Years
When was the first man to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong in 1969
Who is Winston Churchill?
The Prime minister of Great Britain during the second world war.
Korean civil war.
A proxy war between the two superpowers. The US fought for free trade and capitalism, while the Soviets fought for communistic ideologies. This split the nation in two; North- and Southkorea.
Monroe doctrine
The Americas where the their own sphere of interest, which the rest of the world should accept.
The biggest bomb ever
Tsar bomba
When was the Korean war?
1950-53
JFK
President during the Cuban missile crisis.
Space race
The race to the moon.
Good neighbor policy.
How many atomic bombs are still operational today?
13,400
When did the Cold War begin?
1945-50
The Big Three
Winston Churchill, Theodore Roosevelt, Josef Stalin
What was the Cuban missile crisis and when did it occur?
1963: Soviet atomic bombs in Cuba
The big stick policy.
'We have bigger guns than you, so you should listen to what we have to say.'
What connectivity service, which we all make use of today, was invented during the Cold War?
The internet
When was the Vietnam war?
1955-1973
Ronald Reagan.
The toughest enemy of the Soviet Union. president during the 1980's.
Vietnam war
A proxy war between the two superpowers. The US fought for free trade and capitalism, while the Soviets fought for communistic ideologies.
Soviet domestic policy during Stalin's rule.
Isolationist, Stalin wanted to ensure his own power within the union and make sure that the Soviet's industrial capeablilities did not fall far from the western nations.
Who named the conflict the 'Cold War'?
George Orwell
The end of the Cold War end?
1991
Eisenhower
Supported MAD strategy (Mutually Assured Destruction). The plan was set in motion as to make sure that the Soviets did not win. (If I cannot win, then neither can you)
The fall of the Berlin wall.
1989
McCarthyism
Purging the Americans from communism
Project A-119
A plan to blow up the moon to demonstrate the power of atomic bombs.