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100
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

This was the nickname given to the program the US was working on to shoot down nuclear weapons.

What is Star Wars?

100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100

The was the name of the spy organization of the USSR.

What was the KGB?

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
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
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 were the nuclear weapons called that the US installed in Western Europe?

What are ICBMs?

300

NASA competed with  the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____ which landed on the moon.

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

HINT: It's the name of an Irish Rock Band

What is U-2?

400

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

Who is Richard Nixon?

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

What two countries remained Democratic because of the Truman Doctrine?

What is Turkey and Greece?

500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
500
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?