A foreign policy belief of intervening in areas threatened by the iron curtain with the hopes of stopping the spread of communism and maintaining self-determination.

A foreign policy belief of providing aid, weapons, advisors, and soldiers to countries fighting for freedom or being oppressed/threatened by a foreign power.

A foreign policy belief of providing aid to war torn countries in Europe after WWII with the hopes of preventing the US economy from returning to a "recession".

A foreign policy belief of easing strained relationships with countries like China and the USSR.

An alliance between countries like France, Great Britain, Australia, and the United States that took place during the Cold War.

An alliance between countries like Yugoslavia, Romania, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, and the USSR that took place during the Cold War.

A foreign policy belief that if a country fell to communism it would ignite a chain reaction of communist revolutions in neighboring areas.

A congressional decision granting President Lyndon B. Johnson the power to make war time decisions in Vietnam without a declaration of war.

A 1970s foreign policy belief that countries in Asia threatened by communism would stand up for it themselves but only with aid from the United States

Meaning "restructuring," it describes the beginning of a shift from a command economy to a market economy in the USSR

A foreign policy viewpoint that US adopts in the 1980s where we will support and aid any anti-communist groups and movements around the world, especially in Latin America.

Which of the following is not a proxy conflict during the Cold War?

Stability, security, and equity are all socio-economic goals associated with what major economic system?

Freedom, efficiency, and growth are all socio-economic goals associated with what major economic system?

The alliance between the US and USSR broke apart at the end of WWII. President Truman broke what promise to Josef Stalin and the USSR?

The alliance between the US and USSR broke apart at the end of WWII. Josef Stalin broke which promise to the USA?

Josef Stalin's collection of Eastern European countries that he viewed as satellite nations to protect Russia from future invasion.

This European country was divided (in more ways than one) after WWII and served as a border between NATO and Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War.

A broad term that describes when two countries are indirectly involved in a foreign war.

A Cold War competition between the US and USSR over weapon superiority.

A theory of deterrence, where either country's arsenal was seen as such a threat that it prevented any weapon from being used.

Which of the following countries did NOT fall to Communism during the Cold War?

Which of the following countries did fall to communism during the Cold War?

This European city served as an epicenter of the divide between the free world and the iron curtain.

A Cold War proxy conflict in the 1940s that involved the USSR cutting off all trade and supplies coming into West Berlin. This resulted in a 10-month airlift of humanitarian aid into the city to keep it from falling to Communism.

A Cold War proxy conflict that divided a country along the 38th parallel and established a DMZ to keep the peace.

A Cold War proxy conflict that initially divided a country along the 17th parallel before the entire nation succumbed to Communism in 1975.

A revolutionary that led a communist uprising in the Latin American country of Cuba.

A failed attempt by the US Government to take back the island of Cuba from the hold of communism.

A revolutionary in Vietnam that successfully defeated the French and the United States in the First and Second Indochina Wars.

A physical barrier that separated the West (free world) and the East (Communism) that was put up in the 1960s and lasted until its fall in 1990.

A peace agreement that ends the First Indochina War and creates North (communist) Vietnam and South (republic) Vietnam along the 17th parallel.

The spark that led to the Americanization of the Vietnam War and to the eventual War Powers Act that gives the President of the USA the ability to wage war without Congressional approval.

A guerrilla group in South Vietnam that was loyal to Ho Chi Minh and the North Vietnamese Army (NVA).

A term that describes the escalation of troops in the country of South Vietnam to prevent it from falling to communism.

This was an all out assault in 1968 by NVA and Viet Cong guerrillas that took place on the night of the Vietnamese New Year. The event was a major turning point in the Vietnam War.

A term that describes the gradual withdraw of American troops from Vietnam and the transferring of control to the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN).

Which of the following was NOT a part of the tumultuous year of 1968 that served as a major turning point in the Vietnam War?