Cold War Era

Question 0

Policy against communism that included the development of regional alliances against soviet and Chinese aggression

Answer 0

Containment

Question 1

• February 1945
• Big 3 met to reorganize post war Europe (Reestablish the nations conquered by Germany)
• Divided Germany and Berlin into 4 sections

Answer 1

Yalta Conference

Question 2

Leader of the pro-communist movement in north Vietnam

Answer 2

Ho Chi Minh

Question 3

• French imperial control of Vietnam
• US backed south Vietnam and leaves in the 1970s
• Guerrilla warfare

Answer 3

Vietnam War

Question 4

• Soviets blockaded Berlin to keep everyone out; Pushed out western influence and wanted to possibly create a communist uprising in the economically weak Berlin
• US airlifted supplies over the blockade

Answer 4

Berlin Airlift

Question 5

• 13 days in October 1962 - Kennedy vs. Khrushchev
• USSR had missiles in Cuba and the U.S. had missiles in Turkey
• We convinced the USSR to remove them through diplomatic pressure

Answer 5

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 6

Negative motivational influence

Answer 6

Deterrence

Question 7

‘Thawing’ of the Cold War in the late 1960s and 1970s that caused better communication and cooperation between the U.S. and USSR

Answer 7

Détente

Question 8

British Prime Minister

Answer 8

Margaret Thatcher

Question 9

Last soviet “president”

Answer 9

Mikhail Gorbachev

Question 10

US president in the 1980s

Answer 10

Ronald Reagan

Question 11

Major event in 1989 that caused the immediate reunification of Germany and symbolized the end of the Cold War

Answer 11

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Question 12

• Communist leader after Chinese revolution
• Great leap forward
• Cultural revolution

Answer 12

Mao Zedong

Question 13

• Led Chinese nationalists in Chinese civil war

* Lost war and was banished to Taiwan

Answer 13

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 14

• Reformed communist economy to a market economy

* 1989 Tiananmen Square Protest

Answer 14

Deng Xiaoping

Question 15

President after FDR who created the Truman Doctrine

Answer 15

President Harry S. Truman

Question 16

• Divided North and South Korea after WWII at the 38th parallel
• NK: Communist
• SK: Capitalist
• Stalemate

Answer 16

Korean War

Question 17

Used guerrilla warfare to reunite Vietnam

Answer 17

Viet Cong

Question 18

Sought to prevent other countries from falling under communist influence and promoted democracy

Answer 18

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 19

Designed by the SU to promote communist in response to NATO

Answer 19

Warsaw Pact