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Cold War Quiz
 * 1) Who were the three leaders at Potsdam?
 * 2) What did the Potsdam conference convince the American President to do?
 * 3) The term for the belief that business and industry should make a profit for the owner.
 * 4) The term for the belief that everyone should share in the profits of industry and business and that governments should control all business and industry
 * 5) The term for a time period when the relationship between USA and USSR was very confrontational
 * 6) What are the years of this time period?
 * 7) A term for an invisible line dividing Europe between communist and non-communist countries
 * 8) Who made up (coined) this term?
 * 9) What was the plan to help Europe financially but also requiring countries to buy from the US?
 * 10) What was the name of the military group organized by the western allied countries and the name of the military group set up by USSR in response?
 * 11) What was the statement made by the President of the United States that the USA was going to keep communism out of other countries?
 * 12) When was this statement made?
 * 13) Where is the United Nations headquarters?
 * 14) What group in the United Nations has only 15 members and decides what to do if world peace is threatened?
 * 15) What five countries are permanent members of this group?
 * 16) What country was ignored and another place (island) was in its place?
 * 17) What years did the Berlin Airlift take place?
 * 18) Why did the Berlin Airlift have to take place?
 * 19) What was the result of the Berlin Airlift?
 * 20) When was the Berlin Wall built?
 * 21) Who was the American President at the time?
 * 22) Who was the leader of the USSR at this time?
 * 23) Who was the leader of communist China?
 * 24) When did he take control of China?
 * 25) Who was the leader of the Nationalists in China?
 * 26) What island did the Nationalists escape to?
 * 27) What country recognized the communist controlled China as the real China in 1970?
 * 28) What two countries occupied Korea?
 * 29) What were the years of the Korean War?
 * 30) Why was the United States able to get the support of the United Nations for the war?
 * 31) Who was the General in charge of the United Nations forces?
 * 32) How many countries supported the UN in Korea?
 * 33) What brought the Chinese into the Korean War?
 * 34) Why did the American President fire the commanding General?
 * 35) Why is the situation in Korea the longest truce in History?
 * 36) When was the Cuban revolution, the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
 * 37) Who was the Cuban leader and his famous “advisor”?
 * 38) Who were the two Presidents over this time period?
 * 39) What did the US do in order to prevent nuclear missiles from being put in Cuba?
 * 40) Who was the Soviet leader and what happened to him?
 * 41) Why did the US put on a trade embargo on Cuba originally?
 * 42) Who is Ho Chi Minh?
 * 43) When and why was Vietnam divided at the 17th parallel and what was required in the future?
 * 44) Why did the US get involved? How long were they there?
 * 45) What happened to Diem?
 * 46) What does “containment” mean?
 * 47) What is the meaning of “the Domino theory”?
 * 48) What caused the Americans to withdraw?
 * 49) What does “détente” mean?
 * 50) Why is Afghanistan called USSR’s Vietnam?