Conflicts
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
Korean War
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
The Rosenbergs?
The first person to go to space.
Yuri Gagarin
A collective defence treaty signed between the Soviet Union and seven other Eastern Bloc socialist republics of Central and Eastern Europe in May 1955,
Warsaw Pact
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.
Cuban Missile Crisis.
The Australian Communist party ban was held in which year?
1951
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
The Bay of Pigs?
What was the name of the artificial satellite the Soviet Union launch into space on October 4, 1947?
Sputnik?
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.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
The Vietnam War
Name the American policy implemented to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
The Truman Doctrine?
Tsar Bomba
The international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. Formed at the beginning of the war.
The United Nations (UN)?
The conflict between the USSR and US during the Cold War was known as an _____________ conflict.
An ideological conflict
The American plan to provide economic aid to Western Europe post-WWII was known as?
The Marshall Plan
Where in Australia did the British test their atomic weapons?
Maralinga
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Richard Nixon
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of space missions/ research
What is NASA?
In what year was the ANZUS treaty signed?
1961
What does SALT stand for?
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Treaty.
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
The US