The Basics
The two superpowers during the Cold War.
Who are the USA and the USSR (Soviet Union)?
The name of the first satellite launched into space.
What is Sputnik?
This "War" ended in a stalemate and left the country divided.
What is the Korean War?
The city that was split in two by a concrete wall.
What is Berlin?
The U.S. President during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Who is John F. Kennedy (JFK)?
The economic system where the government owns everything.
What is Communism?
The acronym M.A.D. stands for this nuclear theory.
What is Mutually Assured Destruction?
The island nation where the USSR hidden nuclear missiles.
What is Cuba?
This "Curtain" was an imaginary line dividing Europe.
What is the Iron Curtain?
The Soviet leader who put missiles in Cuba.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
The U.S. policy of stopping the spread of Communism.
What is Containment?
This 1969 event effectively "won" the Space Race for the USA.
What is the Moon Landing?
A war where superpowers support opposite sides but don't fight directly.
What is a Proxy War?
The military alliance created by the US and its allies.
What is NATO?
The Soviet leader whose reforms led to the end of the USSR
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
The "opposite" of Communism, used by the United States.
What is Capitalism (or Democracy)?
The "Race" to build the most powerful nuclear weapons.
What is the Arms Race?
The U.S. fought this long war to stop Communism in Southeast Asia.
What is the Vietnam War?
The Soviet response/alliance to the creation of NATO.
What is the Warsaw Pact?
The British leader who first used the term "Iron Curtain."
Who is Winston Churchill?
The year the Soviet Union officially collapsed.
What is 1991?
The name of the first human to ever travel into space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
The parallel line that still divides North and South Korea.
What is the 38th Parallel?
This event in 1989 symbolized the "beginning of the end."
What is the falling of the Berlin Wall?
The U.S. President who told Gorbachev to "Tear down this wall!"
Who is Ronald Reagan?