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This air operation supplied West Berlin during a Soviet blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
This U.S.-led alliance formed in 1949 pledged mutual defense against communism.
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
This 1950–1953 war ended in a stalemate with a demilitarized zone between North and South.
What is the Korean War?
This failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba in 1961 aimed to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
This 1963 treaty banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater, and space.
What is the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty?
This wall was constructed in 1961 to stop East Germans from fleeing to the West.
What is the Berlin Wall?
The Soviet Union's military alliance formed in response to NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
This Cold War theory said if one country fell to communism, others nearby would follow.
What is the domino theory?
This 1962 confrontation brought the U.S. and USSR to the brink of nuclear war.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
This 1968 agreement aimed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to new countries.
What is the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty?
This country was split into West (democratic) and East (communist) after WWII.
What is Germany?
NATO and Warsaw Pact countries were known as these two opposing "blocs."
What are the capitalist bloc and the communist bloc?
The U.S. supported South Vietnam, while the North was backed by which two countries?
What are the Soviet Union and China?
This Soviet leader placed missiles in Cuba in response to U.S. missiles in Turkey.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
This grassroots movement against nuclear arms began in Japan and spread globally.
What is the antinuclear weapons movement?
Western Allies wanted Berlin to be free, but it was located deep within this Soviet zone.
What is East Germany?
This anti-communist alliance was formed in Southeast Asia in 1954.
What is SEATO (Southeast Asia Treaty Organization)?
This monk’s self-immolation in 1963 shocked the world and protested South Vietnam's government.
Who is Thich Quang Duc?
This U.S. president ordered a naval “quarantine” of Cuba.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This 1982 NYC protest saw about 1 million people rally against nuclear buildup.
What is the June 6, 1982 antinuclear demonstration?
Approximately how many East Germans were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall?
What is about 150 people?
This alliance was formed to stop the spread of communism in the Middle East.
What is CENTO (Central Treaty Organization)?
This Central American conflict saw U.S.-backed Contras fight socialist Sandinistas.
What is the Contra War in Nicaragua?
This 1963 innovation allowed direct communication between U.S. and Soviet leaders.
What is the Hot Line?
More than one-third of this country's population signed an anti-nuclear petition in 1955.
What is Japan?