Space Race
The United States is considered to have won the space race when it accomplished this seemingly impossible task?
What is landing humans on the moon?
Both Korea and Vietnam had been occupied by this Axis Power country during World War II.
Who was Japan?
At the End of WWII, these two countries were the most powerful on the planet.
Who were the United States and the Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.)?
The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred when the Soviet Union sent these to be placed on the island of Cuba, just 90 miles south of Florida?
What are nuclear weapons (nuclear warheads, nuclear missiles)?
This structure was erected by the Soviet Union to stop people from leaving East Berlin.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This country began the space race when it launched the first artificial satellite into orbit around the earth?
What is the Soviet Union (when they launched Sputnik 1)?
The United States was unsuccessful in carrying out its goal of containing the spread of communism in this war, the only war the U.S. has ever lost.
What is the Vietnam War?
A war of contrasting ideologies that doesn't involve direct military action is known as this type of war.
What is Cold War?
This term describes the total destruction of the earth with atomic weapons, something everyone feared during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
What is nuclear annihilation?
This U.S. President is usually given credit with implementing policies that ended the Cold War.
Who was Ronald Reagan?
We have the space race to thank for the creation of these devices used in schools, homes, and offices around the world today.
What are computers (personal computers, laptop computers, chromebooks, etc.)?
During the Korean War, General Douglas MacArthur led troops that were sent by this international body, which had been established to settle disputes between countries.
What is the United Nations?
Poland, East Germany, and Hungary were all three members of this military defense alliance.
What was the Warsaw Pact?
After the crisis was resolved, this Soviet Leader eventually lost power because he was viewed by his people has having backed down to the Americans?
Who was Nikita Krushchev?
He was the leader of Communist China during the Cold War?
Who was Mao (Mao Zedong)?
This Soviet Union cosmonaut was the first human to orbit the earth in space?
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
This imaginary line was the boundary that divided North Korea from South Korea during fighting (a similar de-militarized zone divides the two countries today)
What is the 38th Parallel?
Canada, France, and more recently, Germany, are all members of this military defense alliance.
What is NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
He was the leader of communist Cuba and an ally of the Soviet Union?
Who was Fidel Castro?
After Germany was defeated, these four countries established "Occupation Zones," within the country to provide security and order for the German people.
Who were the Soviet Union, the United States, France, and Great Britain (U.K.)?
The space race truly began during World War II when this country invented the V2 rocket, used during wartime.
What is Germany?
This region of Southeast Asia, formerly colonized by the French, included Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar.
What is Indochina?
This was the United States' primary objective or goal during the Cold War
What was the policy "to contain the spread of communism?"
A naval blockade was used to help end the Cuban Missile Crisis, but during negotiations between Kennedy and Krushchev, the U.S. also agreed to remove its missiles from this country on the border of Europe and Asia?
What is Turkey?
The communist practice of taking individual private farms and combining them into large industrial farms was an example of this.
What was collectivization?