Cold War
Who was the Nicaraguan dictatorship that was supported by the US against the communist Sandinista's?
Anastasio Somoza
The competition for supremacy between the USA and the USSR after World War II took many forms. the technological showdown was?
Arms Race
Who was the leader of the religious opposition in Iran who wanted to move the country to traditional Muslim values?
Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini
What two things needed to be confiscated from the imperialist in Vietnam according to Ho Chi Minh?
Banks and businesses and plantations and property.
What was it called when the U.S. tried to overthrow the government of Cuba?
Bay of pigs
Why did the United States involve itself militarily in Korea and Vietnam in the 1950s and 1960s?
Because of the domino theory, the US felt military support was necessary to contain communism.
What was the barrier against fascism?
Berlin Wall
What countries nationalist party was run by Chiang Kai-Shek?
China
What country was led by Communist leader Mao Zedong?
China
What was the first Asian country to fall to communism?
China
Who were the Sandinista's and what did they do?
Communist rebels of Nicaragua who seized power from Somoza and established military rule.
What policy change did the Soviet Union make in the 1980's?
Could not provide supports for friendly communist government
What Soviet country hoped for freedom because of Prague Spring?
Czechoslovakia
What is the idea that if one country falls to communism so will it neighbors??
Domino theory
Who was the Communist leader of Cuba ?
Fidel Castro
Who was the Communist leader of North Vietnam?
Ho Chi Minh
What Soviet country fought for Freedom and lost?
Hungary
All of the following statements about the "iron curtain" are true, EXCEPT ________.
It was a high brick wall that stretched all the way across Europe
Which of the following nations did NOT become a communist satellite state after World War II?
Japan
Who was the brutal Communist government in Cambodia?
Khmer Rough
What was the little Red book?
Mao visions and aspirations for China.
Who was the U.S. congressman who questioned suspected Communist??
McCarthy
What happened because of China's Great Leap forward?
Millions died due to starvation.
Who did the U.S. back in Afghanistan?
Mujahedeen
What does M.A.D stand for and what does it mean?
Mutually Assured Destruction, if the USSR attacked the US, the US would attack and everyone would be gone.
Which of the following alliances was formed by the USA as a barrier to defend against the spread of communism?
NATO
Who was the anti-communist leader of South Vietnam who was backed by the French and the U.S.?
Ngo Dinh Diem
Where was Mao's revolution going to come from?
Peasants
What was Perestroika?
Reconstruction; a series of liberalizing economic, political, and cultural reforms to make the Soviet economy more efficient.
How did the Marshall Plan propose to contain communism?
Restore economic stability to Europe after WWII
Who was the ruler of Iran after WWII that embraced western governments and wealthy oil companies??
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
After World War II, what two nations emerged as world superpowers with more industrial and military strength than other countries?
Soviet Union and the United States
What countries belonged to the Warsaw Pact??
Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia
What was the Berlin Airlift?
Soviet land blockade was flown over
Where did the Chinese Nationalist retreat to?
Taiwan
What was the Cold War?
Tensions between the U.S. and Soviet Union following WWII, with no direct confrontation.
What is a proxy war?
The USSR and America never fought each other head on, but both sides would aid and support other countries.
What was the Iron Curtain?
The dividing line of Western democracies and eastern communist countries in Europe.
What was detente?
The easing of tension between the U.S. and Russia and the decrease of nuclear weapons.
Which of the following describes the Soviet strategy in creating communist states in Africa, Asia, and Latin America?
They targeted countries where revolutions were brewing, so that new communist governments could be set up after the revolutionaries succeeded.
Why was Iran and Mussadegh angry with the West after WWII?
They were opposed to foreign powers having control over their country.
What consists of developing nations, often newly independent, who were not aligned with either superpower?
Third world
How did the world decided to deal with situation of Israel and Palestine?
To divide Palestine into a smaller Palestine and a new Jewish state of Israel.
What was the Truman Doctrine?
U. S. foreign policies of providing military aid to countries threatened by communism.
What countries belonged to NATO??
U.K. United States, Canada, Iceland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Portugal, Belgium, France, Italy, Germany
What was the Marshall Plan?
U.S. plan to provide financial aid to countries threatened by communism.
Which of the following organizations replaced the League of Nations in 1945, with a purpose of serving as an international organization to prevent future wars and settle global conflicts?
United Nations
What did the fist of revolution represent?
Unity of the oppressed people.
The Vietnam War ended in _________________.
Victory for North Vietnam and the creation of a communist state
How was the Genocide ended in Cambodia?
Vietnam led a successful invasion that overthrew the Khmer Rouge Regime.
Who were targets in China during the cultural revolution.
Wealthy, elite, educated
What line divided Korea?
the 38th parallel
What is the 38th parallel?
the degree latitude the divides communist North Korea and democratic South Korea.
President Harry S. Truman adopted a new foreign policy during the Cold War known as the Truman Doctrine. The main goal of the Truman Doctrine was _________________.
to stop the spread of communism
The terms containment, domino theory, and massive retaliation are most closely associated with United States foreign policy efforts to
wage the Cold War in the 1950s