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Containment
Arms Race
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Space Race
100
What was the first major armed conflict between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R's allies during the Cold War?
Korean War
100
What country was trying to contain communism during the Cold War?
United States of America
100
The only nuclear weapon to be used in combat was used on which country during WWII?
Japan
100
Who was president during the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis?
John F. Kennedy
100

What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?

USA and USSR
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 what dilemma?

Cuban Missile Crisis
200
What country was trying to spread communism during the Cold War?
U.S.S.R. or Soviet Union
200

What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?

Bay of Pigs
200
Which president gave a famous speech at the Berlin Wall asking the leader of the Soviet Union to tear down the wall?
Ronald Reagan
200

The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?

Sputnik
300
What conflict was fought mostly in dense jungle, with traps and tunnels, and that ended in the withdrawal of US troops?
Vietnam War
300

What doctrine (or policy) was created to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.

Truman Doctrine
300

The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.

Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
300
Who was the first man on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
300

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

Apollo 11
400
In what city was a wall built that divided the city between communism and capitalism and was a symbol of the Cold War?
Berlin
400

The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this

Containment
400

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

U-2
400
I am a Korean War general who disobeyed orders from my president and then spoke out against him after the war which got me fired.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur
400
President of the United States when the first man landed on the moon.
Richard Nixon
500
What years did the Cold War start and end?
1945, 1991
500
Which two armed conflicts are examples of ways the United States tried to contain communism during the Cold War?
Korean War and Vietnam War
500

I am what the U.S and Soviet Union were building in competition of each other.

nuclear weapons
500
I was president when the troops with withdrawn from the Vietnam War.
Richard Nixon
500

The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?

NASA