This was a project that specialized in the making of the first atomic bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
100
America, Balkans, Berlin, Britain, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Europe, Holland, Italy, USSR, West Berlin, West Germany, Yugoslavia, Soviet Union and East Berlin.
What were the countries and cities involved in the Cold War?
100
This was signed on April 4th, 1949. It was founded in Washington DC and it's headquarters are located in Brussels, Germany. France, Denmark, Italy, USA and the United Kingdom are among the countries credited for founding this. It is also known as the North Atlantic Treaty.
What is NATO?
100
This young Cuban nationalist overthrew General Fulgencio Batista on January 1st, 1959. In April of 1961, American sent a full-scale invasion of 1400 American-trained Cubans to attempt to throw the nationalist from power. The invasion did not go as planned and they lost in less than 24 hours. Name the nationalist and the event described.
Who is Fidel Castro and what is the Bay of Pigs?
100
This was a meeting that took place in a Russian resort town called Crimea from February 4th to 11th, 1945. The meeting was between Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Roosevelt early as WW2 ended.
What is the Yalta Conference?
200
The military alliance of Communist nations in Eastern Europe in 1955.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
200
This type of government is a system in which a country's trade and industry is controlled by private authority. West Germany, USA, Britain and Holland are or were under this type of government.
What is Capitalism?
200
This was a doctrine of military use and national security policy in which a full-scale use of high-yield weapons of mass destruction by 2 or more opposing sides would cause destruction of the attacker/defender.
What is MAD?
200
This type of warfare is defined as 'pushing dangerous events to the brink of disaster in order to achieve the most advantageous outcome. It was used during the Cold War by the Allies and the Soviet Union.
What is Brinkmanship?
200
This war began in 1950 and was fought between the United Nations' military force and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The northern part of this country wanted to end the independence of the southern part.
What is the Korean War?
300
The American initiative to aid Europe by giving the country $18 million to rebuild their economy.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This type of government is derived from a political theory of Karl Marx. All property is owned publicly. Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union all used or use this form of government.
What is the Communist party?
300
This Nixon/Soviet general secretary signed ABM treaty and interim agreement in 1972 in Moscow. This was the first time during the Cold War that the US and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their ascends.
What is SALT?
300
Described as one of the most "hottest" periods during the Cold War. It was a confrontation between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of nuclear threat because of missile sites in Cuba.
What is The Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
This is the action, state, or period of occupying or being occupied by a military force.
What is Occupation?
400
The US foreign policy doctrine that was adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.
What is the Containment Policy?
400
In this system of government, the power is vested in the people. During the Cold War, West Germany, Italy, Britain and America all used it.
What is Democracy?
400
This was an international crisis during 1948-49 in which the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
This was the ideological conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WW2 in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991.
What is the Iron Curtain?
400
The Cold War was often threatened to become a nuclear war. The super power country of the US was part of The United Nations (the mission to preserve world peace) and was involved in this incident when a US plane was shot down in Soviet Airspace, trying to capture images of nuclear weapons.
What is the U2 Incident?
500
The 1945 meeting in this place in Germany. The Big 3 (Joseph Stalin, Winston Churchill and Harry Truman) met to negotiate the terms for the end of WW2.
What is the Potsdam Conference?
500
These three were political leaders during the Cold War. They all served the same country. One served from 1961 to 1965. Another from 1969 to 1974. The last from 1981 to 1989.
Who is JFK, Nixon and Reagan?
500
This was a physical blockade in a certain city in the separated country of Germany. It was built by the GDR to keep "fascists" from entering their part of Germany.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
This was one of the main causes that began the Cold War in 1945 between the Soviet Union and the United States.
What is the Arms Race?
500
This is the line separating 2 countries that used to be one. One part is communist backed and the other is an anti-communist republic.