Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
This country was trying to contain communism.
What is the USA?
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
Two major nations in the Cold War competed in the Space Race.
Who are the USA 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.
What is 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. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This is the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of.
What is the USSR?
The name of the place where exiles and the USA tried to overthrow Fidel Castro
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947
What is Sputnik I?
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)?
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 or Style of Government Conflict?
This policy was instilled to fight communism threats and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
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 Cold War.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
These are the years the Cold War started and then ended.
What is 1945 and 1991?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
President of the United States who said the USA would land a man on the moon.
Who is JFK?
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?
The year President John F. Kennedy was assassinated?
What is 1963?
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove much of anything.
What is McCarthyism?
A nation that is stronger than other powerful nations.
What is a superpower?
The year of the moon landing and the first two men to land on the moon.
What is 1969, Neil Armstrong, and Buzz Aldrin?
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
What is Central Intelligence Agency CIA?