Leaders & Countries
Who was the leader of the Vietnam during the Cold War
Ho Chi Minh
What was the name of the wall that divided East and West Berlin?
The Berlin Wall
What country launched the first satellite into space?
USSR
What type of drills did American students practice in case of a nuclear attack?
(Answer: Duck and Cover drills)
What type of government did the U.S. support during the Cold War?
Democracy
Who was the U.S. President at the start of the Cold War?
Truman
What 13-day event in 1962 brought the U.S. and USSR close to nuclear war?
The Cuban Missile Crisis
What was the name of the first satellite?
Sputnik
Senator known for accusing Americans of being communists without evidence?
Joseph McCarthy
What type of economic system is based on private ownership and free markets?
Capitalism
What two countries were the main enemies during the Cold War?
United States and Soviet Union
What was the name of the competition between the U.S. and USSR to build more weapons?
The Arms Race
Who was the first human to travel into space?
A group of entertainment figures thought to have involvement with Communism
The Hollywood 10
What political and economic system was followed by the USSR?
Communism
Who Killed Kennedy?
Oswald
What event involved U.S. and British planes dropping supplies into a blocked city?
The Berlin Airlift
Who was the first American to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
What was the "Red Scare" in the United States?
Fear of communism spreading in America
What U.S. policy promised money and military to countries resisting communism?
Truman Doctrine.
Which country split into East and West after World War II, becoming a major Cold War hotspot?
Germany
What war in Asia was fought to stop the spread of communism, with no clear winner? Starts with a K...
The Korean War
What was the name of the U.S. space program that landed astronauts on the Moon?
Apollo
The Lavender Scare was an event where people targeted which groups of individuals in the government? Why?
LGBTQ+ - They thought if they can hide their identity, the could hide they were communists.
What was the U.S military Alliance
NATO