Cold War
Term used to describe a conflict in which the USA and Soviet Union do not fight each other directly, but they are at war
What is The Cold War?
How did the Korean war begin?
What is North Korea invaded South Korea?
This is where the first atomic bombs were set off, the first act of the cold war
What is Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
Was there ever a formal declaration of war in Vietnam, in which the President spoke to Congress asking them to vote to declare war?
What is no? The USA never formally declared war
This President did not want to go to war with the Soviet Union, but to Contain it. This Doctrine is named after him.
Who is Harry Truman, creator of The Truman Doctrine
This is the place where the USA invaded Cuba when it decided to try to overthrow the Cuban Communist government
What is The Bay of Pigs?
What was the geographical point on the globe dividing line between Communist North Korea and Capitalist South Korea?
What is the 38th parallel?
These were built by the government so that people could evacuate cities quickly after they were bombed in a nuclear war
What are The Interstate Highways?
Why were young people the most concerned about the war and the most motivated to protest it?
What is the draft?
This President said that we could send a man to the moon in less than 10 years and he turned out to be right
Who is President John F Kennedy?
This is where the Soviets built a wall to keep the East Germans and others from the Soviet bloc from going into West Germany
What is The Berlin Wall?
This military alliance was formed to protect Western Europe and the West from invasion by the Soviet Union
What is NATO the North Atlantic Treaty Organization?
What were young children and students told to do in the 1952 civil defense film to protect themselves from the atomic bomb?
What is Duck and Cover?
What is the Pentagon Papers?
This President is responsible for continuing the war in Vietnam so he would "not be the first President to lose a war."
Who is Richard Nixon?
This economic (not military) aid program to rebuild Europe was put in place so that desperate starving people would be less likely to see Communism as the answer
What is The Marshall Plan?
After the USA succeeded in inventing the atomic bomb, we developed another more powerful type of atomic weapon. What was it called?
What is the Hydrogen bomb?
These were the places Americans built to live underground for weeks after they were attacked by nuclear weapons
What are Fallout Shelters?
US presidents decided to send troops into Vietnam because according to this theory if Vietnam fell to Communism, others would follow
What was The Domino Theory?
This President was shot and killed by Lee Harvey Oswald, but many believed that others, including the CIA, the mob, the Soviets, and the Cubans had to have been involved
What was John F Kennedy?
After the end of World War II, Stalin refused to allow food and medicines to enter this city and the USA sent planes 24 hours a day to relieve the hunger of the people of this city. What was this called?
What is the Berlin Blockade?
This military leader was a popular General in Europe during World War II but he went a step too far and was fired after he said we should use nuclear weapons against China without asking the President
Who is General Douglas MacArthur?
This is the man who refused to launch the Soviet nuclear torpedo that might have been the first shot in a nuclear war between the USA and Soviet Union
Who is VassilyArkhipov, the Soviet officer who was the third man who refused to OK missile launch?
After Americans saw photos and news reporting from this protest, in which National Guardsmen shot 4 dead and 9 wounded, 70% of the country no longer supported the Vietnam War
What is The Kent State Massacre
This man led the Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb, but he was later accused of being a Communist and lost his security clearance.
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer?