Tryna Learn About China
Leader of the Communist revolution in China, and ruler until 1976.
Who was Mao Zedong?
He is the current leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong Un?
He overthrew Batista and ruled Cuba for almost 50 years
Who was Fidel Castro?
A wall was built around the western half of this city in 1961, to keep people from leaving the communist eastern half
What is Berlin?
This is the most severe DEFCON level. Thank goodness we never got past level 2.
What is DEFCON 1?
Who was Richard Nixon?
Korea is an example of this type of war, where major powers face off against each other through smaller nations.
What is a proxy war?
In addition to guaranteeing Cuba's sovereignty, President Kennedy agreed to remove weapons from this eastern European country to help resolve the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is Turkey?
The theory that states that if one country falls to communism, others follow.
What is the Domino Theory?
He was Rocky Balboa's Russian opponent in Rocky IV, in which the Philadelphia boxer more or less won the Cold War and avenged his friend's death.
Who was Ivan Drago?
This country saw itself as the true government of China until 1991, when they finally recognized that the Communist Party ruled mainland China.
What is Taiwan?
The current division between North and South Korea, which is among the most militarized in the world.
What is the Demilitarized Zone, or DMZ?
This time in the 1990s saw Cuba struggle economically and socially after the fall of the Soviet Union.
What is the Special Period?
It is likely that the CIA helped in the planning of the assassination of this leader of the Congo in 1960.
Who was Patrice Lumumba?
In Operation Paperclip, German rocket scientists were brought to America to work for this agency.
What is NASA?
An unknown number of student protesters lost their lives here in 1989 while demanding government reform.
Where is Tiananmen Square?
American general and World War II icon Douglas MacArthur was fired by this President after China entered the Korean War.
Who was Harry Truman?
This disastrous 1961 invasion by CIA-trained Cuban ex-patriates caused Cuba to seek Soviet protection.
What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This Soviet leader was outraged during a 1959 visit to America when he was denied admission into Disneyland
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
This chimpanzee was the first American great ape in space
Who was HAM?
This disastrous economic and social initiative led to the deaths of up to 20 million Chinese people from 1958 until 1962.
What was the Great Leap Forward?
North and South Korea were divided along this parallel after World War II.
What was the 38th?
He trained revolutionaries in Cuba, Africa, and Central and South America. He also rocked a mean beret.
Who was Che Guevara?
Leader of the Soviet Union in the 1980s that encouraged openness and reform.
Who was Gorbachev?
This 1970s movie sequel featured the Cuban revolution as a plot point.
What is The Godfather: Part 2?