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define McCarthyism
McCarthyism is the practice of making public accusations of disloyalty or subversion with little to no regard for evidence.
What was the name of the symbolic barrier that divided Berlin and was a prominent symbol of the Cold War until its fall in 1989?
The Berlin wall
What was the name of the USSR spaceship.
Sputnik
define communism
a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs.
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In what year did the Cold War officially end with the collapse of the Soviet Union?
1991
what was the name of the video we watched.
Duck and cover
what year did the Berlin wall fall
1989
who were the first two astronauts to walk on the moon
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
was the Soviet union a communist or capitalist society
communist
What was the name for the proxy war fought in Asia from 1950-1953 between a U.S.-backed South and a Soviet/Chinese-backed North?
korean war
what is the name of the turtle in the video we watched
Bert the turtle
What was one of the nicknames given to the Berlin Wall in the West?
who was the first person in space
Yuri Gagarin
What U.S. President announced a policy in the 1950s to send troops to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communism?
president eisenhower
what does MAD stand for
Mutually Assured Destruction
what would the duck and cover drills include
Students would "duck" under desks and "cover" their heads and bodies to shield themselves from falling debris and the intense heat of a nuclear blast.
when was the berlin wall built
august 13, 1961
what year did the USSR launch sputnik
1957
Michael Gorbachev
This was a key military alliance formed in 1949 by the U.S. and several Western European nations for mutual defense against the Soviet bloc.
NATO
how many private fallout shelters were built during the cold war.
A. 100,000
B. 200,000
C. 50,000
D. 80,000
B. 200,000
What was the common term for the illegal emigration from East Germany to the West?
Republikflucht
what year did the us land on the moon
1969
Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev implemented these two reform policies in the 1980s, which ultimately contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Glasnost and Perestroika
What symbolic, but not literal, "line" did Winston Churchill say had descended across Europe, dividing it into East and West?
what is the iron curtain