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MISC
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communists.
What is the Korean War?
100
This is where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
100
This country was trying to contain communism.
What is the US?
100
This was a pact between the US, Canada, and other Western European countries.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
100
The division between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th parallel?
200
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
200
This was the communist country that the United States was most afraid of.
What is the USSR?
200
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
200
The division between North and South Vietnam.
What is the 17th parallel?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
The competition of superiority between nations with the development of weapons.
What is Arms Race?
300
This policy was installed to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
This was a pact between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
300
Communist leader of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
400
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945-1991
400
What is this image depicting?
North Korea's leader is more interested in making nuclear weapons than feeding his people.
400
This physical structure was built to divide west and east berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
The disastrous economic plan launched by the Chinese in 1958 was known as the...
Great Leap Forward.
400
What was a major outcome of the Geneva Accords?
Vietnam was divided at the 17th parallel.
500
This was when the US, Britain and France supplied Berlin through the air.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
Why did the Tiananmen Square massacre occur?
Pro-democracy students were protesting against China's communist government.
500
This was the ideological barrier that divided berlin.
What is the iron curtain?
500
Gorbachev program of restructuring the economy was known as
What is perestroika?
500
Gorbachev program of openness to social & cultural areas was known as
What is glasnost?