Russians
Americans
Cold War Events
You can't yell bomb on an airplane
Cold War Songs
100
Leader of the Soviet Union during WWII
Who is Joseph Stalin
100
President that came up with the doctrine of aiding anyone who was trying to resist communism
Who is Harry Truman
100
Start of the Cold War. The big three meet and discuss postwar Europe
What is the Yalta Conference
100
First ever satellite to orbit the earth. Sent up by the Soviets.
What is Sputnik
100
Billy Joel lists off SOOO many events from the Cold War
What is "We didn't start the fire"
200
Leader of the Soviet Union when it fell in 1991.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev
200
President who threatened the use of "Massive Retaliation"
Who is Eisenhower
200
U.S. and British Plan to bypass a Soviet Blockade of West Berlin
What is the Berlin Air Lift
200
Competition between US and Soviet Union to see who could build bigger and better weapons.
What is the arms race
200
Song from the 80's, Jay-Z recently covered this. Also, from Napoleon Dynamite
What is "Forever Young"
300
First man sent into space
Who is Yuri Gagarin
300
President during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is John F. Kennedy
300
Failed invasion of Cuba
What is Bay of Pigs Invasion
300
Nuclear weapons that can be sent to another "continent"
What is an ICBM
300
The Scorpions. Written right after the fall of the Berlin Wall
What is "Wind of Change"
400
Current President of Russia. Former KGB
Who is Vladimir Putin
400
President who initially sent troops to Vietnam
What is Lyndon Johnson
400
Soviet war starting in 1979. 10 year failure (comparable to the Vietnam War). Later the Taliban set up here.
What is Afghanistan
400
Leader of Cuba, wanted to nuke America
Who is Fidel Castro
400
By Nena. In both Russian and English. Song about many of these childhood party favorites
What is 99 Luftballoons
500
Leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis
Who is Nikita Krushchev
500
U2 Pilot shot down over Moscow
Who Gary Powers
500
Allowance of free enterprise into the Soviet Union
What is Perestroika
500
Agreement between the US and Soviets to limit nuclear weapons
What is SALT
500
By the Beatles. Contrasts the US and the Soviet Union
What is Back in the USSR
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