Containment Theory
The Korean War
The Space Race
Vietnam
Counter Culture
Cuban Missile Crisis
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What is Containent Theory?
It is the strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States during the Cold War to prevent the spread of communism after the end of World War II
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Which Country boarders Korea to the North?
China
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What is a Space Race?
The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States and the Soviet Union, to achieve superior spaceflight capability.
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Name any country that boarders Vietnam
China
Cambodia
Laos
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What is counter culture?
a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.
"the idealists of the 60s counterculture"100
When was the Cuban Missel Crisis?
October 16, 1962
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What is the Domino Theory?
that when one nation falls to communism the impact is such as to weaken the resistance of other countries and facilitate, if not cause, their fall to communism.
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What year did the Korean War Start?
June 25, 1950
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What is this? What did it do? 
sputnik 1
The spacecraft obtained data pertaining to the density of the upper layers of the atmosphere and the propagation of radio signals in the ionosphere
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When did the Vietnam war start?
November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975
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What were the main ideas of the movement?
Peace
Love
Drugs
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What is the Bay of Pigs?
Invasion was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, consisting of Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution
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What does the USSR stand for ?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
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What side of Korea was back by the Communist?
Which was backed by the Democratic Americans?
North Korea
South Korea
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Who was the first organism in Space?
The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957.
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Who was involved in the first Indo-China war?
fought between France and Việt Minh (Democratic Republic of Vietnam), and their respective allies, from 19 December 1946 until 20 July 1954
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What band came from England that song about Revolution?
The Beatles
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Where did America have missiles ? Who where they poineted at?
Turkey
Russia
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When was USSR made?
After the october Revolution 1917.
Karl Marx
friedrich engels
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What line divded Korea?
The 38th parallel.
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Who was the first man on the moon?
What year was this accomplished ?
Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module Pilot Buzz
1969
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How long did the Vietnma war last?
1955-1975
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What is the name of the Music Festivel that became populare durring this time?
Woodstock
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Who was the leader of Russia durring this time?
Who was the leader of America?
Nikita Khrushchev
J.F.K
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What is the Berlin Wall? How did America react to this?
The crisis started on June 24, 1948, when Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany
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When did the Korean war end? How did it end?
July 27, 1953
an armistice was signed, ending organized combat operations and leaving the Korean Peninsula divided much as it had been since the close of World War II at the 38th parallel
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What was one of the longest lasting results of the Space race?
GPS has its origins in the Sputnik era when scientists were able to track the satellite with shifts in its radio signal, known as the “Doppler Effect,” which became the foundational idea for modern GPS
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Why did the TV change the way people thought of the war?
Americans were able to see the horros of the war from their homes.
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What is a hippie?
a person of unconventional appearance, typically having long hair, associated with a subculture involving a rejection of conventional values and the taking of hallucinogenic drugs
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How did the Cuban Missile Crissis end?
With a hot line establishing relations between the USSR and USA. This helped end the cold war