Conflicts
Containment
Arms & Space Race
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
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
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 USSR?
200

What were the U.S and Russia building in competition of each other.

What are nuclear weapons?

300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300

What is the name & abbreviation of the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its members agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party?

What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

300
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
400

What years did the Cold War start and end.

What is 1945, 1989

400

What is the name of the alliance formed to unify communist countries?

What is the Warsaw Pact

400
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
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