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100
The first direct military conflict of the Cold War.
What is the Korean War?
100
This doctrine pushed for the containment of communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100

The name of the spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.



What is U2?

100

President of the United States when man landed on the moon.

Who is John F. Kennedy?
100

This plan, created in June 1947, would supply $3 billion to Western European aid, and was a tremendous success.

What is the Marshall Plan?
200
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
200
This military alliance served to bypass the United Nations' Security Council veto power
What is NATO?
200
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947.


What is Sputnik?
200

The 1947 National Security Act set up this agency to collect information on foreign governments, corporations, and individuals for government purposes such as safety.

What is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
300
This event was immediately followed by the creation of the Warsaw Pact.
What is the Berlin Blockade?
300
These two policies were put in place to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan?
300

This Canadian event dealt with the passing of secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union through spies and the beginning of the Red Scare.


What is the Igor Gouzenko Case?


300
The name and type of the first creature to be launched into space.
What is Laika the Dog?
300
The international organization's aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
The Cold War was largely a struggle between these two ideas:
What is capitalism/communism?
400

This "House", previously used to hunt down former Nazis in the US, was reactivated during the Cold War to reveal American communists.

What is the House Un-American Activities Commitee (HUAC)?

400
This president was responsible for 'ending' the Korean War and establishing the Interstate Highway System. 
What is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
400
President of the United States when the first man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400

“To keep the Russians out, the Americans in, and the Germans down" - 1st Secretary General of ______

What is NATO?
500
The Cold War spanned this time period
What is 1945 to 1991?
500

This general was removed from command when he failed to follow President Truman's orders in the Korean War. He was pushing for dropping the bomb during the war.

What is Douglas MacArthur?
500

This proposed missile defense system intended to protect the united states from nuclear attack with advanced weapons, such as nuclear x-ray lasers and space-based missile systems.

What is STAR WARS? or Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)? 

500

NASA rebutted the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.

What is Apollo 11?

500

The principal policy-making committee of the Communist Party.

What is Politburo?