Korean War
Cuban Missile Crisis
Vietnam War
Key Individuals
Miscellaneous Events
100

The countries on the Korean Peninsula.

What is North and South Korea?

100

The three leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.

What is Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro?

100

Herbicide used to kill vegetation in the Vietnam War.

What is Agent Orange?

100

This president was elected on the promise of ending the Korean War.

What is Eisenhower?

100

US foreign policy during the Cold War to stop the spread of Communism.

What is Containment?

200

This country invaded South Korea to start the Korean War.

What is North Korea?

200

The year the Cuban Missile Crisis took place.

What is 1962?

200

50,000 US ground troops were sent to Vietnam this year.

What is 1965?

200

This US President wanted to achieve the goal of landing a man on the moon.

What is Kennedy?

200

The two major alliances during the Cold War.

What is NATO and Warsaw Pact?

300

North and South Korea are locked in a stalemate along this border.

What is the 38th parallel?

300

The US secretly had missiles in this country.

What is Turkey?

300

This was considered the turning point of the Vietnam War.

What is Tet Offensive?

300

USSR leader during the Korean War.

What is Stalin?

300

The first spaceflight to land humans on the moon.

What is Apollo 11?

400

This country occupied Korea before World War II.

What is Japan?

400

Nuclear missiles were discovered by these in Cuba.

What are U2 Planes?

400

This publication revealed the true atrocities of US involvement in the Vietnam War.

What are the Pentagon Papers?

400

American foreign policy that supported democratic countries fighting against Communism originated from this US President's speech.

What is Harry S. Truman?

400

The term for the metaphorical separation between the USSR and west European countries.

What is Iron Curtain?

500

Truman ordered this general to push the North Koreans past the border.

What is MacArthur?

500

The first public action Kennedy took following the discovery of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

What is naval blockade around Cuba?

500

Passed by the US Congress, this gave President Johnson the power to take necessary action and prevent aggression in Southeast Asia.

What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?

500

This US politician accused members in the government of being Communists.

What is Joseph McCarthy?

500

Signed by Eisenhower in 1958, this created NASA.

What is Space Act of 1958?
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