Test #4: The Cold War

Beginnings

100

Name of the military alliance created by the United States and their allies to supplement the diplomatic alliance known as the United Nations

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

200

Name of the leader who created the Soviet Union and instituted communism in Russia?

Vladimir Lenin

300

What is the name of the event that necessitated the building of the Berlin Wall, keeping the democratically and communist controlled sides split for 28 years?

The Berlin Airlift

400

Policy adopted by the United States which sought to stop the spread of communism

Containment

500

Term given as the reason why the United States and the Soviet Union did not engage in a direct military conflict during the Cold War (hint: an acronym for it is M.A.D.)

Mutually Assured Destruction

Proxy Wars 1

100

What was the "spark" that began the Korean War?

North Korea invading South Korea to capture the city of Seoul

200

Name of the communist leader of Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

300

The name of the term given when two adversaries agree to stop fighting

Armistice

400

Name of the boundary between North Korea and South Korea

The 38th Parallel

500

Term used to describe the urgent & widespread building of nuclear weapons (not just by the USSR & the US)

Nuclear Proliferation

Proxy Wars 2

100

Name of the effective Vietnamese military strategy that allowed them to fend off strong Western militaries such as the French and the United States

Guerrilla Warfare

200

Name of the Vietnamese militia that fought against the United States during the Vietnam War

Vietcong

300

Lon Nol, US-backed leader of Cambodia, lost popularity with his people because he allowed the United States to bomb his country in the hopes of eliminating which American enemy?

The Vietnamese

400

Leader of the Cambodian communist coalition

Pol Pot

500

Name of the Cambodian communist coalition

Khmer Rouge

Communism

100

Maoism, Leninism, and Marxism are all versions of what type of government?

Communism

200

Name of the military alliance created by the Soviet Union to counter the United States & their allies

The Warsaw Pact

300

Term given for when a communist government takes money and resources from their people and redistributes them amongst the population

Collectivization

400

American theory that if one Southeast Asian country fell to communism, then others would surely fall to communism as well

"Domino Theory"

500

Names of the three democratic countries which controlled the western half of Germany and Berlin (its capital) in the wake of World War II

Great Britain, France, & the United States

The End... Or Is It?

100

Glasnost & Perestroika were examples of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms in the Soviet Union which...

Gave his people more freedom

Glasnost = freedom of expression & information

Perestroika = restructure government & economy

200

Term used to describe the easing of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union in the final decades of the Cold War

Detente

300

Name of the leader in China after Mao Zedong who introduced elements of capitalism into the communist Chinese economy

Deng Xiaoping

400

Name of the talks between the Soviet Union and the United States which led to a reduction in nuclear arms (also called "detente") and began in 1969

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)

500

In what year did the Soviet Union collapse?

1991