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To Infinity and Beyond: Satellites
Oh, No You Didn't!
Seeing Red
First Aid
It is all about US and them
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In 1989, the government of East Germany ordered the tearing down of one of the last symbols of the Cold War
What is Berlin Wall
100
How did President Carter protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
What is canceling U.S. participation in the 1980 Olympic Games
100
What did the Warsaw Pact do?
What is create a military alliance between the Soviet Union and various Eastern European nations
100
The Truman Doctrine stated that the U.S. would provide ________ to nations threatened by Communist expansion
What is money
100
The Truman Doctrine was a response to conflict in what country?
What is Greece
200
What country had not been a satellite of the Soviet Union, but was an active communist country in Eastern Europe
What is Yugoslavia
200
The policy that the Soviet Union had the right to intervene if communism was threatened in another Communist nation
What is Brezhnev Doctrine
200
U.S. fears about the spread of communism were increased when _______ became a Communist nation in 1949
What is China
200
How did the US overcome the Soviet bloc
What is the Berlin Airlift or flying supplies into West Berlin daily
200
During the war conferences the US and Great Britain believed that the liberated nations of Eastern Europe should
What is hold free elections to determine their futures
300
When the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik I satellite in 1957, many Americans feared PRIMARILY that (hint: answer does not have to do with spying)
What is USSR was ahead of US in the production of missiles
300
What is the Bay of Pigs?
What is a US failed attempt to overthrow the Cuban govt. using CIA trained Cuban exiles
300
Why was the Berlin Wall built
What is to prevent East Germans from defecting into West Germany
300
Predicted by President Kennedy in 1961, massive government funding and leaps in research and technology enabled the US to _____ by 1969.
What is land astronauts on the moon
300
According to Kennedy, what is the difference between conventional (old) and modern (new) weapons?
What is modern weapons are mobile and be deployed quickly
400
What communist leader initiated the "Prague Spring: with a series of reforms in Czechoslovakia in 1968
What is Alexander Dubcek
400
A hotline between the White House and the Kremlin was established in response to what event
What is Cuban Missile Crisis
400
According to Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech, what approach did he feel the Western democracies take to deter Soviet expansion
What is containment and preemptive military action
400
The reunification of East and West Germany resulted in what
What is racial tensions and high unemployment
400
Student protests of the late 1960s were reactions against almost everything except what fundamental aspect of the Cold War?
What is communism
500
The Prague Spring of Alexander DUbcek was forestalled in 1968 when what happened
What is the soviet army invaded Czechoslovakia
500
The Tehran Conference in 1943 set in motion a plan that would ultimately result in
What is germany being divided along a north-south line into East and West
500
The Vietnam War and Korean War were similar because...(need 3 reasons)
What is US, China and USSR were involved, conflicts were between the communist North and non-communist South, The U.S. struggled with unfamiliar terrain, both "ended" in an uneasy peace/ceasefire
500
The United States was inclined to sign a nuclear weapons treaty in 1990 because it needed to
What is reduce military spending
500
The Yalta Conference resulted in the Big Three powers agreeing to
What is form the United Nations