Vocab For Whole Unit

Question 1

superpowers

Answer 1

nations that are stronger then other nations

Question 2

anti-ballistic

Answer 2

missiles that could shoot down other missiles from hostile countries

Question 3

Ronald Reagan

Answer 3

US president during 1980s that launched a program to build a “star wars” missile defense

Question 4

detente

Answer 4

relaxation of tensions during 1970s

Question 5

Fidel Castro

Answer 5

organized an armed rebellion against corrupt dictator who ruled Cuba

Question 6

John F. Kennedy

Answer 6

supported invasion attempt by US trained exiles

Question 7

Ideology

Answer 7

system of beliefs or values

Question 8

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 8

new soviet leader after Stalin died (1953)

Question 9

Leonid Brezhnev

Answer 9

Nikitas successor in 1960s

Question 10

collectivization

Answer 10

forced pooling of peasant land and labor in an attempt to increase productivity

Question 11

Great Leap Forward

Answer 11

program led by Mao that urged people to make a superhuman effort to increase farm and industrial output (1958-1960)

Question 12

Cultural Rev

Answer 12

Purge of China “Bourgeois” tendencies

Question 13

38th parallel

Answer 13

where US+USSR agreed to divide Korea

Question 14

Kim II Sung

Answer 14

north korean dictator that became and ally of USSR

Question 15

Syngman Rhee

Answer 15

non-communist dictatorial leader that US backed

Question 16

Pusan Perimeter

Answer 16

centered on the port city or Pusan in South East corner of Korean peninsula

Question 17

demilitarized zone

Answer 17

an area with no military forces near the 38th parallel

Question 18

guerrillas

Answer 18

small groups of loosely organized soldiers

Question 19

Ho Chi Minh

Answer 19

leader of guerilla force who was a nationalist and communist that had fought Japanese

Question 20

Dienbienphu

Answer 20

unexpected vietnam victory at this bloody battle (1954)

Question 21

Domino Theory

Answer 21

The view that a communist victory in South Vietnam would cause non-com governments across Southeast Asia to fall to communism

Question 22

Viet Cong

Answer 22

communist rebels trying to overthrow South Vietnam’s government

Question 23

Tet Offensive

Answer 23

marked a turning point in public opinion in US

Question 24

Khmer Rouge

Answer 24

a force of cambodian communist guerillas that gained ground in Cambodia

Question 25

Pol Pot

Answer 25

a brutal dictator that led the Khmer Rouge to unleash a reign of terror

Question 26

Mujahedin

Answer 26

muslim religious warriors

Question 27

Mikhail Gorbachev

Answer 27

energetic new leader that came to power in USSR

Question 28

Glasnost

Answer 28

openness

Question 29

Perestroika

Answer 29

restructuring of the government and economy

Question 30

Lech Walesa

Answer 30

Poland president who led strikes by shipyard workers

Question 31

Solidarity

Answer 31

an independent labor union

Question 32

Vaclav Havel

Answer 32

a dissident writer and human rights activist who was elected president in Czechoslovakia

Question 33

Nicolae Ceaușescu

Answer 33

romania’s longtime dictator that was overthrown and executed because he refused to step down