Nuclear Bomb
United States detonated two atomic bombs over these Japanese cities.
What was Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
First man to walk on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
33rd president of the United States, serving from 1945 to 1953
Who was Harry Truman?
Flew food and supplies to West Berlin after Stalin closed all roads/routes that led into the city. Flew a total of 2.3 million tons total.
What was Berlin Airlift?
The number of days the Cuban Missile Crisis tension lasted before resolution.
What is 13 days?
The name for the research and development program for the atomic bomb in the United States.
October 4, 1957, the Russians placed the first successful satellite into orbit.
What was Sputnik I?
Georgian revolutionary and Soviet politician who led the Soviet Union from the mid–1920s until 1953
Who was Joseph Stalin?
Proposed by George F. Kennan in February 1946, this policy involved taking measures to prevent the extension of communism
Conflict that ended with the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975.
What is the Vietnam War?
The date that the USSR tests their first nuclear weapon at a test site in Kazakhstan?
What was August 29, 1949?
In 1967 in US faced a tragedy when a flash fire swept through this command module during a launch rehearsal test. The three men inside perished despite the best efforts of the ground crew.
What was Apollo I?
Statesman who was responsible for the de-Stalinization of the Soviet Union and for backing the progress of the early Soviet space program.
Who was Nikita Khrushchev?
The theory held that communism in one nation would spread communism into neighboring nations.
What is Domino Theory?
In May 1962, Khrushchev began to ship ballistic missiles to this country.
What is Cuba?
Two individuals who were especially important in the effort to create the nuclear bomb.
Who was Physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer and Army Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves.
April 12, 1961 he became the first man to orbit the Earth in the spacecraft Vostok I.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008.
Who was Fidel Castro?
The name given to the Eastern European nations that were under the control of the Soviet Union.
What was Satellite Nations?
The term "Cold War" was first coined by this author.
Who is George Orwell?
Name of the specific island that was essentially deleted after the US tested the first H-Bomb “Ivy Mike" in the Pacific.
What was Elugelab?
First living creatures intentionally sent into space.
What are fruit flies?
On March 5, 1946, he delivered the line "from Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an Iron Curtain has descended across the Continent" at his address to Westminster College.
Who was Winston Churchill?
Divides communist North Korea and Democratic South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel or DMZ?
Type of plane that discovered Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is a U-2 plane?