Cold War 1
Who was the First man to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
This was the economic system that the USSR followed and tried to expand during the Cold War
What is communism?
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the Soviet Union or Russia?
This is the title given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries involved.
Cold War
System of Government that the USSR employed to continue to have power over its citizens.
What is a dictatorship or autocracy?
A political theory developed by Karl Marx
Marxism
What was the first satellite launched into space called?
Sputnik
This was created to divide the German capital from communists and non-communist countries.
Berlin Wall
Name the city that was divided into Soviet, American, British and French controlled sections after WWII.
What is Berlin?
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?
Name the generally accepted years for the start and end of the Cold War?
What is 1945 or 1947 and 1991?
What year did the Berlin wall come down?
What is 1989?
Who was the President when the United States was closest to Nuclear War?
John F. Kennedy
This describes the constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war
What is the Arms Race?
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
What is NATO?
The American space organization's name is...
NASA
What was the US program called that created the first nuclear weapons?
What was the name of the canal that was seized by Egypt that led to a world wide crisis?
Suez Canal
Economic system based on private ownership of property
Capitalism
The President of the United States after WWII.
Harry S. Truman
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations
Warsaw Pact
What does the acronym M.A.D. stand for?
Mutually Assured Destruction
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
The leader of the Soviet Union during the first part of the Cold War
Joseph Stalin
The first American satellite sent to outer space.
Explorer I
What was the space program that saw the first humans walk on the moon?
Apollo
On this date, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union ceased to exist.
December 25, 1991
Chinese communist leader of China
Mao Zedong
Who was the leader of Egpyt that attempted to take over the canal that connected the Red and Mediterranean Seas?
Nasser
What was Cuba's number 1 export that the US blocked imports of?
Sugar
What was the US division that tried to overthrow Castro in 1961?
CIA
Who were the two US president's that planned and executed the attempted overthrow of Castro's government?
Kennedy and Eisenhower
What was name of the bay in which the exiled Cubans and CIA operatives attempted to land?
Bay of Pigs