Conflicts
This was the first major military proxy war between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
Who are the U.S. and the USSR?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency that looked for communists in the U.S.
What is the 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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What was the communist country that the U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro by using weapons provided by The United States?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
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.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists, this conflict was televised?
What is the Vietnam War?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
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.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
The international organization that aims at 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)?
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
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?
What is NASA?
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove much. This witch hunt was called?
What is McCarthyism?
What the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
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.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?