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This 1950–1953 war was an early military test of U.S. containment policy in Asia.

What is the Korean War?

100

What country was trying to contain communism?

What is the U.S. ?

100

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

This physical structure in Germany became the most famous symbol of the Iron Curtain.

What is the Berlin Wall?

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

The total number of nuclear bombs detonated during war.

TWO

(Hiroshima & Nagasaki) 

200

This was the first Soviet satellite launched into space in 1957, escalating fears of Soviet missile capabilities.

What is Sputnik?

200

Name 3 Cold War Era presidents.

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford Carter, Reagan, Bush (Sr.)

300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
300

This U.S. President first introduced the policy of containment in 1947.

Who was Harry Truman?

300

This term describes the military strategy where both sides have enough nuclear weapons to destroy each other.

What is Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)?

300

This term describes the Cold War competition between the U.S. and USSR to achieve superior spaceflight capabilities.

The Space Race

300

This policy, introduced under President Nixon, aimed to reduce tensions between the U.S. and the USSR during the 1970s.

What is détente?

400

The leader of the North Vietnamese army.

Ho Chi Minh

400

This failed 1961 U.S. invasion of Cuba aimed to stop the spread of communism near American shores.

What was the Bay of Pigs?

400

This 1962 crisis brought the U.S. and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

400

This Apollo mission achieved the first successful moon landing in July 1969.

Apollo 11

400

The United States agency created in 1958, as a direct result of the Soviet's taking the lead in the SPACE RACE.

What is NASA?

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

Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but never could prove anything. This is known as: 

McCarthyism (Red Scare)

500

This type of weapon, first tested by the U.S. in 1952, was far more powerful than the atomic bomb.

What is the HYDROGEN BOMB?

500

This American president famously promised to land a man on the moon before the decade was out.

Who was John F. Kennedy?

500

When a group of people gather, often with signs, to show their disagreement with the way things are going.

What is PROTEST?