Soviet Union Space Program
What was the acronym of the Soviet Unions space program? Example:(NASA)
SSSR
In 1947 President Truman announced this policy of economic and military aid specifically to prevent Greece and Turkey from falling to communism.
Truman Doctrine
This Republican Senator from Wisconsin became the face of the second Red Scare by falsely claiming he had a list of hundreds of communists working in the US State Department.
Joseph McCarthy
He served as the face of the Soviet Union through World War II and the initial onset of the Cold War until his death in 1953
Joseph Stalin
Who was the first man to land on the moon
Neil Armstrong
When did the Soviet Union start developing space technologies?
1955
Officially known as the European Recovery Program this massive 1948 economic initiative pumped over $13 billion into rebuilding Western Europe.
Marshall Plan
This congressional investigative body, abbreviated as HUAC aggressively grilled Hollywood writers, directors, and actors about their political beliefs.
House Un-American Activities Committee
This Soviet leader succeeded Stalin, famously banged his shoe on a desk at the United Nations and oversaw the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nikita Khrushchev
How many members were on the Apollo 11
3 members
What was the Soviet Unions first spacecraft to make it to space?
Sputnik 1
Formed in 1949 this Western collective defense alliance states that an attack on one member is an attack on all...
NATO
Entertainment professionals who refused to cooperate with HUAC or were suspected of communist leanings found their names placed on these effectively ruining their careers
blacklists
During his 1963 visit to West Berlin this US President famously declared solidarity with the city by stating "Ich bin ein Berliner.
What were the names of the 3 programs used to classify spacecrafts?
Mercury, Apollo and Gemini
Who was the first person from the Soviet Union to make it into space?
Yuri Gagarin
In response to West Germany joining NATO the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellites formed this mutual defense treaty in 1955.
Warsaw Pact
This prominent American diplomat was accused by Whittaker Chambers of being a Soviet spy resulting in a sensational trial and a conviction for perjury in 1950
Alger Hiss
This leader brought a communist regime directly to the Western Hemisphere after successfully overthrowing the US-backed Cuban government in 1959.
Fidel Castro
What is the name of the first ship made for space travel?
Freedom 7
What was the Soviet Unions response to the first man to land on the moon?
Soviet Union publicly denied any participation in the space race.
This 1970's diplomatic strategy heavily pushed by President Nixon and Henry Kissinger sought to relax or thaw tensions between the US and the USSR.
détente
Signed into law by Truman in 1947, Executive Order 9835 established this program which forced millions of federal employees to undergo background checks to screen for subversion
Loyalty Review Program
Serving as Eisenhower's fiercely anti-communist Secretary of State he championed the strategy of "brinkmanship"—pushing the USSR to the brink of war to secure concessions.
John Foster Dulles
How many space crafts did it take BEFORE the one to land on the moon?
20