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

What is the Korean War?

100

A peace conference that occurred from the 17th of July to the 2nd of August, 1945. During this peace conference it was decided that Germany would be split into four zones, occupied by the allies. 

What is the Potsdam Peace Conference?

100

Understanding that using or retaliating with atomic or nuclear bombs will cause the complete annihilation of both the attacker and defender.

What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?

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The first dog sent to space.

Who is Laika?

100

The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative body who looked for communist in the U.S.

What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?

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
A nuclear bomb dropped on Hiroshima at the end of WW2.

What is 'little boy'?

200

The first atomic bomb tested by the Soviet Union on the 29th August 1949.

What is First Lightning?

200

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

What is Sputnik?

200

A group of writers and directors that refused to cooperate with investigations and were subsequentially arrested and imprisoned for 12 months.

What is the Hollywood 10?

300

A key Cold War conflict that lasted from the 1st of November, 1955 to the 30th of April, 1975. 

What is the Vietnam War?

300

Roosevelt, Stalin and Churchill. 

Who were the key leaders at Yalta?

300

The largest nuclear bomb ever detonated.

What is TSAR bomba?

300

Approximately 600 million.

How many people watched the moon landing?

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)?
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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 threat of nuclear warfare to achieve international goals.

What is atomic diplomacy?

400

A film that toured the US in 1952, reaching over one million people. It was later implemented in schools and TV, increasing its audience to tens of millions. 

What is 'duck and cover'?

400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400

5th of March, 1953

What is the date Stalin died?

500

1947 to 1991

When did the Cold War start and end?

500

A speech delivered by Winston Churchill on the 5th of March, 1946, in Fulton Missouri. 

What is the Iron Curtain speech?

500

Missiles with a nuclear warhead that can be fired at targets on the other side of the globe.

What are Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles?

500

The first country to send a man into space.

What is the USSR?

500

The leader of the USSR when it collapsed; he implemented a series of policies that eventually lead to dismantling the communist regime. 

Who is Gorbachev?