China/ Cold War review

The main reason the United Nations sent troops in Korea in 1950 was to:

Oct. 1934, Chinese Com. broke through Nationalist enemy lines and began a flight from their headquarters in SW China

True or false the Domino Theory is the idea if one country falls to democracy, neighboring countries will also fall.

Detente is a "relaxation" period of cooling off and easing of tensions.

What was the policy of Containment?

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan were designed to promote economic and political stability in Europe.

Proxy Wars results when opposing powers use 3rd parties as substitutes for fighting each other directly.

The Premier of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis was Khrushchev.

Where did the nationalists forces flee after the Revolution of 1949 and communist victory in the Chinese Civil War?

US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

The Soviet response to NATO established by The USSR and other soviet satellite states

S.A.L.T. stands for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

The Berlin Airlift was the military alliance of European and North American democracies founded after WWII.

In China, the terms "commune, Great Leap Forward," and "Cultural Revolution" are associated with the

Three Bitter Years in China were 1958-1960

Nationalist government of China after the Revolution of 1911

Within their respective nations, both Ho Chi Minh and Fidel Castro achieved their goals by-

Chinese Leader who took over after the death of Mao Zedong

Joseph McCarthy was the main senator who spread anti-communist ideas during the Red Scare.

What was the main result of the Korean War?

Which event started the space race?

N.M.T.O. was the 1940s military op that supplied west Berlin with food after the USSR Blockade.

The Cold War ended in 1989.

The Berlin Wall was torn down in 1989.

The military approach in which a country pushes a situation extremely close to a dangerous point

Blockade of Berlin, Berlin Airlift, Org of the Warsaw Pact, and Construction of the Berlin Wall are all ex. of what?

Nikita Krushchev was the Soviet Leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

"Mutually Assured Destruction" is .......

Founder of the Indochina Communist Part and president from 1945 to 1969 of North Vietnam

US president at the end of WW2,

Who took over command of the nationalists after the death of Sun Yat-Sen?

The Communists and Nationalists fought in the the Chinese Civil War

Zedong's goal of changing China from an agrarian society to an industrial society

Conference among the Big 3, decide what to do with Germany after the war.

The Postdam Conference contributed to the Cold War by splitting Germany into 3 parts.

The policy of increasing tensions, going as close to war as possible, like a game of chicken is called

What was the goal of Mao Zedong's policy known as the Great Leap Forward?

Mao Zedong led communist forces in China from 1927 through 1949

Kennedy was the president of the USA during the Cuban Missile Crisis.