Cold War: Conflicts
The capital of Germany, occupied by both Soviet and NATO forces after WWII.
What is Berlin?
Portugal's struggle to control this African colony persisted for decades and highlighted the struggle of some nations to be freed from colonial rule even after WWII.
What is Angola?
A term for the 1968 uprising in which Czechoslovakian students and activists demanded greater freedom before being repressed by Soviet forces.
What is the Prague Spring?
A term for a widespread societal fear of communism and communist activities.
What is the Red Scare?
Cuba was subjected to this ban on exports/imports to the U.S. as a result of its communist government.
What is an embargo?
The dictator of Chile who protected foreign investments in Chilean industry while brutally repressing dissent.
Who is Augusto Pinochet?
Achieving independence in 1947, this nation negotiated with its former colonizer for independence without waging war.
What is India?
What is China?
Under this President, the U.S.'s SDI plan shook the confidence of the U.S.S.R. in its ability to keep up technologically with the U.S.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
A 1959 invention enabling the long-range use of nuclear weapons.
What is an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)?
In 1953, an armistice divided this peninsula between Communist north and Capitalist south.
What is Korea?
Due to the efforts of Muslim activists, this nation gained independence in 1947 in a significant "partition."
What is Pakistan?
The 1956 Suez Crisis is taken as symbolic of the decline of this former empire's influence over world affairs.
What is Great Britain?
A leader who employed nonviolent tactics to achieve legal protection for African Americans.
Who is Martin Luther King Jr.?
A term for China's rapid industrialization during the late 1950s & early 1960s.
What is the Great Leap Forward?
These three nations were all defeated by Vietnam as it pursued its independence.
What are France, United States, & China?
The Anti-colonial leader of Ghana credited with establishing the OAU.
Who is Kwame Nkrumah?
A term for Gorbachev's introduction of foreign corporations to the Soviet market in the 80s & 90s.
What is perestroika?
Under this President, the United States increased its involvement in Vietnam during the 1960s, escalating Cold War tensions.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ)?
The spread of this technology in the 1970s & 1980s made it difficult for the Soviet government to prevent images of capitalist lifestyles from spreading in the U.S.S.R.
What is TV?
JFK's failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban government in 1961.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Formerly known as "East Pakistan," this nation gained independence in 1971.
What is Bangladesh?
A term for the cooling of tensions between the U.S. & U.S.S.R in the 1970s, setting the stage for the cold war's end in 1991.
What is detente?
Under this leader, communism was established in Cuba and the world nearly erupted into nuclear war in 1962.
Who is Fidel Castro?
The Soviet economy collapsed thanks to the miscalculated and expensive invasion of this region.
What is Afghanistan?