1950s
The idea that if one country fell to communism, all surrounding countries would also fall.
What is the domino theory?
The country that the United States was involved in a war in throughout the decade.
What is Vietnam?
The country in which an Islamic Revolution took place in 1979.
What is Iran?
The US President from 1980-1988.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What is the Berlin Wall?
The idea that if one country launched nuclear missiles, their opponent would also launch missiles, and both sides would be obliterated.
What is mutually assured destruction?
The name given to the United States failed attempt at overthrowing Fidel Castro's government in Cuba.
What is the Bay of Pigs invasion?
The term for "easing of tensions between nations"
What is detente?
The year in which the Berlin Wall fell.
What is 1989?
The term given to the policy for how the United States and China attempted to improve relations in the 1970s.
What is Ping-Pong Diplomacy?
The country in which the United States got involved in a war in from 1950-1953.
What is Korea?
The American citizens' perspective on war greatly changed in the 1960s due to the significant increase in this form of media.
What is television?
The agreement between Israel and Egypt made in 1978 that was mediated by the United States.
What are the Camp David Accords?
The country that the Soviet Union invaded and was involved in a war in throughout the decade.
What is Afghanistan?
The incident that led the United States to begin sending ground troops into Vietnam.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
Who is Mao Zedong?
The President of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
The US President that was the first to set foot in China since the Chinese Communist Revolution.
Who is Richard Nixon?
The policies of "openness" and "restructuring" implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Soviet Union.
What are Glasnost and Perestroika?
The name given to the leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
What is the Ayatollah?
The United States and Great Britain helped to conduct a coup in this country in 1953.
What is Iran?
The name of the US space mission to the moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11?
The name of the first US-Soviet crewed space flight in 1975.
What is Apollo-Soyuz?
The group that Osama Bin Laden was a member of during the 1980s.
What is the Mujahideen?
The first President of the Russian Federation.
Who is Boris Yeltsin?