Berlin Wall
By the end of 1949, this democratic state allied with the U.S. emerged from western zones - with West Berlin as part of that new country.
What is West Germany?
U.S. president who refused Khrushchev’s 1961 demand to leave Berlin.
Who is John F. Kennedy?
C.I.A.-backed Cuban exiles landed at this bay in 1961 in attempt to overthrow Castro. The plan failed.
What is the Bay of Pigs, Cuba?
The word that means fighting with small bands of soldiers who use tactics such as sudden ambushes.
What is guerrilla warfare?
This was the name of the first person to step on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
Soviet leader after Stalin’s 1953 death and demanded Western withdrawal from Berlin in 1961.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
1962 crisis: Soviets placed long-range missiles here, 90 miles south of Florida.
What is Cuba?
What action did Kennedy order the United States Navy to take when he learned Soviet missiles were in Cuba?
What is a naval blockade / quarantine?
East Germany constructed this to stop their own citizens fleeing into West Berlin.
What is the Berlin Wall?
This was the main purpose of the United States landing on the Moon.
What is bring back lunar soil to Earth?
Why did the East Germans (with Soviet support) build a wall around the western sections of Berlin?
What is millions fleeing from East Germany into West Berlin?
Note: The Iron Curtain already separated western Europe and Eastern Europe, but there was still one place where people
Communist leader of Cuba.
Who is Fidel Castro?
In the deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States publicly pledged never to do this action.
What is invade Cuba.
American U-2 spy planes discovered when they photographed Cuba in 1962?
What were Soviet launching sites for nuclear weapons?
Cuba is closes to what American state?
What is Florida?
1961 structure built by Soviets to stop East Germans fleeing to West Belin; symbolized Cold War division.
What is the Berlin Wall?
October 1962 event where Kennedy blockaded Cuba, averting nuclear war after Soviets removed nuclear missiles.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In the deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Soviet Union publicly pledged to do?
What is to remove Soviet / Russian missiles from Cuba and never put them back in again.
What did Kennedy threaten to do to the Soviet Union if a nuclear weapon was used against American troops on a Cuban beach?
What is respond with a nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.
This name was the code name of American mobilization to prepare to invade Cuba. The public figured out it was not just an exercise by the code name sending a secret signal if read backwards.
What is ORTSAC?
What is shoot them?
The Cuban Missile Crisis ended with a deal. The Soviets were to remove their forces form Cuba. In return, the United States pledged never to invade this country once they left.
What is Cuba?
In the deal that ended the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States secretly pledged to pull our nuclear missiles out of what country in six month?
What is Turkey (and a few from other countries)?
This American was the first to orbit the Earth.
Who was John Glenn?
The Soviet leader who introduced Soviet nuclear weapons into Cuba so the Soviet missiles could hit the United States.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?