Vocabulary
Early Cold War
The Space Race
Mid-Late Cold War
Potpourri
100
To seal off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
What is a blockade?
100
The safety saying that school children were taught in the early parts of the Cold War in case a nuclear weapon was detonated.
What is duck and cover?
100

Neil Armstrong 

Who wwas the first man to land on the moon?

100
This country underwent a Communist revolution in 1959.
What is Cuba?
100

What was the significant physical barrier that was erected between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a physical symbol of the cold war?

Berlin Wall

200

What is the economic system that is based on private ownership of property & competition between businesses is driven by the needs of the market, consumers & producers?

Capitalism

200

What side of Germany was communist during the cold war? 

East Germany/Berlin (communist)

200

What country was the first out of Earth's atmosphere in Sputnik I to become the first in outer space?

Soviets

200

Cuban Communist dictator during Cold War?

Fidel Castro 

200

Who became one of the youngest Presidents of the United States in 1960 and was assassinated 3 years later?

John F Kennedy

300
A prisoner of war
What is a POW?
300
This began in 1949 when the USSR tested their first atomic bomb.
What is the nuclear arms race?
300
He became the first person to make it into space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin a Soviet?
300
The name given to the time period when the USSR put up nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
One of the big reasons the Korean War did not end in 1951 dealt with the treatment of this group.
Who were POWs?
400
The short name for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which had the aim of stopping the spread of communism.
What is NATO?
400
This U.S. senator headed committees to investigate the spread of communism in the U.S.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
400

He was the first person to walk on the moon.

Who was Neal Armstrong?

400

What was the US military/CIA operation with the mission to assassinate Castro in 1961?

The Bay of Pigs Invasion

400

What country was in control of entire peninsula of Indochina (includes Vietnam)during Cold War?

France

500

What is the economic system, adopted & spread by the Soviet Union before and during the Cold War, grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government?

Communism

500
This was the name given to the fear of communism that spread throughout the U.S. where many people were investigated for suspicion of Communist ties.
What is the "Red Scare?"
500
The types of animals sent into space by the Soviets and the Americans?
What were dogs (Soviets) and chimps (Americans)?
500

Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War?

1945 - 1991 (allow +/-2)

500

During "Operation Rolling Thunder" what was the jellied gasoline called that was dropped in large canisters and exploded on impact in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia?

napalm

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