Conflicts
Containment
Arms Race
Space Race
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
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.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
200

What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?

What is the Soviet Union?

200
What is the name of the place where exiles 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

What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?

What is the Vietnam War?

300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
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.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
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.

What is the United Nations (UN)?

400

Who led the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
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 nation's public space?
What is NASA?
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500

This country, with the help of the United States and the UN, was able to resist communism. This country would also be a site for US nuclear weapons.

What is Turkey?

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
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?
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