History Vocab: Quiz 10

Korean War

a fight between North and South Korea

Viet Cong

South Vietnamese communists who fought against the South Vietnamese government.

Vietnamization

a strategy to reduce U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War by transferring military responsibilities to South Vietnam.

Domino Theory

the idea that if one country became communist, others around it would, too.

Killing Fields

in Cambodia where large numbers of people were killed and buried during the Khmer Rouge regime.

Bay of pigs invasion

It was a failed invasion where Cuban exiles tried to overthrow Castro in Cuba.

Cuban missile crisis

It was a face-off between the US and the Soviet Union about Soviet missiles in Cuba.

Prague Spring

a period of political liberalization and reform in Czechoslovakia

Detente

a period of eased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Strategic Arms Limitations treaty (SALT)

agreements between the US and the Soviet Union to limit nuclear weapons.

Perestroika

economic reforms introduced in the Soviet Union

Glasnost

Soviet Union being more open and transparent with the government.