Terms
Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.
What is Communism?
JFK was assassinated in this U.S. city.
Where is Dallas, Texas?
This astronaut became the first human to set foot on the Moon in 1969.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Where North and South Korea agreed to split.
What is the 38th parallel?
Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.
What is the Berlin Wall?
What is the Simpsons?
The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba
Who is Fidel Castro?
First successful satellite in space.
What is Sputnik I?
This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.
What is the Vietnam War?
Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.
What is NATO?
This human body part stays the same size from birth, however, our nose and ears never stop growing.
What is the eyeball?
This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.
What is the Iron Curtain?
This president increased U.S. troops in Vietnam and served for a majority of the war.
Who is LBJ?
This Apollo mission successfully landed humans on the Moon for the first time.
What is Apollo 11?
This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This is the only U.S. state that grows coffee.
What is Hawaii?
Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.
What is the Domino Theory?
Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.
Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?
US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.
What is NASA?
This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin, leading to a massive airlift by the Western Allies.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.
What is the Marshall plan?
It’s the only continent with no active volcanoes.
Where is Australia?
Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s, sparking a US period known as....
What is "the red scare"?
Implemented the Great Leap Forward in China after his Communist takeover.
Who is Mao Zedong?
This U.S. president famously committed to landing a man on the Moon before 1970.
Who is JFK?
Two stark similar conflicts saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies
What is Vietnam and Korea?
This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support countries resisting communist pressure.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
In 1994, WIRED magazine described this 4-letter word as an idea leaping “from mind to mind … as viruses leap from body to body.”
What is a meme?