Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. in 1950.
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
This was the country that had the first man in space.
What is the U.S.S.R.?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for Communists in the U.S.
What is the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
This was the country the U.S. saw as its biggest competition.
What is the USSR?
This is the location where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947.
What is Sputnik?
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
This major conflict led to the U.S. flying in food, fuel, and other supplies to bypass a blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This doctrine was instilled to fight Communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
These were thought to work as a deterrent to stop the U.S.S.R from attacking the U.S.
What are Nuclear Weapons?
This was the first man to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
This was the most important difference between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R and the cause of most conflicts.
What is Democracy v. Communism (Ideological)?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against Communism can be labeled forms of this.
What is Containment?
This was the year the Soviet Union became an atomic power in the world.
What is 1949?
President of the United States when man landed on the moon in 1969.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's space program.
What is NASA?
The Cold War started in ___ and ended in ___.
What is 1945-1989?
This was a bullying tactic utilized by a U.S. Senator to "weed out" Communists in the country.
What is McCarthyism?
This was the official name given to the secret program to develop nuclear weapons during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety. This agency oversaw the Bay of Pigs Operation.
What is Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?