Cold War

What was one way

that the Soviet Union attempted to influence the politics of Africa? (7-5.3)

• It provided the weapons needed to gain revenge on European colonists

• It destroyed African nations that were democratic

• It offered Africans scholarships to study in the Soviet Union

• It offered African governments membership into the Warsaw Pact

This was the U.S. foreign policy adopted by President Harry Truman in the late 1940s, in which the United States tried to stop the spread of communism by creating alliances and helping weak countries to resist Soviet advances.

• Appeasement

• Containment

• Scorched Earth

• Operation Market Garden

Name the theory that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control

• Continuation Theory

• Inundation Theory

• Domino Theory

• Roadblock Theory

This was a Cuban socialist leader who overthrew a dictator in 1959 and established a communist state in Cuba.

• Noriega

• Fidel Castro

• Che Guevara

• Manny Hernandez

Leader of the Communist Party in China that overthrew the Nationalists and established China as the People's Republic of China and ruled from 1949 until 1976.

• Benito Mussolini

• Mao Zedong

• Fidel Castro

• Ho Chi Minh

Communist nations in Eastern Europe on friendly terms with the USSR and thought of as under the USSR's control.

• Communist Manifesto

• Democratic Republic Alliance

• Satellite Nations

• Iron Curtain

A political barrier that isolated the peoples of Eastern Europe after WWII, restricting their ability to travel outside the region

• The Berlin Wall

• The Soviet Blockade

• The Politburo

• Iron Curtain

Name the structure separating East and West Berlin built by East Germany in 1961 to keep citizens from escaping to the West.

• Berlin Wall

• The Deutche Wall

• Iron Curtain

• Communist Bloc

Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam used guerrilla warfare to fight anti-communists during the 1950's and 1960's?

• Mao Zedong

• Ho Chi Minh

• Sun Yat-Sen

• Fidel Castro

What was a group of Communist guerrillas who, with the help of North Vietnam, fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War?

• The Red Guard

• The Red Army

• Vietcong

• Sandinista