Random Cold War Nuggets
The 1980 Olympics took place in Lake Placid, New York. This is the scene of one of the greatest sport moments in United States History. What sport was this?
Hockey
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
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 war.
United Nations
Famous American Senator that sparked a hysteria and paranoia of communists with all aspects of American Society
Joseph McCarthy
When the U.S. used planes to drop food and supplies to help the people of West Berlin.
Berlin Airlift
On April 29, 1950, the CIA lost its first officer in the line of duty
Douglas Mackiernan
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.
Cuban Missile Crisis
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
NASA
British leader that warned Americans about the "Iron Curtain" that is descending upon Europe.
Winston Churchill
_________was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front. This CIA backed plan failed miserably to overthrow Castro
Bay of Pigs
The Mach-2 B-58 Hustler jet was created in the 1950s and designed to deliver nuclear weapons to the USSR. The US Air Force wanted to include ejector seats on the jets but couldn't figure out how to test them. After using recruits from the unemployment lines to test them on the ground, they used ________
Bears
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
Vietnam War
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
H.U.A.C
Leader of Communist forces and policies within Vietnam during the Vietnam War. He was a freedom fighter that devoted his lifetime to gain independence.
Ho Chi Minh
Introduced by the United States in 1948 to provide significant economic aid to Europe to help rebuild the continent after WW2. Poverty was the biggest threat to communism.
Marshall Plan
What phrase was added to the Pledge of Allegiance during the Cold War by Congress as a symbol to the resistance of the atheist Soviet Union?
Under God
In December of 1979, the Soviet Union invaded this country that will spark a 10 year war and ultimately bankrupt the country
Afghanistan
The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.
CIA
List all US presidents between 1944 and 1970
Truman
Eisenhower
Kennedy
Lyndon B Johnson
Nixon
The ____________ set the stage for economic, ideological, and political tensions between East and West at the end of WW2.
Yalta Conference
In the 1980's, a weird topic of conversation between American President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev occurred. The two men agreed that if _______ showed up, they would pause the Cold War.
Aliens
In 1956, this country revolted against Soviet rule within their country. Thousands of protesters took to the streets. The communists responded by brutally suppressing the protest.
The Hungarian Revolution
In the 1950's, the CIA conducted a bunch of Mind Control Experiments to help during interrogations.
MK Ultra
Who was the first person to be killed on live television?
Lee Harvey Oswald
From 1979-1981, Dozens of Americans were taken hostage in response to America's unwillingness to turn over the former leader of this country
Iran Hostage Crisis