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Containment
Arms Race
Space Race
Institutions
100
This was the first major military conflict between the West and the Communist
What is the Korean War?
100
What country was trying to contain communism? What was the main communist power that country was trying to contain?
What is the U.S. ? What is the USSR?

(USA was trying to contain the USSR)

100
We were executed for passing secret atomic weapons information to the Soviet Union.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
100
What two major actors in the Cold War competed in the Space Race?
What is the U.S. and the USSR?
100
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 House Committee of Un-American Activities (HUAC)?
200
October 16-28, 1962 were arguably the most dangerous thirteen days of the Cold War. During this period nuclear war seemed not only plausible, but probable. This particularly unstable time was due to this dilemma where Nuclear apocalypse almost happened.
What is the Cuban Missile Crisis.
200

Senator Joseph McCarthy spread suspicion about people being communists but nevercould prove anything. In the end he was _______ by the Senate.

What is "censored"?
200
What is the name of the place where exiles tried to overthrow Fidel Castro?
What is the Bay of Pigs?
200
The Soviet Union launched this artificial satellite into space on October 4, 1947?
What is Sputnik?
200
It is the Western organization that constitutes a system of mutual military defences wherein if one country in the organization is attacked by an external party all of the members would agree to retaliate?
What is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)?
300
What was the second major military conflict between the West and the Communists? This conflict was controversial in the USA as a result of its requisite drafts. 
What is the Vietnam War?
300
This policy was instilled to fight communism and promote democracy in 1947. This policy said that communism could exist but the USA would FIGHT to stop it spreading
What is the Truman Doctrine?
300

The name of the latitudinal line that separates the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea)

What is The 38th Parallel? 
300
NASA rebuttled the USSR during the Space Race, and launched ____.
What is Apollo 11?
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. Formed at the beginning of the war.
What is the United Nations (UN)?
400
When the USSR backed Iran what country did the West give weapons to in order to drive out the communists?
Saudi Arabia
400
What was the military alliance of communist powers that said if one of them is attacked with a nuke they would all retaliate with their nukes at once?
What is The Warsaw Pact?
400
The name of the U.S. spy plane that got shot down over the Soviet Union.
What is U-2?
400
President of the United States when man landed on the moon.
Who is JFK?
400

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?
500

What country in the middle east had communist powers starting to take control but the people, led by the "mujahideen" fought against them with weapons aids from the USA

Afghanistan (note: these same weapons the USA gave to Osama Bin Ladin and other mujahideen are what the military group behind 911, Al Quida, utilized)
500
What was the 1st successful agreement between the USA and the USSR to cut down the amount of nuclear weapons that are stockpiled?

What are the S.A.L.T. agreements? (aka what are the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaties?)

500
I am what the U.S and Russia were building and stockpiling in competition of each other.
What are nuclear weapons?
500
The first country to photograph the Earth from space.
What is the U.S.?
500
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 Central Intelligence Agency CIA?