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What is the Marshall Plan
This post war recovery plan provided financial assistance to European.
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What is 1911
The Qing Dynasty fell on this year
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What is the 38th Parallel
North and South Korea were separated at this geographical marking spot
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What is 1961
The Berlin Wall was constructed in this year
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Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
He was the Soviet premier who introduced reforms to restructure and open Soviet economics and society
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What is the Truman Doctrine
Named after the president who enacted it, the goal of this doctrine was to contain communism and stop its spread to other countries.
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Who is Chiang Kai-shek
He was the Nationalist leader after the fall of the Qing
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What is the 17th Parallel
North and South Vietnam were separated at this geographical marking spot
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What is 1989
The Berlin Wall fell in this year
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What is Perestroika
Soviet policy focusing on restructuring a transition from communist to socialist economics and allowing for small scale economics
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What is the Domino Theory
This theory stated that if one nation were to fall to communism then bordering nations would do the same
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Who is Mao Zedong
He was the Communist leader in China after the fall of the Qing
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Who is Ho Chi Minh
He attempted unite Vietnam into one nation
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Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
He was the Soviet Premier when the wall fell
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What is Glasnost
Soviet policy focusing on social openness including freedom of press, speech, and assembly
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What is the Yalta Conference
Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, and Joseph Stalin met at this conference in February, 1945
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What is Taiwan
The Nationalists fled to this island after the communists took control of mainland China
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What is the Viet Cong
This was the name given to the communist sympathizers in South Vietnam who fought against the US through guerrilla warfare
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What is Iron Curtain
The Soviet sector of Germany was the beginning of this term, coined by Winston Churchill
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What is a Bear
In political cartoons, Russia is usually depicted as this
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What is Secretary of State
George Marshall held this position in the United States when his plan for European post war recovery was put in place.
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What is 1950
In what year did the Chinese communists gain control of the Chinese mainland
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What is Dien Bien Phu
This is the site where the French were defeated by the Vietnamese bringing an end to French occupation of Vietnam
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Who are the United States, France, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union (USSR or Russia)
Name the four countries who occupied post-war Germany
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Who is Boris Yeltsin
He was the Soviet premier when the Cold War ended
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