General
When did the Cold War begin?
After WWII
Which country put the first man in space?
USSR
What was the main competition in which the USA and USSR competed?
Olympics
What kind of leader was Josef Stalin?
Totalitarian
Why did the USSR ally with Cuba?
Cuba gave them a strategic and geographic advantage
What was the first satellite to orbit the Earth?
Sputnik
True or false: The "Miracle on Ice" was a legendary ice skating race where the USA upset the USSR.
False
Type of economic system in which the people control the means of production.
Capitalism
What does the "hammer and sickle" represent?
Industry and farming
The USA won the space race by being the first to...
Land on the moon
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Why did the USA men's basketball team not accept their 1972 basketball silver medal?
The USSR won in controversial fashion; they were given three chances to win the game
Type of economic system in which the government controls the means of production.
Communism
What does the USSR stand for?
United Soviet Socialist Republics
Who promised the USA would go to the moon before the end of the 1960s?
JFK
Why did the USA boycott the 1980 Olympics?
The Olympics were in Moscow and the USSR had just invaded Afghanistan
True of false: Wealth is evenly distributed in capitalism.
False
MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction
What was the name of the monkey the USA sent to space?
HAM
What sports was the "Blood in the Water" match?
Water polo
The "Red Scare" was a fear of...
Communism
Name three countries in which a "war by proxy" was fought in.
Korea
Laos
Vietnam
Cambodia