Proxy Wars and Global Conflicts

Front

The _______ and _______ race saw the US and USSR competing for atomic superiority.

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Cold War and Space Race

Front

_____________ wars are indirect conflicts in which the US and USSR support different sides but do not directly fight one another.

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Proxy Wars

Front

The ___________ War was a conflict that started between communist N. Korea and S. Korea in 1950, but soon became a proxy war between the USSR and the United States.

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Korean War

Front

_________ experienced a revolution in which a US-friendly dictator Batista was overthrown by Fidel Castro and communist backed forces.

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Cuba

Front

The___________ ___________Invasion was a CIA-assisted counter revolution that was an epic failure for the US and JFK.

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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Front

In the fall of __________ , the USSR began assembling missile sites and nuclear weapons in Cuba. Not good.

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1962

Front

JFK and ______________, thankfully, avert the crisis diplomatically at the last possible second.

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Khrushchev

Front

__________ had been a French colony prior to WWII. It will seek independence, like much of the world, after the war.

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Vietnam

Front

The Vietnam War was a conflict between the communist regime of _________ Vietnam and Viet Cong and the anti-Communist _________ Vietnam and its ally, the US.

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North Vietnam and South Vietnam

Front

Between 1968-73 there is a push to end the war diplomatically which ultimately leads to US withdrawal in ________

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1973