Cold War Random
What was the name of the first satellite in space?
Sputnik (USSR)
Who won the Korean War?
No one it was a tie!
What is the name of the time period where there was mass fear of communism?
The Red Scare
What is the foreign policy strategy used by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism?
Containment
Who was president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
JFK
What was a 15-month operation that supplied Berlin, Germany by air after the Soviet Union imposed a blockade on the city in 1948
The Berlin Airlift
Who gave Cuba nuclear missiles during the Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR
What US Senator led a witch-hunt of supposed communist spies in the US?
Joseph McCarthy
What legislation was intended to help European countries rebuild their economies, become stable partners to the United States, and support the development of democratic governments.
Marshall Plan
The leader of North Vietnam was....
Ho Chi Minh
What is the theory posits that if one country falls to communism, it will weaken the resistance of other countries and lead to their fall as well?
Domino Theory
Vietnam was a popular war.
True or False?
False!
What was a fallout shelter built to protect people from?
Nuclear war/fallout/atomic bombs
What legislation established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat of communism
Truman Doctrine
Which US President used the brinksmanship strategy during the Cold War?
Dwight D. Eisenhauer
What is the Selective Service System lottery called that determines the order in which young men would be sent to war?
The Draft
What chemical weapon was used by the US in Vietnam?
Agent Orange
The Hollywood blacklist refers to the mid-20th century banning of suspected Communists from working in the United States entertainment industry.
True or False?
True!
What were a series of negotiations between the US and USSR to limit the amount of nuclear weapons between them?
SALT Treaties
What US President told Soviet Leader "Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan
What was the failed invasion of Cuba by the CIA?
Bay of Pigs
What resolution was used to get the US to go to war in Vietnam?
Gulf of Tonkin
What happened to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
Executed for being communist spies.
What is a military strategy that assumes that if one superpower attacks another with nuclear weapons, both sides will be destroyed?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What president authorized the first of many deployments of regular ground combat troops to Vietnam to fight the Viet Cong in the countryside.
Lyndon B. Johnson