The dividing line between North and South Vietnam.
What is the 17th parallel?
100
The policy of making the military power of the U.S. and its allies so strong that no enemy would dare attack for fear of retaliation.
What is Deterrence?
100
The first artificial Earth satellite.
What is Sputnik?
100
The leader of the Soviet Union during WWII and the early Cold War.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
200
An idea of the Cold War, which involved preventing the spread of communism, and the reason why the U.S. entered the Korean War.
What is containment?
200
A jelly-like substance that stuck to trees and soldiers, and burned uncontrollably.
What is napalm?
200
An event where a U.S. spy plane was shot down by a Soviet Union guided missile.
What is the U-2 Incident?
200
The spaceflight which landed on the moon on July 20, 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
200
The U.S. president who authorized the use of nuclear weapons on Japan during the end of WWII, and the sending of troops to Korea.
Who is Harry S. Truman?
300
China.
What was the communist country who backed North Korea during the war?
300
A major offensive by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops which brutally attacked over one hundred South Vietnamese cities and towns.
What is the Tet Offensive?
300
The use of nuclear weapons by two or more sides that would result in total annihilation of both the attacker(s) and the defender(s).
What is mutually assured destruction?
300
The spaceflight in which the crew managed to survive an explosion of the oxygen tank in their spacecraft's service module on the way to the moon.
What is Apollo 13?
300
The man who became Premier of the Soviet Union in 1953, became one of the primary players during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and oversaw the construction of the Berlin Wall.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
400
General Douglas MacArthur's offensive designed to push the enemy across the North Korean border into China.
What is the "Home by Christmas" Offensive?
400
An event in which American soldiers killed nearly 500 innocent Vietnamese civilians.
What is the My Lai massacre?
400
The ability to get to the verge of war without entering it.
What is brinkmanship?
400
The first dog in space, carried into orbit on the Soviet Union's Sputnik 2.
Who is Laika?
400
The 36th president of the U.S., he escalated the fighting in Vietnam by sending more troops to support the South Vietnamese.
Who is Lyndon B. Johnson?
500
A situation in which neither side can gain an advantage.
What is a stalemate?
500
The two opposing sides of individuals in the U.S. One side supported the war, while the other side was strongly against it.
What are hawks and doves?
500
Long-range rockets that could strike different continents.
What are ICBMs?
500
The 37th president of the U.S. who claimed to have a "secret plan" for pulling U.S. troops out of Vietnam.