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The year the Cold War started

1945

100
The year that the Red Scare began.

1950

100

What the U.S and Russia were building in competition of each other.

What are nuclear weapons?

100
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?
200

The Soviets blocked access to this city, so the US decided to airlift supplies instead of losing the city to the Soviets.

Berlin

200

The event that targeted suspected communists, civil rights activists, gay Americans, and more.

The Red Scare

200

A different type of race that started after the launching of Sputnik.

The Space Race

200
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)?
300
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.
300

This policy said that the US should support any countries that might become communist

What is the Truman Doctrine?

300

The term that explains how nuclear weapons were a deterrent that helped prevent nuclear attacks.

Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)

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

This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist

What is the Korean War?

400

The Marshall Plan, the Truman Doctrine, and the Korean War can all be labeled forms of this

What is Containment?

400

The married couple who were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.

Who are the Rosenbergs?

400

The mutual defense alliance for the Soviet bloc.

The Warsaw Pact

500

The name of the invasion where JFK sent Cuban exiles to try to overthrow Castro

Bay of Pigs

500

The name of the Wisconsin Senator who kicked off the Red Scare.

Joseph McCarthy

500

The total number of nuclear weapons between the US and Soviet Union at the peak of the Cold War. (I will take any answer within the estimated range).

60-70,000

500
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)?