Cold War Flashpoints Outside Europe 1945 - 1975

Identify the country which was not originally part of French Indochina

• North Vietnam

• Burma

• Laos

• Cambodia

Which country was split into North & South by the 38th Parallel

• Vietnam

• Germany

• Korea

• China

Identify three countries which were involved in the Korean War

• USA

• North Korea

• Taiwan

• China

• North Vietnam

Identify the role the USSR did not employ in the Korean War

• Provided weapons for the North Koreans

• Provided pilots to fly Russian planes in North Korean markings

• Provided ground troops to assist the North Koreans in combat

• Provided advisers for the North Koreans

President Truman feared the (a)   theory would result in all of East Asia falling to communism

Identify the failed policy pushed by General Douglas MacArthur during the autumn of 1950

• Rollback

• Containment

• Blitzkrieg

• Trench Warfare

Which policy did President Kennedy adopt in reaction to discovery of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba

• An invasion of Cuba

• Air attacks on Cuban missile bases

• A naval blockade of Cuba

• A nuclear attack on Cuba

How did the Americans discover the Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962?

• Spy satellites

• U2 spy plane

• CIA personnel in Cuba

• Castro boasted about them

Check two words which describe the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Standoff

• Business as usual

• Diplomacy

• Brinkmanship

Identify a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Telephone Hotline

• Partial Test Ban Treaty

• Accelerated arms race

• All of the other three