Conflicts
What was one of the major proxy wars fought between the US and USSR during the Cold War?
What is the Korean War/Vietnam War
What agency was established in 1958 in a desperate effort to put the US back ahead in the Space Race?
What is NASA?
Who succeeded President FDR?
Who is President Harry S. Truman
Name one country that borders Vietnam to the west.
Cambodia/Thailand/Laos
What was the closest point of a Nuclear Warfare breakout during the Cold War?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
President Kennedy made a deal to remove missiles from countries surrounding the Soviet Union if they removed missiles from Cuba. Which Soviet leader agreed to this truce?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Which President started the policy of Containment?
Who is President Harry S. Truman
Which part of Vietnam was Communist?
What is Northern Vietnam
Who was the leader of the Chinese Communist Revolution?
Who is Mao Zedong
The line that separates North Korea from South Korea is called
What is the 38th Parallel/DMZ Zone.
The first space satellite made by the Russians was called
What is Sputnik
Which President started the Korean War and fired General MacArthur toward the end of it?
Who is President Harry S. Truman
Which President gained war powers from our Congress and sent the most troops to Vietnam during the war?
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson
The Cuban leader whom President Kennedy tried to overthrow through the Bay of Pigs was
Who is Fidel Castro?
Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine
The Hydrogen bomb was about how many times as powerful as the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima?
What is 1000 times
Which President of the United States warned about the Domino Theory (if one country falls to Communism, they all will)?
Who is President Eisenhower
what name was given to the South Vietnamese soldiers who joined forces with the Communists?
What is The Viet Kong
Which famous speech marks the starting point of the Cold War?
What is Winston Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech
What was the name of the Wisconsin Senator responsible for the Red Scare?
Who is Joseph McCarthy
Which country did President Eisenhower stack the most missiles in shortly after assuming the Presidency?
Turkey
what year was JFK assassinated?
What is 1963
Who was the Vietnamese Communist leader in during the Vietnam war?
Who is Ho Chi Minh