Space Race
Who put the first landing craft on the moon?
Soviets
The name of the first Russian satellite
Sputnick
True/False
Gorbachev's reforms worked.
False
Who was the Soviet leader at the beginning of the Cold War?
Stalin
What made this a "cold" war and not "hot"?
no direct fighting
The first man to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong
What was the name of Reagan's plan to use satellites to shoot down missiles?
Star Wars (Strategic Defense Initiative)
1st democratically elected president of Russia
Boris Yeltsin
Which U.S. President interacted with Gorbachev and helped bring about the end of the Cold War
Ronald Reagan
What is a Russian astronaut called?
cosmonaut
The space project on which the US and Soviet Union collaborated
International Space Station
Name one way that the monkeys who were sent to space died
suffocating, landing impact
What is Reagan's famous line about the Berlin Wall?
Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall.
Which country was led by Kim Jong Un?
North Korea
What was the treaty between western countries called?
NATO - North Atlantic Treaty Organization
One of the first dogs to successfully orbit the Earth
Belka/Strelka
The Soviet Union reached both of these planets before the United States
Venus, Mars
What did Perestroika encourage?
economic reform
Who was the President at the beginning of the Cold War?
Harry Truman
What was the pact between pro-Soviet countries called?
Warsaw Pact
Name one of the men who died in Apollo 1
Grissom, White, Chaffee
Name of the first man (Russian cosmonaut) in space
Yuri Gargarin
What did Glasnost promote?
Freedom of speech, religion, and the press
Who was the leader of communist China?
Mao Zedong
What was the U2 Affair early in the Cold War?
the shooting down of an American plane which America denied and Russia proved