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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 Back to Game Board
The ________ invasion of Afghanistan was a decade long war which wreaked incredible havoc and destruction.
Soviet Back to Game Board
This term refers to preventative measures that are taken to avoid an increase in the circulation and distribution of nuclear weapons?
Non-proliferation Back to Game Board
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 Back to Game Board
The ________were finally defeated at Dien Bien Phu on the 8th of May 1954 by the communist general Vo Nguyen Giap.
French French Indo-China 1908 Back to Game
September 10,1939 Back to Game
________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 Back to Game
__________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 Back to Game
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 Back to Game
_________________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 Back to Game
Anti-Ballistic Missile Back to Game
_____________ is a Czech writer and dramatist. He was the last President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic.
Václav Havel Back to Game
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. Back to Game
Los Alamos (USA) and Kazakhstan (USSR) Back to Game 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.
1979-1989 Back to Game
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. Back to Game
During the late 1980’s the Communist Dictatorship in Romania was led by?
Nicolae Ceausescu 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. Back to Game
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 Back to Game
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.?
Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) (1982–83, 1985–91) Back to Game
This intelligence organization invested US$2.1 billion over a 10-year period to create an anti-Soviet resistance.
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) USA Back to Game
A name used to describe the group of people that fought against the Soviet backed Afghan government?
Mujahideen Back to Game
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks 1972 & 1979 Back to Game
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 Back to Game
The Six Nations Confederacy Back to Game
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 Back to Game
