Space Race
Arms Race
Communism
Red Scare
Cuban Missile Crisis
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What two countries participated in the space race?
Russia and the US
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What drives the citizens of countries to want to be better than others?
Nationalism
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What type of gov't did Soviet Russia have in the Cold War?
A communist gov't
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What type of people did Americans fear during the Red Scare?
immigrants
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how did the Cuban missile crisis start?
Americans found out that there were soviet missiles very close by in Cuba
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Which country got to the moon first?
The US
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which countries were in the arms race?
The U.S and Soviet Russia
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What is another name for a communist?
A leftist
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What were people called who were thought to be communists who worked for Russia?
"Reds"
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What did many people believe would break out?
nuclear war between Russia
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What was the reason for the space race?
To see which country was dominant over the other
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What did the U.S and Soviet Russia develope through the arms race
Nuclear Weapons
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What is the definition of communism?
A system of gov't in which the gov't owns all organizations
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What anti-immigrant group revived during this time?
The K.K.K
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How was the crisis solved?
The Russian gov't agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for the promise that the U.S wouldn't invade Cuba
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What was the name of the first US spaceship that landed on the moon?
Apollo 11
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What is an arms race?
an arms race is the production of military weapons in which countries compete to see who can make the best
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Besides being Communist, what other thing was Soviet Russia ruled by?
totalitarianism
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Who were analyzed and checked to see if they were linked to communism?
federal employees
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Why was tension started between Cuba and the U.S?
Fidel Castro, the Cuban leader aligned himself with the soviets
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What was the name of the Russian's satellite?
Sputnik
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What did the U.S and Soviet Russia have in common
The feeling of wanting to be the most powerful country
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What was the name of the leader of Soviet Russia?
Joseph Stalin
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What was true about Russian spy missions in America?
It had been done before so it raises fear even more
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How far away is Cuba from the state of Florida?
90 miles
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