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This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist

What is the Korean War?

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What country was trying to contain communism?

What is the U.S. ?

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The competition to build the most powerful weapons 

ArmsArms race

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

What is the U.S. and the USSR?

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The Korean War began when....


North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel

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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.

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What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?

What is the USSR?

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These two nations were in competition to develop the most powerful nuclear weapons

What is the United States and the Soviet Union

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

What is Sputnik?

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It is the organization that constitutes a system of collective defense whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.

What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?

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What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?

What is the Vietnam War?

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This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
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When Nikita Khrushchev was leader of the Soviet Union, the Soviets and the United States engaged in an arms race. What did this involve?



What  is building powerful weapons in case of a war

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

What is Apollo 11?

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Where is North and South Korea Divided

What is the 38th Parallel?

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One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?

What is ideological conflict?

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The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
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This type bomb was developed after the Atomic bomb and is said to be 1,000 time more powerful.

What is the hydrogen bomb?

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

Who is JFK?

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

What is NASA?

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What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
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Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but nevercould prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.
What is Censored?
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I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.

What are nuclear weapons?

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The first country to photograph the Earth from space.

What is the U.S.?

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The tension between the United States and the Soviet Union that many feared could lead to a nuclear war was called the



What is the cold war?