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A line that seperates North and South Korea at 38 degrees latitude.
What is the 38th parallel?
100
Mao Zedong.
What is the name of the communist leader?
100
A country that is dominated politically and economically by another country.
What is a satellite nation?
100
He openly declared himself as a communist and welcomed aid from the Soviet Union.
Who is Fidel Castro?
100
This soviet leader ordered the creation of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
When the North Korean troops invades South Korea on June 20, 1950.
What is the initial start of the Korean war?
200
Chiang Kai-shek.
What is the name of the nationalist president?
200
Concrete wall created to seperate West and East Berlin to prevent citizens from fleeing from the west.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
Trained Cuban exiles helped the U.S. try and topple Castros regime.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
He was the president at the time both countries had the "H bomb."
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
300
North Korea is communist.
What is communist, North Korea or South Korea?
300
Taiwan.
What is the island that the nationalists were forced to?
300
A 327-day operation in which U.S. and Britian planes flew supplies into West Berlin after Soviets blockaded the city in 1948.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
300
The U.S. found out that cuba was being used to build nuclear weapons.
What is Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
U-2 pilot.
Who is Fracis Gary Powers?
400
They forced the UN troops to retreat acress the 38th parallel.
What is the result when the chinese intervene in November 1950?
400
American policy favored the Nationalists because they opposed communism.
What is the reason behind American support in China?
400
The downing of the U.S. spy plane and the capture of it's pilot by the Soviets.
What is the U-2 incident?
400
Kennedy promised not to invadde cuba if the soviets promised not to use the nuclear weapons against us.
What is the result of the Crisis?
400
Anti-communist activist and senator.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
500
Attacking China would set off World War lll.
What is the reasoning behind the mutual-assistance pact with China and the Soviet Union?
500
Chinas weak military leadership and corrupt, abusive practices.
What is the thing that pushes china's peasants to the communist side?
500
It traveled around the earth at 18,000 mph circling the globe every 96.2 minutes, it's weight of nearly 200 lbs. indicated that 1.1 million pounds of thrust had been used to lift it into orbit- more than enough to deliver a warhead from the Soviet Union to any target in the world.
What is Sputnik?
500
World War 3.
What is avoided of the cuban missile crisis?
500
Became president after Roosevelts death and unprepared for the duties of presidency.
Who is Harry Truman?