This 1950–1953 war was an early military test of U.S. containment policy in Asia.
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?
This physical structure in Germany became the most famous symbol of the Iron Curtain.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The total number of nuclear bombs detonated during war.
TWO
(Hiroshima & Nagasaki)
This was the first Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957, escalating fears of Soviet missile capabilities.
What is Sputnik?
Name 3 Cold War Era presidents.
Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford Carter, Reagan, Bush (Sr.)
This U.S. President first introduced the policy of containment in 1947.
Who was Harry Truman?
This term describes the military strategy where both sides have enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?
This term describes the Cold War competition between the U.S. and USSR to achieve superior spaceflight capabilities.
The Space Race
This policy, introduced under President Nixon, aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the USSR during the 1970s.
What is détente?
The leader of the North Vietnamese army.
Ho Chi Minh
This failed 1961 U.S. invasion of Cuba aimed to stop the spread of communism near American shores.
What was the Bay of Pigs?
This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Apollo mission achieved the first successful moon landing in July 1969.
Apollo 11
The United States agency created in 1958, as a direct result of the Soviet's taking the lead in the SPACE RACE.
What is NASA?
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. This is known as:
McCarthyism (Red Scare)
This type of weapon, first tested by the U.S. in 1952, was far more powerful than the atomic bomb.
What is the HYDROGEN BOMB?
This American president famously promised to land a man on the moon before the decade was out.
Who was John F. Kennedy?
When a group of people gather, often with signs, to show their disagreement with the way things are going.
What is PROTEST?