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What is the United Nations?
On October 24, 1945, this organization was replaced by the ineffective League of Nations.
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What is the Marshall Plan?
The plan offered by George C. Marshall, the U.S. secretary of state at the time, which provided aid to Western Europe to help rebuild it.
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What is the Korean War?
This war began on June 25, 1950 when 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean army poured across the 38th parallel.
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What is the U.S.A?
The name of the country who tried to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
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What is Brezhnev Doctrine?
The name of the policy which affirmed the Soviet Union the right to intervene in the affairs of East Bloc countries in order to preserve Communist rule.
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What is the Yalta Conference?
This was the second wartime meeting of Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt where the leaders agreed to require Germany's unconditional surrender.
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What is the Truman Doctrine?
Which policy aimed at containing communism of countries already under Soviet control.
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What is Sputnik?
The Soviet Union launched this on October 4, 1957 marking the beginning of the space race?
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What is the U.S.S.R?
The name of the country that built the Berlin Wall.
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What is military support and training?
The kind of assistance Vietnam received from the U.S. during the Kennedy Administration.
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What is the Potsdam Conference?
In 1945, at this conference the Allies divided "occupation zone Germany" into four zones.
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What is the U.S.S.R. drops the atomic bomb?
The major turning point in weaponry which was sparked by information reported by U.S.S.R. spies.
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What is the Suez Crisis?
The name of the invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel.
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What is the U.S.?
The name of the country whos U2 spy plane got shot down and tried to cover it up during the Cold War.
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What is Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland?
The four Warsaw Pact nations invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968.
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What is the Potsdam Conference?
At this conference the organization Council of Foreign Ministers finally agreed.
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What is the Berlin airlift?
Organized by the Western powers this carried supplies to western Berlin.
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What is the Warsaw Pact?
The name of the defense treaty formed by the Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites on May 14, 1955.
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Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident in Vietnam?
This is where the U.S. destroyer, Maddox, exchange shots with North Vietnamese torpedo boats on August 2, 1964.
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