Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and Communist forces.
What is the Korean War?
This theory of Containment Policy said that if one country fell to communism, all the countries around them would.
What is Domino Theory?
The Space Race was a continuation of this other competition between the US & USSR.
What is the Space Race?
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communists & anarchists in the U.S.
What is House of Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
This is what Soviet and American politicians were really fighting over - communism and capitalism are systems of this concept.
What is economics?
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
It is the organization including many western European and North American nations. Its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Vietnam from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
The mission that successfully landed men on the moon in July of 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
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?
One form of Containment Policy that was used right after WWII to prevent western European countries from converting to communism.
What is the Marshall Plan?
The type of bomb developed during the Cold War that was more powerful than an atomic bomb.
What is a hydrogen bomb?
This president vowed the U.S. would go to the moon - not because it was easy, but because it was hard.
Who is JFK?
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's power in space?
What is NASA?
This conflict led to the War Powers Act, which would limit the power of the president in war after Johnson's questionable decision to engage in Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Incident?
This senator from Wisconsin created a "witch hunt" for communists in the U.S., and led to the blacklisting of many Hollywood directors and actors.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
The type of weapon the USSR and US were trying to build and perfect in order to intimidate one another.
What are nuclear weapons?
This animal was the first mammal to be launched into space, gathering vital information for the USSR about how to keep living things in space...living.
Who is Laika the dog?