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Conflict caused by feuding ideologies within one country. This split the country in half and it remains this way today

What is the Korean War?

100

What major country was trying to contain communism?

What is the U.S. ?

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We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
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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.
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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

This conflict occurred after the USSR was dissatisfied with the allied countries in this part of Germany. 

What is the Berlin Blockade 

300

This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in two major trade port countries.

What is the Truman Doctrine?

300

What were the two terms that the US agreed to in order to stop the Cuban Missile Crisis? 

What is remove arms from Turkey and Italy &  never invade Cuba?

300

This saying was a rally cry for America when we had our first spacewalk.

What is " One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind"?

300

This organization of communist countries was made in response to West Germany joining NATO 

What is the Warsaw Pact? 

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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 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.
What is U-2?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
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
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Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. This hysteria is now known as  

What is McCarthyism?

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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?