Vietnam
The military would raise troops through the use of a _______ though students attending universities would receive examptions.
What is a draft?
The US would catch up and win the Space Race by landing the first man on the ______?
What is the moon?
German city that was a scene of conflict between the US and USSR and would be divided by a wall.
What is Berlin?
The Soviet Union sought to install nuclear missiles in this island nation.
What is Cuba?
War fought over this peninsula which ended in a cease fire and the country divided between a communist controlled North and a Western aligned South.
What is Korea?
University that saw four students killed during an antiwar protest.
What is Kent State?
US president who proposed to (and did) land a man on the moon within a decade.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Uncle Wiggle Wings was one of the American pilots who delivered supplies in this operation.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
Idea that war between the Soviet Union and United States would not occur because of the nuclear weapons and military strength of both countries.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
Senator who led House of UnAmerican Activities investigation of suspected communists.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Offensive operation by the North Vietnamese which shattered the illusion that the United States was on the brink of winning the war.
What is the Tet Offensive?
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first man to achieve this.
What is space flight?
US sponsored plan to help Western European allies rebuild Post-War and to promote self determination.
What is the Marshall plan?
Cuban leader during the Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Soviet alliance that sought to counter NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Massacre of civilians by US military forces that was initially covered up but later became public knowledge.
What is My Lai Massacre?
First man to walk on the moon taking, "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
Who is Neal Armstrong?
Description by Winston Churchill of the division between the democracies of Western Europe and the Communist aligned East.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Treaty between the United States and Soviet Union limiting nuclear missiles.
What is the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I and SALT II?)
Failed invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles and supported by the United States.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
Policy of President Nixon to turn Vietnam War over to the Vietnamese.
What is Vietnamization?
This satellite was the first ever to be launched and saw the Soviets take the lead in the Space Race.
What is Sputnik?
Soviet policy that allowed some free market business and capitalist economic reforms.
What is perestroika?
The United States agreed not to invade Cuba and to remove missiles from this nation in exchange for Soviets removing missile installations from Cuba.
What is Turkey?
Soviet invasion of this country brought an end to the policy of Detente.
What is Afghanistan?