WH Chapter 23 Test

2. US program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after WWII
3. Where Korea was divided into two nations after WWII
4. The developing nations not allied with either the US or the USSR
6. Vietnamese nationalist and revolutionary leader; he wanted to bring communism to South Vietnam
9. Leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953-1964; he was taken out of office for mishandling the Cuban Missile Crisis
10. A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven Eastern European countries
11. Communist political leader of Cuba; helped overthrow the Cuban government in 1959
12. The boundary separating the Communist nations of Eastern Europe and democratic nations of Western Europe
14. US policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by opponents
16. US tried to stop the spread of communism around the world
17. Chinese general and politician; Leader of the Nationalist party
18. A policy of threatening to go to war in response to any enemy aggression

1. The idea that if a nation falls under Communist control, nearby nations will also fall under Communist control
2. British politician and prime minister; Europe's first woman prime minister
5. Group of Communist guerrillas who fought against the South Vietnamese government in the Vietnam War
7. A defensive military alliance formed in 1949 by ten Western European nations, the US, and Canada
8. An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945
13. In Communist China, a collective farm on which a great number of people work and live together
15. Policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the US under Nixon