Cold War
What is the difference between a "Hot war" and a "Cold war"?
a "Hot war" is a war in which there is actual combat, a "Cold war" is when there is increased tension but not actual combat.
This president made the decision to drop nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Truman
What were some of the reasons that the government gave as to why Homosexual people should not be involved in the U.S. Government?
- Blackmail
- morally inferior
- likely communist
Communism was first popularized by this German philosopher and economist.
Who is Karl Marx
As you can imagine, the project was pretty hush-hush; even this guy didn't know about it until he suddenly became president
Truman
What is "massive retaliatory power"?
retaliating and damaging the other side more than you were damaged.
This President was against bombing China during the Korean War? Why?
Truman didn't want to start another world war.
What was the Executive order # banning homosexuals from the government?
Executive order 10450
This couple was sentenced to death due to the accusation of them communist spies.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Nuclear facilities were built in Oak Ridge, Tennessee & Hanford, Wash. but the main assembly plant was in this New Mexico locale
Los Alamos
The H-Bomb is how many times stronger than the A -Bomb dropped on Hiroshima? (Hint: it's a prime number)
67
Which president encouraged an arms race against the Soviet Union in the 1950s?
Eisenhower
When was this executive order dismissing homosexuals officially repealed?
2017 - Obama
The senator who declared he had lists of government officials who were secret communist spies.
Who is McCarthy?
In 1942 it was my kind of town--for the first controlled nuclear chain reaction
Chicago
What is "brinkmanship"?
When countries bring themselves almost to starting a war against eachother.
Who fired MacArthur in 1951?
Joint Chiefs of Staff under Truman
Dismissals from the military were printed on what color paper?
Blue
MacArthur claimed this group of people were communists.
Who are the Bonus Army?
The "Little Boy" atomic bomb used uranium-235; "Fat Man", this element that was only discovered around 1940
Plutonium
Who proposed the concept of "brinkmanship"?
John Foster Dulles
What was Eisenhower's 1953 speech to the U.N. called?
"Atoms for peace"
When was gay marriage legalized in all US states?
2015
When and what group split from the Chinese Communist Party and relocated to Taiwan?
ROC - 1949
A program chief & a friend of J. Robert Oppenheimer's from Berkeley days, this Nobel Prize winner was played on screen by Josh Hartnett
Ernest Lawrence, physicist and creator of the cyclotron (a particle accelerator)