The Cold War Quizizz

What defined the border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam?

17th Parallel

Like Germany, Korea was divided into occupations zones. The _____ zones were split by the _______________.

2/38th Parallel

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Truman's declaration to Congress that the US needed to help stop communism

What is the demilitarization zone (DMZ) created at the end of the Korean War

A region where military forces cannot enter

Vietnam was a colony of what country prior to World War II?

France

What did President Eisenhower declare the United States would do what if the Soviet Union attacked any nation?

Launch a massive retaliation

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Nikita Khrushchev

What did Castro stress the importance of before he was leader?

All of the Above

What were the major consequences of World War ||?

All of the answers are correct

What were the problems of fighting in Vietnam?

All of these

What was the Bay of Pigs event?

An attempt by the U.S. government to overthrow Castro

Pushing negotiations to the point just before war breaks out in order to protect national interests

Brinkmanship

Salt stands for

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Which of the following was a key decisions made at the Yalta Conference in Feb. 1945?

The division of Germany into four zones of occupation (French, British, American, Soviet)

Who are the 5 permanent members of the Security Council in the United Nations?

United States, Russia, China, France and the United Kingdom

Shifting the burden of actual combat from American troops to S. Vietnamese forces.

Vietminization

Nixon's new policy of __________ with the Soviet Union is meant to ease tensions.

Detente

The Yalta Conference resulted in what to Germany

Division and payment to the USSR

The idea that if South Vietnam fell to communism, other nations would soon follow...

Domino Theory

Who was put in charge of the American forces in Korea and even wanted to use the atomic bomb against China?

Douglas MacArthur

What was the main goal of the USSR after WWII?

Encourage Communism and Control Eastern Europe

What was the main goal of the United States after WWII?

Encourage Democracy and Rebuild Europe

Nixon is the first president to go and visit...

China

What was the Berlin Wall a symbol of?

Communism

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, what did President J.F. Kennedy do when he heard that the Soviet Union was constructing nuclear missile sites in Cuba.

He ordered a naval blockade around Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from bringing the necessary materials.

He was the communist leader of North Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh

Truman believed the invasion of South Korea was for the Soviet Union to spread communism throughout the world. He was worried if South Korea fell, ____________ would be next in line.

Japan and other Asian countries

What did the Soviet launch of Sputnik and the Vanguard failure led America to develop?

The nation's space program

Which term means economic restructuring and more lax policies on private ownership?

Perestroika

What did the Marshall Plan do?

Provided aid to countries recovering from World War ||

What was the Berlin Airlift?

Supplying food and goods to Berlin

The ____________ cut off Eastern Europe from the West metaphorically speaking.

The Iron Curtain

In 1950, Korea fought a civil war over the spread of communism. Communists from the north tried to take over the south. What role did the US play in this war?

The US and its allies joined the fight to keep communism from spreading

What was created by the Soviet Union in response to NATO

Warsaw Pact