Cold War
The Eastern European response to NATO
The Warsaw Pact
The last president of U.S.S.R.
Mikhail Gorbachev
The two sides in China's Civil War were called the ____ and Communists
Nationalists
This was used as the border between North Korea and South Korea
38th parallel
In South Vietnam, US forces were fighting the
Vietcong
Truman's policy for halting the spread of communism
Containment
Helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, or Viet Minh, in 1941; declared the President of North Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh
The _______ side was supported by the US
Nationalist
This country had control of the Korean peninsula before World War II
Japan
In colonial times, Vietnam was a colony of
France
A failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligence Agency on 17 April 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Great Britain's first female Prime Minister, elected in 1979
Margaret Thatcher
This campaign was launched by China's leader, Mao, in 1966 with the aim of restoring radical Communist values
The Cultural Revolution
He was the main general for the United Nations and the United States at the start of the war
Douglass McArthur
In 1968 North Vietnamese troops attacked the South in a surprise daring attack called the __________. It was a turning point in the war
Tet Offensive
13 day standoff between the US and USSR in 1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
Leader of the People's Republic of China from 1978 to 1989
Deng Xiaoping
The new name for China under Mao Zedong
People's Republic of China
This country entered the war on the side of North Korea and changed the direction of the war
China
This was a hamlet in South Vietnam where innocent Vietnamese villagers were murdered by American troops under orders from Lt. Calley
My Lai
One of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
Berlin Blockade
Ronald Reagan
These militia units formed when Mao attempted to revive the revolution in 1966
Red Guard
The Korean War ended with a
Cease-fire
Who led the Khmer Rouge in a reign of terror as they executed millions of Cambodians?
Pol Pot