Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist...
Vietnam War
Korean War
WWI
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
Russia
Cuba
United States
What is the U.S. ?
Who was executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union...
The Whitmans
The Rosenbergs
The Allies
Who are the Rosenbergs?
What two major countries in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
US and Cuba
US and USSR
Cuba and USSR
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)
House Committee of Communism (HCC)
House Committee of the Cold War (HCCW)
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma...
Cuban Missile Crisis
Bay of Pigs Invasion
Soviet nuclear bombs dropped
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
Mexico
England
USSR (Russia)
What is the USSR?
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
Cuban Bay
Black Sea
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik
Armageddon
Agni
What is Sputnik?
It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
Treaty of Versailles
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Paris Peace Treaty
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
Korean War
Vietnam War
Iraq War
What is the Vietnam War?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947...
Truman Doctrine
NATO
Paris Peace Treaty
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.
Gulf of Korea
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf of Tonkin
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
Apollo 11
Apollo 12
Apollo 13
What is Apollo 11?
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
Red Cross
United Nations
World Health Organization
What is the United Nations (UN)?
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
Nuclear Conflict
Ideological Conflict
Diplomatic Conflict
What is ideological conflict?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this...
Containment
Domino Effect
Communism
What is Containment?
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
U-1
U-2
U-3
What is U-2?
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Wilson
Reagan
JFK
Who is JFK?
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
CIA
FBI
NASA
What is NASA?
What years did the Cold War start and end...
1945-1991
1940-2001
1939-1992
What is 1945, 1991
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
Killed
Censored
Fired
What is Censored?
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
Nuclear Weapons
Warheads
Steam Missiles
What are nuclear weapons?
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
USSR
US
Cuba
What is the U.S.?
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
FBI
CIA
NSA
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?