Vocabulary
Early Cold War
The Space Race
Mid-Late Cold War
Korean War
100
To seal off a place to prevent goods or people from entering or leaving.
What is a blockade?
100
The safety saying that school children were taught in the early parts of the Cold War in case a nuclear weapon was detonated.
What is duck and cover?
100
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
Who were the first men to land on the moon?
100
This country underwent a Communist revolution in 1959.
What is Cuba?
100
This group wanted to make the whole Korean peninsula communist, so they invaded their neighbors.
Who were the North Koreans?
200
Belief during the Cold War that if one nation attacked the other then both would be destroyed.
What is MAD (mutually assured destruction)?
200
This side of Germany was communist and the other was a republic during the Cold War.
What is East Germany/Berlin (communist) and West Germany/Berlin (republic)?
200
Made it out of Earth's atmosphere in Sputnik I to become the first in outer space.
Who were the Soviets?
200
The leaders of the Cuban Communist revolution.
Who were Fidel Castro and Che Guevara
200
He was the leader of the U.S troops during the Korean War until he disobeyed the President's order and pulled China into the war.
Who was Gen. Douglas MacArthur?
300
A prisoner of war
What is a POW?
300
This began in 1949 when the USSR tested their first atomic bomb.
What is the nuclear arms race?
300
He became the first person to make it into space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin a Soviet?
300
The name given to the time period when the USSR put up nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
300
One of the big reasons the Korean War did not end in 1951 dealt with the treatment of this group.
Who were POWs?
400
The short name for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization which had the aim of stopping the spread of communism.
What is NATO?
400
This U.S. senator headed committees to investigate the spread of communism in the U.S.
Who was Joseph McCarthy?
400
He was the first person to walk on the moon.
Who was Neal Armstrong?
400
The U.S. president who challenged Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
400
This result of the Korean War made the South Koreans and the US happy.
What is the stop of the spread of Communism?
500
An area where no troops or weapons are allowed inside.
What is a demilitarized zone?
500
This was the name given to the fear of communism that spread throughout the U.S. where many people were investigated for suspicion of Communist ties.
What is the "Red Scare?"
500
The types of animals sent into space by the Soviets and the Americans?
What were dogs (Soviets) and chimps (Americans)?
500
December 1991
What is the fall of the Soviet Union?
500
The political division of the Korean peninsula today.
What is the northern Communist half and the southern free republic half?
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