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Cold War: Superpowers Face Off
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Wars in Korea and Vietnam
Cold War Divides the World
The Cold War Thaws
100
This was the division between East and West Germany that Churchill coined.
What is Iron Curtain
100

The area of the world where OPEC is located

What is the Middle East

100
The line that divides North and South Korea
What is the 38th Parallel
100
These consisted of developing nations, newly independent, and not aligned with either superpower.
What is Third World
100

The Soviet leader who worked with President Kennedy to avoid nuclear war

Who is Nikita Krushchev

200

This was an international organization that was intended to prevent war between nations using diplomatic methods

What is The United Nations

200
To accuse people of an unfounded charge can be called ___________________, after the man who led witch hunts of communists in the 50s.
What is McCarthyism
200
This is the general that wanted a nuclear attack against China and tried to go over the president's head by taking it to Congress
Who is Douglas MacArthur
200

Muslim leader who opposed Western influences and was living in exile.  Replaced the Shah of Iran in the 1970s.

Who is Ayatollah Khomeini

200
The name of the policy of lessening Cold War tensions
What is detente
300
This is the foreign policy adopted by President Truman, aimed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism.
What is containment
300
A massacre here turned many Americans against the soldiers in Vietnam
What is My Lai
300
Southeast Asian nations were compared to this, President Eisenhower said. The fall of one to communism would lead to the fall of its neighbors.
What is domino theory
300

He was the Soviet leader who was open to reforms such as glasnost, which relaxed government restrictions on freedom of speech and the press

Who is Gorbachev 

300
He was the U.S. president during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy
400
This was the assistance program that would provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe
What is Marshall Plan
400

Civil rights leader who favored using violence and intimidation, believed in black supremacy

Who is Malcom X

400
This was Nixon's plan that allowed U.S. troops to gradually pull out of Vietnam
What is Vietnamization
400
Failed invasion by anti-Castro Cuban exiles that waited for U.S. air support and never showed
What is Bay of Pigs
400
President Reagan's famous quote made at the Brandenburg Gate just before the end of the Cold War

What is "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall"

500
This is the acronym for NATO
What is North Atlantic Treaty Organization
500
program for those in poverty to provide medical insurance.
What is Medicaid
500

This was the name of Vietnam before it gained independence from France in the 1950's.

What is French Indochina

500

He was the deposed (overthrown) leader of Cuba

Who is Batista

500

Name two former Soviet Satellite country (present day name)

What are: Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Lithuania, Estonia, Romania