Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
Space Race
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist in Asia.
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
Why did the Soviet Union stop building nuclear weapons.
The United States intimidated them with bigger and better weapons.
100
What two major countries in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
What is North and South Korea now?
North is communist, and South is democratic
200
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 on what island.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
What is the name of the place where the US tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
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.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
How was the reunification of East and West Germany a turning point for the Soviet Union?
It meant the end to the Soviet's dominance in Europe.
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. Hint he was the president at the time.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
Who was the leader of the North Vietnamese?
What is The Ho Chi Mihn
300
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
300
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. Eleanor Roosevelt was very involved in this.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
What country is this?
What is Vietnam?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
What was the name of the Soviet Union's President during the Cold War?
Nikita Khruschev
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the Space Station?
What is NASA?
500
What type of Gov. did the Soviet Union run.
What is communist
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communist spies but never could prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
What is removed?
500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
500
Russia enforced power in eastern Europe through harsh ruling. This was known as the?
What is the iron curtain?