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Space Race
Cuban Missile Crisis
Spread of Communism
Germany
Vocabulary
100
This was the first successful mission to land on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
100
The country that put nuclear missiles in Cuba.
What is the Soviet Union?
100
This was the plan to rebuild Europe after World War II to help build prosperous capitalist countries.
What is the Marshall Plan?
100
The country West Berlin surrounded by.
What is East Germany?
100
The piece of the Apollo Spacecraft that landed on the moon.
What is the Lunar Module?
200
He walked on the moon beside Neil Armstrong.
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
200
He was the leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Fidel Castro?
200
A term for keeping communism only in the countries it is currently found in.
What is containment?
200
The half of Germany that was under the influence of NATO members.
What is West Germany?
200
The world's first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik?
300
This is the only piece of the Apollo spacecraft that returns to Earth.
What is the command module?
300
Kennedy did one of these to prevent further shipments of missiles from entering Cuba.
What is a blockade?
300
This was an imaginary line that divided Europe during the Cold War.
What is the Iron Curtain?
300
These are the four countries that divided Germany after WWII.
Who are The United States, Soviet Union, Great Britain, and France?
300
These missiles can travel great distances even to different continents.
What are intercontinental ballistic missiles?
400
Of the three major pieces of the Apollo spacecraft this one was damaged during the Apollo 13 mission.
What is the service module?
400
Missiles did not come to Cuba until after this failed attempt to overthrow Castro.
What is the Bay of Pigs Invasion?
400
The Warsaw Pact worked opposite of this group.
What is NATO?
400
The name of a famous wall in East Germany that divided a city.
What is the Berlin Wall?
400
This is the name for the division between North and South Korea.
What is the Demilitarized Zone?
500
He was the first American in space.
Who is Alan Shepard?
500
He was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
This communist country tried to spread their control by invading a country on the Korean Peninsula.
What is North Korea?
500
This is the name for the year the United States had to fly in all supplies to West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
500
This is the name for the group of countries in the United Nations that can veto any UN resolution.
What is the Security Council?