Precolonial Americas
What Columbus believed he would find when traveling west.
What is a shorter route to Asia?
The arms race between the US and the Soviet Union was a race to develop these type of weapons.
What are nuclear weapons?
The communist ousting of China's previous nationalist government was led by this man.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Native Americans in the Southwest region were significantly impacted by the introduction of this crop.
What is maize?
The prevention of the spread of Russian politics & ideologies.
What is containment?
The CIA sent exiled Cubans to this place in hopes that they could spark an uprising.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Spanish used this system to force Natives to work for them.
What is encomienda?
The first European countries to claim land in the Americas.
What are Spain & Portugal?
These were countries that the Soviet Union used as a buffer between itself and the rest of Europe.
What are satellite states?
This parallel split North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
How many different native American languages were there?
What is more than 400?
The transatlantic slave trade brought this many enslaved people to America.
What is 10–15 million?
The Soviet Union responded to the creation of NATO with this military alliance between communist states.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This 1962 event had the US set up a naval blockade around Cuba for 13 days.
What is the Cuban missile crisis?