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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

What conflict involved the Mujahideen vs. the Communist Government?

Soviet-Afghan War

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

The organization that was composed of the USSR and its satellite states, formed in Eastern Europe

What is the Warsaw Pact

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 by lending money to European nations

What is the Truman Doctrine/Marshall Plan

300
The resolution that was passed by the U.S. congress gave President Johnson the power to use all military means to protect South Korea from communism.
What is The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
300

What was the Iron Curtain?

Invisible wall of communism that was difficult to penetrate by the U.N. and Western Europe.

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 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

Leader of the Soviet Union towards the end of the Cold War who preached Glasnost and Peirestroika

Michael Gorbachev

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

This event forced the Allied troops to deliver goods to the citizens of this German city

What is the Berlin Blockade/Berlin Airlift

500

I am the term for what the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.

What is nuclear proliferation/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?