Military Conflicts
This war saw Israel decisively defeat their Soviet-backed Arab neighbors in less than a week...
What is the Six-Day war?
This assault rifle would become the most produced in history...
What is the Avtomat Kalashnikova 47?
This 1962 standoff is considered to be the closest the world has come to nuclear war...
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This Soviet premier carried out a hefty amount of De-Stalinization, and was the Premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis...
Who was Nikita Kruschev?
This Organization, founded in 1949, served as the military alliance of Western nations against Soviet aggression...
What is NATO?
This war started in the late 1970s would mark the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union...
What is the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan?
The competition between the Soviets and the Americans over space travel and who could progress further than the other...
What is the Space Race?
This American General was dismissed by President Truman during the Korean War for Insubordination...
Who was Douglas MacArthur?
This 1982 war between Britain & Argentina was fought over a group of islands in the South Atlantic...
What is the Falklands War?
This Aircraft would be built in response to the Soviet to the Soviet Mig-25 and would come to dominate the skies for decades to come...
WHat is the F-15
The largest airlift in history...
What is the Berlin AIrlift?
This KGB officer would work in East Germany extensively. He would also be leader in Post Cold War Russia...
Who is Vladimir Putin?
This civil war would see the rise of one of the most brutal dictators in history, a man who caused the deaths of 25% of his country...
What is the Cambodian Civil War?
This top-secret American Space Program would launch the first Spy Satellites...
What is the Corona Program?
This crisis saw the US and Soviet Union be on the same side against Britain and France...
What is the Suez Crisis?
This Soviet Commander single handedly stopped nuclear war from erupting from the Cuban Missile Crisis because he did not give his permission to launch a nuclear torpedo...
Who is Vasili Arkhipov?
The USA and the Soviet Union signed this treaty in 1987 to reduce intermediate-range nuclear missiles...
What is the INF treaty?
This civil war saw Soviet supported Cubans fight against American supported South Africans...
What is the Angolan Civil War?
This Soviet Experimental Aircraft, nicknamed the "Caspian Sea Monster" would utilize the ground effect to fly just above the water...
What is the Lun-Class Ekranoplan?
In 1983, NATO conducted this military exercise, which the Soviets mistook for preparation for a real nuclear attack, nearly leading to a preemptive strike...
What is Able Archer 83?
This American General was the Air Force Chief of Staff from 1961-1965, he wanted to invade Cuba during the Crisis, was a major proponent of nuclear weapons, and after he left the military, her would be on the presidential ticket of Election of 1968...
Who is Curtis LeMay?
This Commercial flight in 1983 was shot down by the Soviets causing 269 deaths and leading to increased tensions around the world...
What is Korean Airlines Flight 007?