Conflicts
The was the first major conflict between the West and communist.
What is the Korean War?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the United States?
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
Who are US and USSR?
WW2 began because this country was invaded on September 1, 1939.
What is Poland?
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is sputnik?
These two cities were bombed at the end of WW2 using the atomic bomb
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
This was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is the U2?
What is Afghanistan?
These pilots mostly Black and Dominican fought in WW2 having a enormous impact on the outcome of the war, despite racial bigotry
Who are the Tuskegee Airmen?
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is containment?
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
This wall fell in________and is known as the __________wall.
What is 1991 and the Berlin Wall?
This island was bombed on December 7, 1941 prompting the United States to enter WW2
What is Pearl Harbor?
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945-1991?
As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as
What is the red scare?
This is the period of time in which the US and USSR agreed to limit nuclear weapons.
What is Detente?
Who is Gorbachev?
This country became an imperial nation, causing devastation throughout much of Asia.
What is Japan?