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100

This President oversaw the Korean War, and the introduction of the Atomic Bomb.

Who is Harry Truman?

100

A War in East Asia following the Second World War. It was fought along the 38th parallel.

What is the Korean War?

100

This type of weapon splits and atom apart, causing devastation.

What is an atom bomb/fission bomb?

100

A term that came to associate with claims of socialist sympathies.

What is McCarthyism? 

100

The Apollo Spacecraft.

What is the Saturn V?

200

This President was made famous for his handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Cold War.

Who is John F. Kennedy?

200

This conflict was unpopular with the American public, and reinstituted the draft.

What is Vietnam? 

200

This high altitude aircraft spied on Soviet troops and facilities throughout the Cold War. In 1960, one was shot down, causing a political crisis.

What is the U-2?

200

The youth movement and ideas of the 60's and early 70's.

What is Counterculture?

200

German scientist employed by NASA.

Who is Wernher von Braun?

300

This President served in the armed forces, and oversaw the construction of the Interstate.

Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower? 

300

This crisis occurred off the coast of Florida in 1962.

What is the Cuban Missile Crisis?

300

This fortification split a city until 1989.

What is the Berlin Wall?

300

Mandatory military service.

What is the Draft?

300

The leader of Communist Cuba.

Who is Fidel Castro?

400

This President became Famous for his "Great Society" and the Vietnam War.

Who is Lyndon B Johnson?

400

This event marked the end of the Space Race, and the largest human achievement. 

What is the Moon Landing/ Apollo 11?

400

This aircraft, nicknamed the BUFF (Big Ugly Fat Friend) was used extensively in conflicts throughout the Cold War, and is still in service today.

What is the B-52?

400

LBJ's new Government program to better American society.

What is the Great Society?

400

Russian Officer who averted war during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Who is Vasily Arkhipov?

500

This President oversaw the country, and was reelected in a landslide, but left office after a 1972 scandal.

Who is Richard Nixon?

500

This blockade caused US air power to supply a German city with necessities for over a year.

What is the Berlin Airlift?

500

The Program that brought man to the moon.

What is the Apollo Program?

500

A term for Soviet controlled Europe first coined by Winston Churchill in 1946.

What is the Iron Curtain?

500

Communist forces in South Vietnam.

Who are the Viet-Cong?