This President oversaw the Korean War, and the introduction of the Atomic Bomb.
Who is Harry Truman?
A War in East Asia following the Second World War. It was fought along the 38th parallel.
What is the Korean War?
This type of weapon splits and atom apart, causing devastation.
What is an atom bomb/fission bomb?
A term that came to associate with claims of socialist sympathies.
What is McCarthyism?
The Apollo Spacecraft.
What is the Saturn V?
This President was made famous for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Cold War.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This conflict was unpopular with the American public, and reinstituted the draft.
What is Vietnam?
This high altitude aircraft spied on Soviet troops and facilities throughout the Cold War. In 1960, one was shot down, causing a political crisis.
What is the U-2?
The youth movement and ideas of the 60's and early 70's.
What is Counterculture?
German scientist employed by NASA.
Who is Wernher von Braun?
This President served in the armed forces, and oversaw the construction of the Interstate.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
This crisis occurred off the coast of Florida in 1962.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This fortification split a city until 1989.
What is the Berlin Wall?
Mandatory military service.
What is the Draft?
The leader of Communist Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
This President became Famous for his "Great Society" and the Vietnam War.
Who is Lyndon B Johnson?
This event marked the end of the Space Race, and the largest human achievement.
What is the Moon Landing/ Apollo 11?
This aircraft, nicknamed the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Friend) was used extensively in conflicts throughout the Cold War, and is still in service today.
What is the B-52?
LBJ's new Government program to better American society.
What is the Great Society?
Russian Officer who averted war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Vasily Arkhipov?
This President oversaw the country, and was reelected in a landslide, but left office after a 1972 scandal.
Who is Richard Nixon?
This blockade caused US air power to supply a German city with necessities for over a year.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
The Program that brought man to the moon.
What is the Apollo Program?
A term for Soviet controlled Europe first coined by Winston Churchill in 1946.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Communist forces in South Vietnam.
Who are the Viet-Cong?