Superpower Showdown
Name the two main countries that faced off during the Cold War.
Who are the US and Soviet Union?
What city had a famous wall dividing it?
What is the Berlin Wall?
Who was the first Soviet to go to space?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
What American pilot was taken prisoner for spying using a plane in 1960?
Who is Francis Gary Powers?
What was the name of the US spy plane shot down over the USSR in 1960?
What is the U-2 plane?
What did the leaders of the US and USSR install after a near nuclear war scare?
What is a direct hotline?
What war is often called the “forgotten war” but was a key conflict of the Cold War?
What is the Korean War?
Who was the first American to go to space?
Who is Alan Shephard
Who was the hotheaded leader of the USSR who hated JFK?
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
Who assassinated JFK?
Who is Lee Harvey Oswald?
What imaginary line, coined by Churchill, divided Europe into east and west?
What is the Iron Curtain?
What southeast Asian war deeply divided the US in 1960s/70s?
What is the Vietnam War?
What was the name of the first satellite?
What was Sputnik?
Who was the first man on the moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What famous spy movies became popular during the Cold War?
What are James Bond movies?
What crisis brought the world closest to nuclear war in 1962?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What 1961 failed US invasion tried to overthrow Cuba?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
What US president challenged America to land on the moon?
Who is JFK?
How was the Cuban Missile Crisis ended by JFK?
He agreed to remove our missiles from Turkey and not to invade Cuba
What American agency was responsible for spying in the USSR?
What is the CIA?
What were the two opposing ideologies of the Cold War?
What are communism and capitalism?
Which leader of Cuba did we try to pay a mob boss to assassinate?
Who is Fidel Castro?
What was the first successful moon landing mission called?
What is Apollo 11?
What Senator became known for the Red Scare suspicions?
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
What Soviet agency is was the rival of the CIA?
Who are the KGB?