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This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism?
What is the U.S. ?
100
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
The agency under the United States government that was developed in 1958 and is in charge of the nation's public space?
What is NASA?
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
What was the communist country that U.S. was most afraid of?
What is the USSR?
200

Direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
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)?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
300

NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____ which successfully landed on the moon and returned to Earth.

What is Apollo 11?

300
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.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and th US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
400
The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the fight against communism can be labeled forms of this
What is Containment?
400

The principle founded on the notion that a nuclear attack by one superpower would be met with an overwhelming nuclear counterattack such that both the attacker and the defender would be annihilated.

What is mutually assured destruction?

400

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

Who is Richard Nixon?

400
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 Central Intelligence Agency CIA?
500
What years did the Cold War start and end.
What is 1945, 1991
500

Senator _______________ spread suspicion about people being communists but nevercould prove anything. In the end he was censored by the Senate.

Who is Joseph McCarthy?

500
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.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500

Which President established the goal that the US would put a man on the moon by the end of the decade?

Who is John F Kennedy?

500
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?