General Knowledge
The USSR refers to which country involved in the Cold War?
Russia
There was a wall built in this place to divide the country between east and west.
Berlin
Define the arms race.
Militaristic, growing army, developing weapons and ammo
Define the space race.
The competition between the US and Russia to get explore space.
President of the United States during the end of the Cold War, eventually assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
John F. Kennedy
What were the 2 world superpowers during the Cold War?
USA and Russia
This country was in charge of maintaining order on the eastern side of the Berlin Wall.
Soviet Russia
What event ignites a flame in the Arms race?
Russia testing their own version of the atom bomb.
What can be seen as the end of the space race?
Neil Armstrong walking on the moon.
Communist dictator of Cuba during the Cold War.
Fidel Castro
This was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
The Space Race
These countries were in charge of maintaining order on the western side of the Berlin Wall.
USA, United Kingdom, France
Soon after finding out about Russia testing their version of the atom bomb, Harry S. Truman approves the testing of what superbomb?
The Hydrogen Bomb
The first living being ever sent into space.
Dog / Laika
Russian leader that played a huge role in the Cold War directly after Stalin.
Nikita Khrushchev
A competition between nations for superiority in the development and accumulation of weapons, especially between the US and the former Soviet Union during the Cold War.
Arms Race
The site was a remote swampy area on the southern coast of Cuba, where a night landing might bring a force ashore against little resistance and help to hide any U.S. involvement.
The Bay of Pigs
CIA agents inform JFK about the placement of intercontinental ballistic missiles being placed in what country?
Cuba
The first US mission to try and put a living being into orbit.
Project Mercury
First living being that the US sent to Russia.
Ham the Chimpanzee
How did the Cold War get its name?
Weapons of mass destruction were made, but never used against one another.
I am round but not always around,
Sometimes I'm light, sometimes I'm dark, sometimes I'm both,
Sometimes I'm whole, sometimes I'm not, sometimes a glimpse of me is all you'll get,
Everyone wants to step on me but few got chance
The Moon
What did the arms race eventually lead to?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The name of the mission that landed man on the moon.
Apollo 11
Names of the 3 astronauts on Apollo 11.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins