Unit 18 Vocab

Question 1

Organization of many countries that intended to protect the members against aggression

Answer 1

United Nations

Question 2

The division between the democratic west Europe’s and the communist east Europe

Answer 2

Iron curtain

Question 3

A policy directed at blocking soviet influence and preventing the expansion of communism

Answer 3

Containment

Question 4

Truman’s support for countries that rejected communism

Answer 4

Truman doctrine

Question 5

American aid to any European country that needed such as providing food machines and other materials

Answer 5

Marshall plan

Question 6

A state of diplomatic hostility that developed between the two superpowers

Answer 6

Cold War

Question 7

North Atlantic treaty organization

Answer 7

NATO

Question 8

The soviets developed planned alliance system in 1955 as a part of their own containment policy

Answer 8

Warsaw Pact

Question 9

Willing to go to the edge of war

Answer 9

Brinkmanship

Question 10

The event of the soviets shooting down a plane and capturing the pilot for 19 months

Answer 10

U-2 incident

Question 11

The communist leader of China during china’s civil war

Answer 11

Mao Zedong

Question 12

Nationalist leader in China during the civil war

Answer 12

Jiang Jieshi

Question 13

Large collective farms

Answer 13

Commune

Question 14

Rebel militia units

Answer 14

Red Guards

Question 15

A major cultural uprising

Answer 15

Cultural revoltion

Question 16

A line that crosses North Korea 38 degrees North latitude

Answer 16

38th parallel

Question 17

United Nations General during the war in Korea

Answer 17

Douglas MacArthur

Question 18

Young Vietnamese nationalists

Answer 18

Ho Chi Minh

Question 19

Rising threat in Asia

Answer 19

Domino theory

Question 20

Leader of the southern anti communist part of Vietnam

Answer 20

NGO Dinh Diem

Question 21

Communist guerrillas

Answer 21

Vietcong

Question 22

The plan to withdrawal American troops out of Vietnam

Answer 22

Vietnamization

Question 23

Communist rebels

Answer 23

Khmer Rouge

Question 24

The part of the world that is categorized as developing nations

Answer 24

Third world

Question 25

A third force of independent countries

Answer 25

Nonaligned nations

Question 26

Leader in the Cuban Revolution

Answer 26

Fidel Castro

Question 27

Nicaraguan dictator

Answer 27

Anastasia Somoza

Question 28

Sandinistas leader during the civil war

Answer 28

Daniel Ortega

Question 29

Iranian leader

Answer 29

Shah mohammed Rena Pahlavi

Question 30

Leader in Islam against the strict religious rule

Answer 30

Ayatollah ruholla khomeini

Question 31

Leader in the Soviet Union after stalin

Answer 31

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 32

Purging the Soviet Union of Stalin’s memory

Answer 32

Destalinization

Question 33

Leader in the Soviet Union after Khrushchev who favored Stalin’s policies

Answer 33

Leonids Brezhnev

Question 34

President during Cuban missile tensions

Answer 34

John F. Kennedy

Question 35

Man who too other role of president after Kennedy’s assassination

Answer 35

Lyndon Johnson

Question 36

A policy to lessen the Cold War tensions

Answer 36

Detente

Question 37

President that put détente and SALT into place

Answer 37

Richard Nixon

Question 38

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

Answer 38

SALT

Question 39

President after Nixon, strongly anti communist, continued Nixon’s plans, put Star Wars into place

Answer 39

Ronald Reagan

Question 40

The Strategic Defense Initiative that would protect America against enemy missiles, that never went fully into affect

Answer 40

Star Wars