Chapter 31: The Cold War Review

tactic used to overcome a Soviet blockade

• Berlin Airlift

• arms race

• Cuban missile crisis

• COMECON

• Great Leap Forward

leader of the Communist Party in Vietnam

• Cuban missile crisis

• COMECON

• arms race

• Great Leap Forward

• Ho Chi Minh

another name for the Marshall Plan

• Cuban missile crisis

• Great Leap Forward

• COMECON

• arms race

• European Recovery Program

Soviet-based economic assistance program for Eastern European states

• COMECON

• Cuban missile crisis

• Ho Chi Minh

• arms race

• Great Leap Forward

strategy that built up the United States's and the Soviet Union's nuclear arsenals

• Great Leap Forward

• COMECON

• Ho Chi Minh

• arms race

• Cuban missile crisis

Chinese Communist leader

• Mao Zedong

• arms race

• COMECON

• Great Leap Forward

• Cuban missile crisis

Chinese Communists' economic program

• arms race

• Great Leap Forward

• Cuban missile crisis

• COMECON

• Ho Chi Minh

confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union that came close to starting a nuclear war

• arms race

• Cuban missile crisis

• Ho Chi Minh

• COMECON

• Great Leap Forward

Chinese Nationalist Leader

• arms race

• Cuban missile crisis

• Ho Chi Minh

• COMECON

• Chiang Lai-shek

mutual agreement among Western, Eastern, and Asian powers to divide Vietnam into two territories

• Cuban missile crisis

• COMECON

• arms race

• Geneva Peace Accords

• Great Leap Forward