Berlin Wall
What year was the Berlin Wall built?
1961
What years were the Korean War?
1950-1953
What time period was the Vietnam War?
1955-1975
What are Soviet astronauts called?
cosmonauts
True or Flase/ The Bay of Pigs was a major cause of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
True
The amount of East Germans that fled to West Berlin.
3 million
Who was fighting in the Korean War?
North Koreans vs. United Nations.
Who lost the Vietnam War?
The US lost the Vietnam War.
What was the Soviet spacecraft called that first orbited the Earth?
Vostok I
What were the dates of the Cuban Missile Crisis?
October 16th, 1962- October 28th, 1962
How did the Berlin Wall change over time?
Replaced it with a concrete wall.
Who was the head of the communist state?
Mao Zedong
What defined the border between North Vietnam and South Vietnam?
The 17th parallel
What year did the joint mission between the US and Soviets happen?
1975
Who did the Soviet Union place missiles on?
The island of Cuba.
How did the Berlin Wall impact Berliner’s
Berliner’s weren’t able to move throughout the city freely.
Who won the Korean War?
No one
What United States president decided to pull American troops out of Vietnam?
Richard Nixon
What was the Space Race?
A competition between the United States and Soviet Union for who could go to Space first.
The Soviet Union used what strategy?
Maskirovka
The reasoning the East German government gave for the creations of the Berlin Wall
East German government claimed the wall was built to protect East Germany from western aggression.
What was the dividing line that separates North and South Korea?
The 38th parallel
What Vietnamese city was renamed to Ho Chi Minh City after the leader of North Vietnam after the war was over?
Saigon
What program helped to develop a lot of the technology for the Apollo program?
Gemini
What did the US gain evidence from?
Photographs