Cold War Flashpoints Outside Europe 1945 - 1975

Identify the country which was not originally part of French Indochina

• North Vietnam

• Burma

• Laos

• Cambodia

Which country was split into North & South by the 38th Parallel

• Vietnam

• Germany

• Korea

• China

Identify three countries which were involved in the Korean War

• USA

• North Korea

• Taiwan

• China

• North Vietnam

Identify the role the USSR did not employ in the Korean War

• Provided weapons for the North Koreans

• Provided pilots to fly Russian planes in North Korean markings

• Provided ground troops to assist the North Koreans in combat

• Provided advisers for the North Koreans

President Truman feared the ________________ theory would result in all of East Asia falling to communism

Identify the failed policy pushed by General Douglas MacArthur during the autumn of 1950

• Rollback

• Containment

• Blitzkrieg

• Trench Warfare

Which policy did President Kennedy adopt in reaction to discovery of Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba

• An invasion of Cuba

• Air attacks on Cuban missile bases

• A naval blockade of Cuba

• A nuclear attack on Cuba

How did the Americans discover the Russian nuclear missiles in Cuba in October 1962?

• Spy satellites

• U2 spy plane

• CIA personnel in Cuba

• Castro boasted about them

Check two words which describe the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Standoff

• Business as usual

• Diplomacy

• Brinkmanship

Identify a consequence of the Cuban Missile Crisis

• Telephone Hotline

• Partial Test Ban Treaty

• Accelerated arms race

• All of the other three