Vocabulary
This is the term for naval ships preventing the passage of other ships to get to a location.
What is a blockade?
The Premier of the Soviet Union from the 30s to 1953
Who was Josef Stalin?
This was the location of the wall that the Soviets and East Germans erected in the 1960s
Berlin
Chairman Mao's guide to Life
What is "The Little Red Book."
This type of spyplane was shot down over Cuba during the Missile Crisis.
What is a U-2?
The name for the communist guerilla forces in South Vietnam
What was the Viet Cong?
This was the US plan to rebuild Europe after WW2.
What was the Marshall Plan?
The successor to Stalin
Who was Nikita Khruschev?
Forces under General MacArthur invaded this South Korean port to get behind the North Koreans.
What is Inchon?
This was the name of the herbicide used on Vietnamese jungles.
What was Agent Orange?
This was the name of the space mission that landed on the moon in 1969.
What was Apollo 11?
This many people escaped from East to West Germany before the Wall went up.
What is 2.6 million?
This is a term describing keeping someone from getting work because they were a suspected communist.
What is blackballing?
This was the dog that the Soviets send up in space.
Who was Laika?
This was the island nation where Russia put nuclear missiles pointing at the United States.
What is Cuba?
This is the name of the type of agreement between the combatants in the Korean War.
What is an armistice?
Nikita Khrushchev served as a Political Commissar at this famous battle.
What was the Battle of Stalingrad?
West Berlin was broken into this many sectors.
What is three (British, French, and American)?
This was the first satellite sent into successful orbit around the Earth.
What was Sputnik I?
This American flyer dropped candy on the West German children.
Who is Gayle Halvorson "The Candy Bomber"
This is the capital of South Korea.
What is Seoul?
This is the Soviet state where Khruschev was born.
What is the Ukraine?
This was the name of the Army lawyer who confronted McCarthy.
Who was Joseph Welch?
This was the name for the first set of spaceships that the US sent into orbit in the early 1960s.
What was Mercury?
This was what Iranian students stormed in Iran in 1979.
He was President of the United States during the Iran Hostage Crisis.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
This was Joseph McCarthy's home state.
What is Wisconsin?
The man who was elected President after Harry Truman.
Who was Dwight David Eisenhower?
This was the first man in space.
Who was Yuri Gargarin?
This was the name of the failed Iranian hostage rescue mission carried out by the United States.
What was Operation Eagle Claw.