NATO/Warsaw Pact
What does NATO Stand for?
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What two countries participated in both the space and arms races against each other?
The U.S. and USSR
Who was the communist leader of China?
Moa Zedong
How many red scares were there?
2
What was the dividing line between North and South, before and during the war?
The 38th Parallel
What does article 5 of the NATO treaty say?
An attack against one is an attack against all
What was the name of the first Soviet satellite launch?
Sputnik
What did the red guards carry with them?
The Little Red Book
What was the fear of during the red scare(s)?
Communism
Who was the leader of South Korea?
Syngman Rhee
12
What was the advanced type of nuclear power called?
hydrogen bomb
What were the two conflicting ideologies of the Chinese Civil War?
Nationalism and Communism
The summer of 1919
Which side was the first to launch an attack?
The North
What was the one European communist country that did not join The Warsaw Pact?
Yugoslavia
Who were the first people on the moon?
Where did the Nationalist leader flee to after the Chinese Civil War?
Taiwan
What were Ethel and Julius Rosenberg charged with?
Conspiracy to commit espionage
How is Kim Il Sung related to the current leader of North Korea?
It is his grandson
What was the term for the ideological barrier between east and west in europe?
The Iron Curtain
Who was the first person in space?
Yuri Gagarin
What year did Mao Zedong Die, effectively ending the cultural Revolution?
1976
What was the name (first and last) of the senator who lead the anticommunist push of the second red scare?
John McCarthy
How far back does Korean culture date back to?
57 BCE (or three kingdoms period)