This person authorized the Interstate Highway System in 1956.
Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower?
100
In 1984, Russia got the atomic bomb. What did this start?
What is the atomic age?
100
Document stating that the U.S. would support Greece and Turkey with economic and military aid.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
100
Began in 1945 and ended in 1991
What is The Cold War?
100
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?
200
Became the Soviet leader after Stalin died.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
200
Launched by Russia.
What is Sputnik?
200
Document that aided Europe with monetary support to help rebuild European economies.
What is the Marshall Plan?
200
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists?
What is the Vietnam War?
200
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 the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)?
300
Dictator of Russia
Who is Joseph Stalin?
300
Project called the Teller-Ulam design, after Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam .
What is the hydrogen bomb?
300
Created a unified Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and the National Security Council.
What is the National Security Act of 1947?
300
During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
Person that coined the phrase Iron Curtain.
Who is Winston Churchill?
400
Carried supplies to the people in West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
Passed by Russia as a response to NATO.
What is The Warsaw Pact?
400
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
400
The organization that constitutes a system of collective defense when its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
What is NATO?
500
Became the Soviet leader after Stalin died.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
500
Barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic.
What is the Berlin Wall?
500
Established under the Soviet Union to facilitate and coordinate the economic development of the eastern European countries
What is Comecon?
500
One of the most important causes of the Cold War between the USSR and the US after WWII was THIS KIND of conflict?
What is ideological conflict?
500
The committee that was formed in the U.S. by the House of Representatives as an investigative agency who looked for communist in the U.S.
What is the House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?