The Cold War Ignites
This U.S. policy aimed to stop the spread of com
Containment
This North Carolina town was the site of a 1961 accident involving a dropped nuclear bomb.
Goldsboro
This line of latitude divided North and South Korea after World War II.
38th Parallel
This dog became the first living creature sent into orbit by the Soviet Union.
Laika
Before the United States became heavily involved, this European country controlled Vietnam as a colony.
France
Built in 1961, this barrier became a powerful symbol of the division between communist and democratic Europe.
The Berlin Wall
This policy promoted openness and transparency in Soviet government and society.
Glasnost
Rocky Balboa
This European country was divided into four occupation zones after World War II, becoming an early hotspot of Cold War tension.
Germany
This economic system, favored by the United States during the Cold War, is based on private ownership and free markets.
Capitalism
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea refers to which country on the Korean peninsula?
North Korea
This Soviet satellite, launched in 1957, became the first artificial object to orbit Earth.
Sputnik
This line of latitude temporarily divided North and South Vietnam after the Geneva Accords.
The 17th Parallel
This 1962 confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in the Caribbean brought the world close to nuclear war.
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This policy introduced by Nikita Khrushchev reduced the power of Stalin’s legacy and criticized his rule.
Destalinziation
The Soviet Union ran experiments, even setting up a compound in Hawkins, trying to better understand the "Upside-Down" in this Netflix series.
Stranger Things
Formed in 1949, this military alliance united the United States with Western European nations against Soviet influence.
NATO
This Cold War strategy focused on discouraging nuclear war by building up weapons to scare the enemy from attacking.
Deterrence
This U.S. general led United Nations forces early in the Korean War before being removed by President Truman.
Douglas McArthur
This 1969 NASA mission successfully landed the first humans on the Moon.
Apollo 11
Religious tensions involving followers of this belief contributed to unrest in South Vietnam under President Diem.
Buddhism
In 1956, an uprising in this Eastern Europe country was crushed by Soviet troops after citizens demanded political reforms.
Hungary
These agreements between the U.S. and USSR aimed to limit the number of nuclear weapons each side could possess.
SALT I & II
This game was developed in the Soviet Union; rising to worldwide popularity after being the first packaged game with the Nintendo Gameboy.
Tetris
This 1947 U.S. policy promised aid to countries threatened by communism, especially Greece and Turkey.
The Truman Doctrine
This doctrine argued that a nuclear war would destroy both sides completely.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
President Truman described U.S. involvement in Korea with this term to avoid calling it an official war.
Police Action
This American astronaut became the first U.S. citizen to orbit Earth in 1962.
John Glenn
This controversial 1964 naval event helped lead to increased U.S. military involvement in Vietnam.
Gulf of Tonkin Incident
In 1968, The Prague Spring sought to create “socialism with a human face” in this country, before being ended by Soviet invasion and the removal of leader Alexander Dubček
Czechoslovakia
This period of eased tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union during the 1970s emphasized arms control and diplomacy.
Détente
In Pripyat, Ukraine, this nuclear power plant experienced a meltdown, leading to an environmental disaster that nearly destroyed all of eastern Europe.
Chernobyl
This American economic program provided billions of dollars to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II.
The Marshall Plan
The United States tested nuclear weapons at these Pacific islands during the early Cold War.
Bikini Atolls
Because it is often overshadowed by other conflicts, the Korean War is sometimes known by this nickname.
The Forgotten War
This Soviet cosmonaut was the first human to travel into space.
Yuri Gagarin
The U.S. military used this chemical defoliant to remove jungle cover during the war.
Agent Orange
This 1979 Soviet invasion attempted to prop up a communist government and became a long, costly conflict.
Afghanistan
This U.S. president increased pressure on the Soviet Union in the 1980s while also negotiating arms reduction agreements.
Ronald Reagan
The Avenger, Black Widow, was a Soviet spy trained by what Soviet secret police agency.
KGB (Komitet Gosudarstvennoi Bezopanosti)
Created in response to NATO, this alliance united the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states.
Warsaw Pact
These two Americans were convicted of passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
The Rosenbergs
This heavily guarded buffer zone still separates North and South Korea today.
DMZ
Fear of falling behind in the Space Race pushed the United States to invest heavily in this area, especially math and science in schools.
Education
This communist leader headed North Vietnam and became a symbol of Vietnamese independence.
Ho Chi Minh
This 1989 event symbolized the collapse of communist control in Eastern Europe and the approaching end of the Cold War.
Fall of the Berlin Wall
This Soviet leader ruled for much of the 1970s and is associated with a period of stagnation in the USSR.
Leonid Brezhnev
This video game series is set in a post-nuclear future and explores the aftermath of Cold War-style atomic war. In the third installation, you get to play at the Lone Wanderer, fight against the Enclave, and joins the Brotherhood of Steel.
Fallout
Winston Churchill used this term to describe the division separating communist Eastern Europe from democratic Western Europe.
The Iron Curtain
This anti-communist movement in the 1950s involved accusations and investigations of suspected communists.
McCarthyism
This country intervened and helped North Kroea push UN forces back, leading to an eventual stalemate.
China
This 1975 joint U.S.–Soviet mission symbolized easing Cold War tensions by linking spacecraft from both nations in orbit.
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
During the war, the U.S. secretly expanded bombing campaigns into this neighboring country.
Cambodia
Marxist-Leninism
This Soviet leader introduced major reforms in the 1980s that helped bring an end to the Cold War.
Mikhail Gorbachev
This boxer vacated his world title after refusing to enlist in the military after being drafted into the Vietnam War.
Muhammad Ali
This political and economic system, promoted by the Soviet Union, calls for shared ownership of property and a classless society.
Communism
President Eisenhower supported building this nationwide road system partly to improve military transportation during the Cold War.
Highways
This North Korean leader headed the communist government during the Korean War.
Kim Jong Un
These were the 3 astronauts on the Apollo mission that landed on the moon.
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, & Michael Collins
Because graphic footage was regularly broadcast into homes, Vietnam became known as the first this kind of war.
Televised
This Chiense leader rejected Khrushche's de-stalinization and attempts to have peaceful coexistence with the west as a betrayal on communism; leading to the Soviet-Sino split.
Mao Zedong
This economic restructuring program aimed to modernize and reform the Soviet economy.
Perestroika
The Cold War also influnced the global world of this sport/board game; rivalries between American Bobby Fischer and Soviet Boris Spassky, symbolized a proxy batte for intellectual superiority, national pride, and psychological warfare.
Chess