Arms Race
The event that ended WWII and started the Nuclear Age
What is Hiroshima?
What is Nagasaki?
The two main ideologies that drove the Cold War
What is communism and capitalism?
The U.S. organisation founded to advance space research
What is NASA?
The counterculture that emerged to protest against the Vietnam War in favour of peace
What are hippies?
The two foreign intelligence agencies operating during the Cold War. One agency for the U.S. and one for the USSR
What is the KGB and the CIA?
Known as the father of the atomic bomb
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
A group of 32 countries dedicated to protect their members from the threat of communism
What is NATO?
The first satellite to be launched into space
What is Sputnik I?
The first major conflict between communism and the west
What is the Korean War?
This Cold War slang term named after an animal referred to an informant or agent secretly working against their own organisation
What is a mole?
The closest the world has ever come to Nuclear War was due to this event
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
The thought that if one country fell to communism, surrounding countries would follow
What is the Domino Theory?
The dog that the USSR sent into space and sparked a debate on the ethics of animal experimentation
Who is Laika the Space Dog?
The communist rebels that aided North Vietnam during the Vietnam War
What are the Vietcong?
Who are the Cambridge Five?
The largest nuclear warhead ever tested
What is the Tsar Bomba?
The ideological divide that separated Europe
What is the Iron Curtain?
The first man to ever be sent into space
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
This structure was erected to prevent people from escaping communist Germany
What is the Berlin Wall?
The soviet spy incident that changed Australian politics and allowed the Liberal Party to stay in power for almost 20 years
What is the Petrov Affair?
The codename of the first nuclear test conducted
What is the Trinity Test?
The document establishing that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The first time the United States and the Soviet Union collaborated on a space mission
The year that the Soviet Union dissolved and the Cold War officially ended
What is 1991?
The Venona Project uncovered Soviet spies in the U.S., including this couple executed in 1953 for passing nuclear secrets
Who are Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?