What European nation colonized Vietnam and Indochina until after WWII?
France
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What was a result of the Vietnam War?
Vietnam was united under a communist government
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Russian President Boris Yeltsin and which U.S. president declared the formal end of the Cold War at the Camp David meeting?
George H.W. Bush
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Who coined the term "iron curtain"?
Winston Churchill
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What was the Marshall Plan?
United States economic aid program to rebuild Western Europe
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What part of Korea did the U.S. support during and after the Korean War?
South Korea
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During what Cold War conflict in the 1950's did American troops under the United Nations face Chinese militia?
Korean War
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President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis
John F Kennedy
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Who was the head of the USSR
Khrushchev
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
U.S. military program to help nations fight off soviet aggression
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This Asian nation entered the Korean War on the side of the North after United Nations troops pushed close to its borders
China
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The Truman Doctrine first helped which two countries against the threat of communism?
Greece and Turkey
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How many presidents were there during the Cold War?
9;Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and George H.W. Bush
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Who was the communist nationalist leader of Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
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What is NATO?
Military alliance between the United States, Canada and Western European nations
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When was the reunification of Germany?
1990
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If one country fell to communism, other countries in the region would follow. This was known as...
The Domino Theory
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Who was the president during the Vietnam War who urges congress to pass the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
Lyndon Johnson
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Who commanded the UN forces that supported South Korea?
Douglas MacArthur
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
A military alliance made up of the Soviet Union and Eastern European nations to stop the influence of democracy and capitalism
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This European nation tried to break free from the Soviet Union in 1968 but Soviet troops crushed their attempt at freedom
Czechoslovakia
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What were Americans who opposed the Vietnam war called?
What were the names for those who supported it?
Opposed-Doves
Supported-Hawks
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Leonid Brezhnev and which U.S. president signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks?
Richard Nixon
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Who had the policies of glasnost and perestroika?
Mikhail Gorbachev
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What was detante?
A period in the 1970's when the United States and the Soviet Union had an easing of tensions during the Cold War