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100

This held many of the quotes and theories by Chinese communist leader Mao Tse-Tung and was required by Chinese citizens to be carried.

What is the "Little Red Book"?

100

What was the name of the Communist dictator of Cuba

Fidel Castro

100

Where North and South Korea agreed to split.

What is the 38th parallel?

100

This even took place between Cuba and the US in October 1962 and lasted for 13 days.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

100

Physical barrier that was made between two parts of a particular city that was seen as a symbol of the cold war.

What is the Berlin Wall?

100

This proxy war resulted in in a complete communist takeover by the north after almost 20 years of brutal fighting.

What is the Vietnam War?

200

Economic system grants all ownership & control of private businesses to the central government.

What is Communism?

200

The symbolic division between western and eastern Europe during the period of the Cold War.

What is the Iron Curtain?

200

Name of the alliance formed by the Soviets and Eastern Europe communist nations.

What is the Warsaw Pact?

200

Which two elements were discovered after flying a jet plane through a nuclear mushroom cloud?

What are 99 and 100, Einsteinium and Firmium

200

Senator McCarthy became a tireless crusader against Communism in the early 1950s, sparking a US period known as....

What is "the red scare"?

200

This Russian term is the policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information in the Soviet Union.

What is glasnost?

300

 This term, coined by Winston Churchill, described the ideological and physical barrier dividing Europe between East and West.

Who is Iron Curtain?

300

Organization of allied nations who joined forces in the West to support any threats of Communism.

What is NATO?

300

US plan that gave economic assistance to European countries after WWII.

What is the Marshall plan?

300

Theory where it was seen that if one nation were to fall to communism, other neighbouring nations would fall as well.

What is the Domino Theory or Domino Effect?

300

This 1948-1949 event saw the Soviet Union blockading West Berlin, leading to a massive airlift by the Western Allies.

What is the Berlin Blockade?

300

This was the event in which college students protested, demanding a democracy in China. You may recognise this from an image of a man with groceries standing in the way of several tanks. 

What is Tiananmen Square?

400

The constant need to build up more weapons than the Soviets in order to prevent nuclear war.

What is the Arms Race?

400

Name any TWO of the US presidents during the period of the Cold War.

Who was Truman, Eisenhower, JFK, LBJ, Nixon, Reagan?

400

US aeronautics program initiated by Reagan during the Cold War in order to compete with the USSR.

What is NASA?

400

First successful satellite in space.

What is Sputnik I?

400

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was charged with this duty.

Hunting down and accusing any potential communist of infiltrating into America.

400

This US foreign policy doctrine, announced in 1947, pledged to support countries resisting communist pressure.

What is the Truman Doctrine

500

President Eisenhower was concerned that orbiting satellites might be seen as violating national airspace, so he chose this research rocket over military missiles to launch the first U.S. satellite

Vanguard Rocket

500

This Soviet intelligence agency was responsible for gathering intelligence and conducting covert operations during the Cold War

What is the KGB


500

Which sports tool was smuggled aboard Apollo 15, and subsequently what sport did the astronaughts play using it?

What is a golf club and golf. 

500

Two stark similar conflicts saw the U.S. and its allies supporting South against communist North and its Communist allies

What is Vietnam and Korea

500

At the height of the Berlin tension, American and Soviet tanks rolled up within inchs of each other at which checkpoint?

What is Checkpoint Charlie

500

If you were a U.S. chemist or physisist during the 40s, you would have been taken from regular work and drafted into what project? 

The Manhatten Project