This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
200
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.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
200
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
400
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500
Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but nevercould prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
What is Censored?
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.