Two Superpowers Face Off
The blocking of another nation's attempts to spread its influence - especially the efforts of the United States to block the spread of Soviet influence during the late 1940s and early 1950s ...
Answer: containment.
Chairman of the People's Republic of China, 1949-59, and of the Chinese Communist party, 1943-76. Who am I?
Answer: Mao Zedong (or Mao Tse-tung).
33rd president of the United States, 1945-53 (from death of F. D. Roosevelt; elected to full term in 1948). Who am I?
Answer: Harry S. Truman.
During the Cold War, the developing nations not allied with either the United States or the Soviet Union ...
Answer: Third World.
Premier of the Soviet Union, 1958-64. Who am I?
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev.
The practice of threatening an enemy with massive military retaliation for any aggression ...
Answer: brinkmanship.
President of the Republic of China, 1950-76. Who am I?
Answer: Jiang Jieshi (or Chiang Kai-shek)
U.S. general. Who am I?
Answer: Douglas MacArthur.
The independent countries that remained neutral in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union ...
Answer: non-aligned nations.
35th president of the U.S., 1961-63. Who am I?
Answer: John F. Kennedy.
A phrase used by Winston Churchill in 1946 to describe an imaginary line that separated Communist countries in the Soviet bloc of Eastern Europe from countries in Western Europe ...
Answer: iron curtain.
In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together ...
Answer: commune.
The South Vietnamese Communists who, with North Vietnamese support, fought against the government of South Vietnam in the Vietnam War ...
Answer: Vietcong.
Cuban revolutionary leader: prime minister, 1959-76; president, 1976-2008. Who am I?
Answer: Fidel Castro.
President of the Soviet Union, 1960-64, 1977-82, general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, 1966-82. Who am I?
Answer: Leonid Brezhnev.
A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European countries, the United States, and Canada ...
Answer: North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Militia units formed by young Chinese people in 1966 in response to Mao Zedong's call for a social and cultural revolution ...
Answer: Red Guards.
A person who flees from home or country to seek refuge elsewhere, often because of political upheaval or famine ...
Answer: refugee.
Belonging to a leftist rebel group that overthrew the Nicaraguan government in 1979 ...
Answer: Sandinista.
37th president of the U.S., 1969-74 (resigned). Who am I?
Answer: Richard M. Nixon.
A meeting of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin in Yalta (Feb. 4-12, 1945) to continue war and peace planning and esp. to agree upon voting procedure in the proposed Security Council of the U.N. ...
Answer: Yalta Conference.
A 1966-1976 uprising in China, led by the Red Guards, with the goal of establishing a society of peasants and workers in which all were equal ...
Answer: Cultural Revolution.
An imaginary line marking 38 degrees latitude, particularly the line across the Korean Peninsula, dividing Soviet forces to the north and American forces to the south after WWII ...
Answer: 38th parallel.
Nicaraguan rebels who received assistance from the Reagan administration in their efforts to overthrow the Sandinista government in the 1980s ...
Answer: Contras.
The flexible policy, involving a willingness to negotiate and an easing of tensions, that was adopted by President Richard Nixon and his adviser Henry Kissinger in their dealings with communist nations ...
Answer: detente.