Name that country
Island nation that the Soviets put ICBM missiles on:
Cuba
The US first used atomic bombs on Japan in what year?
1945
Name the US president who gave the order to drop the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasake, Japan:
Harry Truman
The goal of capitalism is:
Economic freedom (earn and spend money as you want to)
Nation near Japan and China that had a war.....this was between WW II and the Vietnam War.
Korea and the Korean War
When was the Korean War? At least tell me what decade it happened.....
1950 - 1953 (the '50s)
Who was the US president during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
The goal of communism is:
Convert (control) the whole world.
Which nation - was divided by the Soviets on one side and Americans on the other side? There was even a big wall put up by the Soviets!
Germany (East and West; the city of Berlin was also divided)
What year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
1962
Name the Cuban rebel/dictator that took control of Cuba in the 1950s:
Fidel Castro
About how many American soldiers died during the Vietnam War?
58,000
Nations that agreed with the US, Britain, France and many others joined a group known as:
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Give the years of the Vietnam War......at least the decades that it was fought.....
1963 - 1975
Give any part of the name of the Soviet leader who put the nuclear missiles in Cuba, threatening world peace:
Nikita Khrushchev
The Gulf of _______________ Resolution gave President Johnson all the military powers he wanted during the Vietnam War, short of using nuclear missiles. Fill in the blank with the answer:
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
The Soviet Union and a grouping of other communist countries formed this group:
Warsaw Pact
The "Cold War" happened when? (Get the answer correct within 5 years on either end of the time frame for points!)
1945 - 1990
Provide any part of the name of the Russian leader (the Soviet Union was now broken up) in the 1980s who worked with President Reagan to limit nuclear weapons:
Mikhail Gorbachev
Building up military weapons stockpiles by both the Soviet Union and the US was called:
The arms race