Transcript Cold War Review #2

The Cold War
Vietnam
Latin America
Eastern Europe
The Nuclear
Era
Afghanistan
100
100
100
100
100
200
200
200
200
200
300
300
300
300
300
400
400
400
400
400
500
500
500
500
500
Back to Game Board
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
What does ABM stand for?
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
When was the Berlin
Wall constructed?
At 2 a.m. on Aug. 13, 1961, a low, barbedwire 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
Approximately how many languages
are spoken in Canada?
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 Minh
After 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
What do SALT I & II stand for?
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
What are the following
three acronyms ?
•FRG
•NORAD
•USSR
Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)
North American Air Defence (NORAD)
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
Back to Game
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.
Back to Game
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
Back to Game