USA
Start Cold War
Soviet Union
Middle Cold War
End Cold War
100

This President escalated the Vietnam war and announced there would be no communism in the Western Hemisphere to avoid “another Cuba”

Lyndon B. Johnson

100

This new weapon development escalated the Cold War, especially since the atomic bombs detonated in two Japanese cities.

hydrogen bomb

100

In what year did the Soviet Union fall?

1991

100

This photo depicts a protest from which international social movement that gained momentum during the Cold War? 

Antinuclear weapons movement

100

The fall of which world power ended the Cold War?

Soviet Union

200

Which U.S. president managed the Cuban Missile Crisis, established the Peace Corps to counter Soviet influence, and initiated the Alliance for Progress?

John F. Kennedy

200

This political alliance was developed to oppose NATO developed during the Cold War in 1955.



Warsaw Pact

200

Which part of the German capital of Berlin was given to the Soviet Union after the Potsdam Agreement and eventually led to the Berlin Blockade?

East Berlin

200

This was the first bilateral agreement between the U.S. & the USSR & the first Cold War agreement aimed at addressing nuclear dangers. 

Hot Line

200

This Polish politician helped formulate the Warsaw Pact. He was later imprisoned and helped raise awareness for the Soviet Union until the end of the war.

Władysław Gomułka

300

What University is credited to research the use of Atomic bombs, as well as aiding the Department of Defense against the Soviet Union

Kent State University

300

The _____ was the division between the two political/military alliances, NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Iron Curtain

300

What is happening in this picture


The Berlin Air Lift

300

The Bay of Pigs was a failed operation in 1961 authorized by John F. Kennedy to overthrow which Cuban leader?

Fidel Castro

300

What Soviet policy, meaning “restructuring,” was a pivotal 1980s initiative by Mikhail Gorbachev to decentralize the country & reform its stagnant economy? (Hint: it ultimately contributed to the USSR’s collapse.)

perestroika

400

This president increased military budget by 35% an formulated the INF treaty in 1987 and also lead the Reykjavík Summit

Ronald Reagan

400

The US president,_____ ,said that the US would support any free nation resisting communist takeover under the _____. He also utilized the _____ to aid the rebuilding of Western Europe. Additionally, ____ was formed during his presidency that formed a Western military alliance. He also ordered the ____ to deliver necessary items to Berlin after the Soviets blocked it off. Finally, he led the US into the ______ which illuminated the US’s effort to prevent communist expansion.

Harry Truman, The Truman Doctrine, The Marshall Plan, NATO, Berlin Airlift, and Korean War

400

What leader of the Soviet Union oversaw the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and was the first leader after Stalin?

Nikita Khrushchev

400

The Vietnam War was an example of what kind of conflict during the Cold War?

proxy war (a regional conflict where the U.S. & USSR supported opposing sides to gain influence without direct confrontation & fighting)

400

What Soviet policy, meaning “openness,” was a 1980s initiative by Mikhail Gorbachev to increase transparency, reduce media censorship, & allow freedom of expression?

glasnost

500

What is this image? 

The liberation of Seoul at the end of the Korean War

500

This US president said, "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed," during his “Chance for Peace” speech in 1953.

Dwight Eisenhower

500

What was the name of the world’s first artificial satellite, which was launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 and triggered the Space Race?

Sputnik

500

This 1963 treaty (signed by the US, UK, & Germany) prohibits nuclear tests in the atmosphere, underwater, & outer space, but permits underground testing.

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

500

Which U.S. president said this in 1987? "General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

Ronald Reagan