Countries
This European nation was divided immediately after WWII and was later reunited in 1990.
What is Germany?
Dictator of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
Astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins were a part of this mission.
What is Apollo 11?
Underground area to keep safe during atomic threats
What is a bomb shelter?
This multinational military organization was created for the purpose of mutual defense and collective security for the western nations.
What is NATO?
When Communist troops from the northern part of this country attacked the southern part of this country (which was democratic), the US and UN troops intervened.
What is Korea?
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neil Armstrong?
First satellite to orbit Earth.
What it Sputnik I
The fact that the nuclear weapons that were being created by the US and the Soviet Union were extremely powerful and dangerous made the ______ so terrifying.
What is the Arms Race?
A system that was set up to assist Veterans financially with: education, training, buying homes, and starting businesses
What is the G.I. Bill?
The country that was trying to contain communism.
What is the U.S.?
Hungarian rebels tried to break free from Soviet control in 1956 but they were stopped by this Hungarian communist dictator.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Guerilla warfare tactics, which had never been seen before.
What is Vietnam War?
Churchill used this phrase to refer to Eastern Europe being under the control of the Soviet Union.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This plan gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
This European country occupied Vietnam for decades and tried to regain control of this country after WWII.
What is France?
President requested Gorbachev to tear down Berlin Wall.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This event saw the United States and other European nations bring food and supplies to a German city when the Soviets blocked ground transportation to that city.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The competition between nations regarding achievements in the field of new technology, especially the building of space craft and rocket ships?
What is the Space Race?
In response to NATO, the Soviet Union created their own international military organization to counteract what the US and other western nations were doing during the Cold War.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The communist country that U.S. was most afraid of during the Cold War.
What is the USSR or the Soviet Union or Russia?
This Soviet Union leader introduced "glasnost" and "perestroika" and reformed the government and economy of the country and helped to end Communism there.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The time it took the Soviets to remove missiles from Cuba.
What are 4 days?
The line between North Korea and South Korea is called ___________. It is also the location of the DMZ (demilitarized zone).
What is the 38th parallel?
The program created during the 1950s that helped working moms.
Name the German city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
His five-year plan was a complete disaster and many people in Eastern Europe started to wonder if Communism would actually work.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
This war ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
The Truman Doctrine and the policy of ______established the strategy of keeping communism within its existing borders.
Containment
Theory that if one nation falls, its neighbors will fall.
What is Domino Theory?