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This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist which ended in the country being divided at the 38th parallel

What is the Korean War?

100

What country was trying to contain communism?

What is the U.S. ?

100

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization

What is NATO?

100

What two major countries 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)?

200

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 in Cuba.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.

200

What country was trying to spread communism?

What is the USSR?

200

The alliance of Soviet nations with a goal of spreading communism

What is Warsaw Pact?

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, where Ho Chi Minh was a leader?

What is the Vietnam War?

300

This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947 by Truman.

What is containment

300

This alliance still exists today and the USA is a leading member ... for now....

What is NATO?

300
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
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
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
500

The geography surrounding an event and how and or why the geography impacted the event

What is geographic context?

500

When NATO and Warsaw Pact competing against each other but never fought directly.

 What is Cold War?

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?