Cold War 1
Leader of the Soviet Union following WWII.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
President after FDR
Who is Harry S. Truman?
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S.?
Who was the president after Truman?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
Title given to any war where no direct fighting occurs between the two countries.
What is a cold war?
The idea of keeping communism from spreading.
What is Containment?
Name the first man to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What is the name of the U.S. space agency?
What is NASA?
The leader of North Vietnam through most of the Vietnam War.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Churchill's noted description of this barrier across the continent of Europe following World War II.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Name the idea that says if one nation fell to communism, its neighbors would soon fall, too.
What is the Domino Theory?
Who was the U.S. General in the Korean War that President Truman fired for going behind his back?
Who is Douglas MacArthur?
Years for the start and end of the Cold War?
What is approximately 1945 - 1990?
Name the massive economic aid plan for Europe to help it recover from war damage.
What is the Marshall Plan?
Who was the U.S. President that was assassinated during the Cold War?
Who is John F. Kennedy?
This describes the constant need to build up more weapons than your enemy in order to prevent nuclear war.
What is the Arms Race?
This multinational organization was created for the purpose of responding jointly in case of attack in Western Europe.
Daily Double: Name 5 of the original member countries of this organization.
What is NATO?
United States, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Holland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Luxembourg, and West Germany
Name the parallel that the North and South Korea are split at?
What is the 38th parallel?
Name the parallel that North and South Vietnam were split at?
What is the 17th parallel?
Name the first woman in space.
Who is Sally Ride?
Name the satellite that the Soviet Union sent into space that became the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
What is Sputnik I?
Name the road network that North Vietnamese troops used to travel during the war.
What is the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What was the name of the shooting that took place on a college campus in the U.S. in 1970?
What is the Kent State Massacre?
Who was the U.S. President when the cease-fire ended military combat in Korea?
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
What were the years of actual fighting during the Korean War?
What is 1950-1953?
This idea created by a U.S. President was created after communism began to threaten the world.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What were the years of the Vietnam War?
What is 1954-1973?
Name the country the U.S. assisted at the beginning of the Vietnam War?
What is France?
Name two of the five satellite nations of the Soviet Union.
What are Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria?