Conflicts
Figures and Events
Space Race
Institutions and Images
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
Who are they, and what countries did they represent?
Ronald Reagan (United States) and Margaret Thatcher (United Kingdom)
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
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
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)?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
300
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.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400
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?
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
500
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
500
What does the image depict? Explain
The Cuban Missile Crisis: A confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, after the Soviets secretly placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles from the U.S. coast.
The U.S. discovered the missile, and it was ultimately resolved when the Soviets agreed to remove the missiles in exchange for a U.S. promise not to invade Cuba.