Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Space Race
Vietnam War
Miscellaneous
100
The Korea that fought on the side of capitalism.
What is South Korea?
100
The President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
100
The first person to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
100
The capital of South Vietnam when the countries were still separate.
What is Saigon?
100
The central ideological conflict of the Cold War was between these two economic philosophies.
What are capitalism and communism?
200
The Chinese leader who supported North Korea in this war.
Who is Mao Zedong?
200
The name of the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Krushchev?
200
The first satellite the Soviets launched into space.
What is Sputnik?
200
Vietnam was a colony of this European country.
What is France?
200
Winston Churchill’s name for the dividing line between the Soviet-influenced countries in Eastern Europe and the rest of Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain.
300
North Korea and South Korea were part of this country before World War II ended.
What is Japan?
300
The number of days the Cuban Missile Crisis lasted.
What is 13?
300
The German scientists the Americans enlisted to help with the development of their space program.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
300
The leader of the Vietnamese Workers’ Party (communist party).
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
300
The word that means a release of tension and is often used to describe a period of the Cold War
What is détente?
400
The “winner” of the Korean War.
What is neither side! The Korean peninsula is still divided today.
400
The number of miles Cuba is from the closest point in the U.S.
What is 90?
400
The name of the rocket the Nazis developed during World War II.
What is the V-2 rocket?
400
The battle after which the colonizers of Vietnam left permanently.
What is Dien Bien Phu?
400
The name of the economic recovery plan that the US put in place after World War II to prevent European countries from falling to communism.
What is The Marshall Plan?
500
North Korea and South Korea are divided along the __th parallel.
What is 38?
500
The name of the advisory group the President of the United States assembled to help him navigate the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is EXCOMM?
500
The first manned mission to orbit Earth’s moon.
What is Apollo 8?
500
The Communist organization that fought the colonizers of Vietnam and successfully drove them out of the country.
What is the Viet Minh.
500
The four countries that divided up control of Germany after World War II and leading into the Cold War.
What are the Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom, France?
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