The Cold War

Vietnam Latin America

Eastern Europe

The Nuclear Era

Afghanistan

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Responding to the defeat of the French by the Vietminh at Dien bien phu, U.S. President Eisenhower outlined the _______Theory:

"You have a row of ________ set up. You knock over the first one, and what will

happen to the last one is the certainty that it will

go over very quickly."

Domino Theory

dominoes

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The ________ invasion of Afghanistan was a decade long war which wreaked incredible havoc and

destruction.

Soviet

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This term refers to preventative measures that are taken to avoid an

increase in the circulation and distribution of nuclear weapons?

Non-proliferation

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Ernesto Guevara commonly known as__________, was an Argentine-born

Marxist revolutionary and Cuban guerrilla leader. Guevara was a member of Fidel Castro's "26th of July Movement", which

seized power in Cuba in 1959

Che Guevara

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The ________were finally defeated at Dien Bien Phu on the

8th of May 1954 by the communist general Vo Nguyen Giap.

French

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French Indo-China 1908

September 10,1939

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________was the code name for the non-stop, but often interrupted bombing raids in North Vietnam conducted by the United States

armed forces during the Vietnam War.

Operation Rolling Thunder

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__________was president of Guatemala from 1951 to 1954, when

he was ousted in a coup d‘etat organized by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and was

replaced by a military junta headed by Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas.

Jacobo Arbenz

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In the early 1950's the Guatemalan government engaged in land reform or___________. The program proposed by Arbenz was to remedy the extremely unequal land distribution within the country.

nationalization

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_________________was head of the military government that

ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. He came to power in a violent coup that deposed Salvador

Allende, who had become the first Socialist to be elected

president of Chile.

General Augusto Pinochet

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What does ABM stand for?

Anti-Ballistic Missile

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_____________ is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President

of the Czech Republic.

Václav Havel

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When was the Berlin Wall constructed?

At 2 a.m. on Aug. 13, 1961, a low, barbed-wire barrier was strung between East and West Berlin. It effectively divided the city in half. Within days, workers cemented concrete blocks into a low wall through the city.

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Approximately how many languages are spoken in

Canada?

Los Alamos (USA) and

Kazakhstan (USSR)

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First Lightning – The first Soviet nuclear test .

The war started in late (Dec.)______. Soviet troops ultimately withdrew

from the area between May 15, 1988 and February 2, 1989. The Soviet

Union officially announced that all of its troops had left Afghanistan on

February 15.

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1979-1989

Born Nguyen Sinh Cung , ________ led the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from 1945-69. He embraced communism while living abroad in England and France from 1915-23; in 1919, he

petitioned the powers at the Versailles peace talks for equal rights in Indochina. He later moved to Hong Kong, where he

founded the Indochinese Communist Party.

Ho Chi MinhAfter adopting the name Ho Chi Minh, or "He Who Enlightens," he returned to Vietnam in

1941 and declared the nation's independence from France. Ho led a nearly continuous war against the French and, later, the Americans

until his death in 1969.

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During the late 1980’s the Communist Dictatorship in Romania was led by?

Ceausescu’s domestic rule was marked by frequently disastrous economic schemes and became increasingly repressive and corrupt. In December, 1989, a popular uprising, joined by the army, led to the

arrest and execution of him and his wife,

Elena.

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Nicolae Ceausescu

On December 8, 1991, the leaders of the Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian republics met to issue a declaration that the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced by the____________________. Gorbachev became president without a country. On December 25, 1991, he resigned as president of the USSR and

turned the powers of his office over to Boris Yeltsin. The next day, the Supreme Soviet voted to dissolve itself and repealed the declaration written in

1922 that had officially established the USSR. By the end of the year, all official Soviet institutions had ceased operations.

Commonwealth of Independent States

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The acronym used to describe negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union that

were aimed at reducing those two countries' arsenals of

nuclear warheads and of the missiles and bombers capable of

delivering such weapons. ?

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Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START)

(1982–83, 1985–91)

This intelligence organization invested US$2.1 billion over a 10-year period to create an anti-Soviet resistance.

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The Central Intelligence Agency

(CIA)

USA

A name used to describe the group of people that fought against the Soviet

backed Afghan government?

Mujahideen

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What do SALT I & II stand for?

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

1972 & 1979

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The _____________ was a network of roads built from North Vietnam to South Vietnam through the neighbouring countries of Laos

and Cambodia to provide logistical support to the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese Army during the Vietnam War. It was a

combination of truck routes and paths for foot and bicycle traffic.

Ho Chi Minh trail

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The Six Nations Confederacy

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The island nation of __________was invaded by the military forces of the United States and several

other Caribbean nations on Oct. 25, 1983. This was attempt to control the

spread of communism in the western hemisphere.

Grenada

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What are the following three acronyms ?

•FRG•NORAD•USSR

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Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)

North American Air Defence (NORAD)

Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)

What event does the image below refer to?

On the 26th April 1986, reactor # 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station, 100 km north from Kiev, blew up during a routine

daily operation. Nearly nine tons of radioactive material - 90 times as much as the Hiroshima bomb - were hurled into the sky. Winds over the following days, mostly blowing north and west, carried, fallout into Belarus, as well as Russia, Poland and the

Baltic region.

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A wealthy Saudi named _____________was a prominent

mujahideen organizer and financier; his Maktab al-Khadamat (MAK) (Office of Services) funnelled money, arms, and

Muslim fighters from around the world into Afghanistan, with the assistance and

support of the American, Pakistani, and Saudi governments.

Osama bin Laden

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