The word used to describe the countries of the U.S. and the Soviet Union after World War II.
What were superpowers?
100
The leader of China during the Cold War.
Who was Mao Zedong?
100
Cuba received aid from this country during the time period we are studying.
What was the Soviet Union?
100
The country that gained control of Vietnam during the late 1800s.
What was France?
100
The policy of separating races in schools, public places, businesses, etc.
What is segregation?
200
The conference in which tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union began.
What was the Yalta Conference?
200
The United States fought with this area during the Korean War.
What was South Korea?
200
This event was when Cuban exiles supported by the U.S. military landed on Cuba’s southern coast and tried to overthrow the government.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
200
This resolution authorized the president to “take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression.”
What was the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
200
This Brown v the Board of Education overturned this Supreme Court decision.
What was Plessy v. Ferguson?
300
The phrase that came to stand for the division of Europe between a mostly democratic Western Europe and a communist Eastern Europe.
What was the Iron Curtain?
300
Korea was divided along this line into Communist north and non-communist south.
What is the 38th parallel?
300
In 1962, an American U-2 surveillance flight saw medium and intermediate missile sites under construction in this country.
What was Cuba?
300
He became the leader of North Vietnam.
Who was Ho Chi Minh?
300
In order to enforce the integration of schools, President Eisenhower had to send the army to this location.
What was Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas?
400
Berlin was located in this occupied territory of Germany.
What was the Soviet Union?
400
This area attacked first in the Korean War.
What was North Korea?
400
The closest the United States and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war.
What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
400
On January 30, 1968, the Vietcong and North Vietnamese launched a massive surprise attack in South Vietnam known as this.
What was the Tet Offensive?
400
This event was started after Rosa Parks would not give up her seat to a white man in Alabama.
What were the Montgomery Bus Boycotts?
500
The name given to the American plan to spend money to rebuild Europe and to help stimulate economic growth and trade.
What was the Marshall Plan?
500
This country invaded China in 1937, which forced the Nationalists and Communists to unite to defeat this common enemy.
Who was Japan?
500
The leader of Cuba when Eisenhower cut off diplomatic relations with the country.
Who was Fidel Castro?
500
Why was the United States involved in the war in Vietnam.