Leaders
Who was the leader of the USSR during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
What were Gorbachev's two new USSR policies?
What is Perestroika and Glasnost?
What is the theory that if one nation falls to communism, the surrounding countries will as well?
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?
In what two countries did the United States have missiles located overseas?
What is Italy and Turkey?
Which US president escalated the arms race? (Hint: he had the famous speech that we talked about!!)
Who is Ronald Reagan?
What is the doctrine that states that the US should give support to the countries threatened by USSR forces or communist insurrection?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
What was the alliance formed between the US and her allies (UK, France, Turkey)?
What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?
What was the proxy war fought by North and South of a country, the communist leader was Ho Chi Min, China and US fought on opposite sides?
What is the Vietnam War?
Which US president during the Cold War was involved in a major scandal? What was the name of the scandal?
Who is Richard Nixon and the Watergate Scandal?
Who was the USSR leader that wanted change and caused the USSR collapse?
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
What was the US plan to provide foreign aid to Europe?
What is the Marshall Plan?
What was the alliance group formed by the USSR and her allies (Hungary, Bulgaria, Poland, etc)?
What is the Warsaw Pact?
What was the proxy war fought by North and South of a country, NATO and China fighting on opposite sides, ended in a draw at the 38th parellel?
What is the Korean War?
What did the United States call the fear of communism spreading to us our our allies?
Who was the US president that handled the Cuban Missile Crisis?
What was the operation that carried supplies by plane to the Allied sectors of West Berlin during a USSR blockade?
What is the Berlin Airlift?
What was the failed US military operation to overthrow Fidel Castro and the communist government in Cuba?
What is Bay of Pigs?
What event sparked the start of the space race?
What is the launching of the USSR satellite Sputnik?
What is the name of the first man to land on the moon? (He is an American)
Who was the communist dictator of Cuba?
Who is Fidel Castro?
What was the US plan/theory during the Cold War to slow and stop the spread of communism?
What is containment?
What was the nuclear competition between the US and USSR called?
What is the Arms Race?
What event signified the reunification of Germany?
What is the falling of the Berlin Wall?
What is the space organization called that was formed in the US during the Space Race?
What is NASA? (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)