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This is a type of conflict in which two opposing sides of a war are supported by other nations who provide soldiers, equipment, and training.
What is a Proxy War?
Competition between the USA and the USSR over exploration and research beyond the Earth.
What is the Space Race?
The US policy in which it would go to the very edge of war in order to get the USSR to back down.
What is Brinkmanship?
The US policy in the 1970s of lowering tensions between the USA and the USSR.
What is Detente?
This was the name of the last Soviet leader.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev (Gorbachev)?
The Korean War began when North Korean forces crossed this line.
What is the 38th Parallel?
The name of the first satellite in space.
What is Sputnik?
A policy of both the USSR and the USA in which both sides warned that if the other launched a nuclear they would retaliate with their entire nuclear arsenal.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
The communist leader of Cuba, lead a successful revolt against the US-backed Cuban government.
Who is Fidel Castro (Castro)?
In November 1989, this symbol of the Iron Curtain was torn down.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the leader of North Vietnam.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
The name of the first successful moon landing.
What is Apollo 11?
These types of missiles could launch long range nuclear warheads.
What is Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles? (ICBMs)
The deteriorating relationship between the USSR and this nation led to more open communication and a reduction in tension between the US and the USSR
What is China?
The Soviet policy in the 1980s in which the Soviet government loosened its control of the economy.
What is Perestroika?
In this year, the Soviet Union rolled tanks into Afghanistan in order to quash an anti-communist uprising.
What is 1979?
The president who vowed the USA would land a man on the moon before 1970.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This treaty, signed by President Nixon and Soviet Premier Brezhnev limited the number of ICBMs each country would have.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT)?
The Truman Doctrine was created in response to Soviet pressure on these two nations.
What is Turkey and Greece?
Nickname given to the USSR by President Ronald Reagan.
What is the "Evil Empire"?
Leader of the South Vietnam who was assassinated.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
Ronald Reagan's satellite defense program. (Not the nickname)
What is Strategic Defense Initiative? (SDI)
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!:
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
This was the year in which the USSR officially disbanded and dissolved .
What is 1991?