Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
USSR
This is what the United States and USSR were building as weapons during the Cold War
Nuclear weapons
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
U.S. and the USSR
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
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. Nuclear missiles were placed on an island near the United States. One minute to midnight.
Cuban Missile Crisis
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. This was part of which movement that was characterized by fear of communists infiltrating American society.
Red Scare
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Rosenbergs
This was the name of the two objects sent into space to represent human achievement and make contact with extraterrestrials if they ever find them.
Golden records
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.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
This conflict began as a fight against French colonialism, but changed to be a Cold War proxy war once the United States got involved by sending Douglas MacArthur to lead the Southern forces
Vietnam War
This was the telegram sent from a U.S. spy within Russia to the United States detailing how the U.S. needed to deal with Communism
The Long Telegram
This is the name of the term that means if one side deploys nuclear weapons, the other would respond resulting in both being obliterated
Mutual Assured Destruction
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik
The international organization whose stated aims are 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.
United Nations (UN)
The main cause of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII
tension between communism and capitalism
This was the economic plan to rebuild Europe after WWII, it also served as a form of containment
Marshall Plan
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
Bay of Pigs
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
JFK
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
NASA
What years did the Cold War start and end.
1945-1991
This policy said the U.S. would support any country in their fight against communism and promote democracy in 1947.
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.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
Apollo 11
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)