power before his overthrow by Fidel Castro and the communist revolutionaries?
500
This caused President Truman to relieve General MacArthur of his command during the Korean War.
What is the use of nuclear weapons against China?
500
During the 1970's, President ____________pursued the policy of ____________with the USSR.
Who is Nixon; detente?
500
The reason why the USSR was able to establish communish in the Eastern European countries after World War II.
What is because the Soviets already had troops there, and they refused to leave. They wanted a buffer between the USSR and the countries of Western Europe.