This policy was meant to prevent the spread of Communism?
What is Containment Policy
100
What three countries met at the Yalta Conference in 1945 and agreed to divide Germany up into 4 zones.
What is United States, Britain, Soviet Union
100
North and South Korea were separated at what number parallel?
What is the 38th Parallel
100
There was a civil war between which two groups in China?
What is the Communists and the Nationalists
100
Who was the leader of the Communist forces in North Vietnam?
What is Ho Chi Minh
200
The US and Canada plus 10 other nations joined what international alliance?
What is NATO
200
What international peace keeping group was created in 1945. Its headquarters are in New York.
What is the United Nations
200
The United States supported which side in the Korean War?
What is the non-Communist South Korea
200
Who was the leader of the Communists in China?
What is Mao Zedong
200
The idea that if one country becomes Communist, all countries will follow is called?
What is Domino Theory
300
The Soviet Union alliance with Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and others was called the?
Warsaw Pact
300
This plan was engineered to help rebuild post war Europe?
What is the Marshall Plan
300
The area constantly guarded between the two Koreas is called the?
What is DMZ or demilitarized zone
300
The Red Guards (young students) led an uprising to promote Communism which was called the?
What is the Cultural Revolution
300
The Communist guerilla fighters were called the?
What is the Vietcong
400
The willingness to go to the edge of war was called?
What is Brinkmanship
400
When the Soviet Union held West Berlin hostage, the allied forces reacted by enacting what?
What is the Berlin Airlift
400
Forces from what country joined the Korean War against the United Nations?
What is China
400
The 5 year plan to jumpstart the economy was transformed into what other program? (it called for large collective farms called Communes and was not successful)
What is the Great Leap Forward
400
The process of removing troops from Vietnam and strengthening the South Vietnamese put in place by Nixon was called?
What is Vietnamization
500
What was the name for Europe's division into democratic Western Europe and Communist Eastern Europe?
What is the Iron Curtain
500
Truman announced he would aid other countries like Turkey and Greece if threatened by foreign influence (especially communist influence). What his announcement titled?
What is the Truman Doctrine
500
This American general led the UN forces in the Korean War
What is General Douglas MacArthur
500
Mao's plan for the economy was based on what ideology?
What is Marxist Socialism
500
What empire were the Vietnamese orignally fighting against for independence?