Term that refers to getting as close to war as possible without actually going to war.
What is brinkmanship?
100
This new weapon was created and was hundreds of more times more damaging than the atomic bomb.
What is the hydrogen bomb?
100
Why did television commercials develop?
What is the cost of producing television shows increased.
100
He gave the checkers speech.
Who is Richard Nixon?
100
This was a military pact that was created by the Soviet Union.
What is the Warsaw Pact.
200
This was a treaty that would allow the United States and the Soviet Union to fly over the other's territory to learn more about its military ability.
What is the open skies treaty?
200
This was a contest between the United States and the Soviet Union where each side was trying to gain a military advantage over the other.
What is the arms race?
200
This invention had the result of making electronics smaller.
What is the transistor?
200
He became the leader of the Soviet Union when Stalin died.
Who is Nikita Khruschev?
200
This was the idea that if one country fell to communism, its neighbors would soon follow.
What is domino theory?
300
This said the United States would aid any nation in the Middle East trying to resist communism.
What is the Eisenhower Doctrine?
300
This was the first ever artificial satellite that was launched by the Soviet Union.
What is sputnik?
300
This was the name of the first commercial computer.
What is UNIVAC?
300
He was the leader of the communist party in Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
300
After the launching of sputnik, this act was passed to provide millions of dollars for education in the United States, especially in math and science.
What is the National Defense Education Act?
400
The United States and its anti-Communist allies created this organization to work together to resist Communist aggression. They supported the creation of an anti-Communist government in South Vietnam.
What is SEATO? (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)
400
These were missiles that could carry nuclear weapons and travel thousands of miles and strike very close to their intended target.
What is ICBM's? Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles
400
These were the forerunners to the hippies of the 1960's.
What are the beatniks?
400
He developed the polio vaccine.
Who is Jonas Salk?
400
Fidel Castro overthrew this corrupt leader of Cuba.
Who is Fulgencio Bastista?
500
He seized the Suez Canal and almost started a war.
Who is Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt?
500
This organization was created to help educate and prepare the public for nuclear emergencies.
What is the Federal Civil Defense Agency?
500
This was the most famous of the new suburban communities. These houses were mass produced and looked alike.
What is Levittown?
500
He discovered penicillin.
Who is Alexander Fleming?
500
He called America the affluent society and criticized America for being overly focused on its own wealth.