Space Race
The first man to walk on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Wars waged on this political ideology.
What is Communism?
Communist dictator of the Soviet Union.
Who is Joseph Stalin?
45 year period of proxy wars, competitions and high tensions between the "West" and the Soviet Union.
What is the Cold War?
The second man to walk on the moon.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
U.S. President responsible for authorizing the dropping of the first atomic bombs.
Who is Harry Truman?
Dividing coordinate between North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
North Vietnamese leader who fueled the rebellion against France and the Americans.
Who is Ho Chi Minh?
Global peacekeeping organization charted in 1945 with 193 current member states.
What is the United Nations?
First satellite in space.
Meaning behind M.A.D?
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
Group of communist rebels who fought in the South during the Vietnam war.
Who are the VietCong?
American president responsible for sending half a million troops to Vietnam between 1965-1968.
Who is Richard Nixon?
An invisible barrier dividing Soviet-controlled East Europe and democratic run West Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
Program designed to put astronauts on the moon.
What is the Apollo program?
Term to describe the US and USSR strategic approach to the Cold War
What is brinkmanship?
U.S. exit strategy for the Vietnam war by propping up the South Vietnam government and withdrawing U.S. troops.
What is Vietnamization?
Communist Cuban dictator who was target of the U.S. failed Bay of Pigs invasion.
Who is Fidel Castro?
Alliance created to counter the military alliance by the West.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
Term the Soviets use to describe their spacemen.
Who are cosmonauts?
Negotiations held to minimize nuclear weapon manufacturing in the US and USSR.
What are the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks?
Corrupt leader of South Vietnam during the war.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
Chinese leader during the Civil War and communist revolution of the mid 90s.
Who is Mao Zedong?
Year and event that ended the Cold War.
What is the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991?