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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 was the year the arms race officially started?

What is 1949? 
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100

This was the name of the alliance that was created by Stalin in response to NATO.

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.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300

This is the name of the Soviets first nuclear bomb.

What is First Lightning.

300

NASA took victory over the USSR during the Space Race by launching ____.

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 acronym MAD stands for?

What is Mutually assured destruction.

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

Winston Churchill signified the dived within Europe with this speech?

What is Iron Curtain?

500

I am the technology that was developed, which made the space race possible.

What are ICBMs?

500

This was the first mamal launched into space by the Soviet Union

Who is Laika the dog. 

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?