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This 1950–1953 war was an early military test of U.S. containment policy in Asia.

What is the Korean War?

100

The policy that tried to stop the spread of communism.

What is containment?

100

What did the SALT agreements do?

Make the US and USSR agree to limit (or cap) the total number of missiles they had. 

100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100

This physical structure in Germany became the most famous symbol of the Iron Curtain.

What is the Berlin Wall?

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

The policy that said we would go as close as possible to war with the USSR without actually doing it.

What is brinkmanship?

200

The total number of nuclear bombs ever detonated during war.

TWO

(Hiroshima & Nagasaki) 

200

This was the first Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957, escalating fears of Soviet missile capabilities.

What is Sputnik?

200

Name 3 Cold War Era presidents.

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford Carter, Reagan, Bush (Sr.)

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

This policy, introduced under President Nixon, aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the USSR during the 1970s.

What is detente?

300

This term describes the military strategy where both sides have enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other.

What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?

300

This invention related to the space race has a huge impact on our daily lives.

Satellite 

300

This failed 1961 U.S. invasion of Cuba aimed to stop the spread of communism near American shores.

What is the Bay of Pigs?

400

Those that fought for communist North Vietnam were called:

Vietcong

400

This policy meant the Soviet Union would start being more transparent and let some 'western' ideas and businesses in.

What is Glasnot?

400

This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

400

Why is the Apollo 11 mission in July 1969 important?

1st Human on the MOON

400

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?

500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500

Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. This is known as: 

McCarthyism (Red Scare)

500

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?

500

This American president famously promised to land a man on the moon before the decade was out.

Who was John F. Kennedy?

500

When a group of people gather, often with signs, to show their disagreement with the way things are going.

What is PROTEST?

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