This meeting of the "Big Three" during WWII foreshadowed later disagreements between the USSR and the West.
What is the Yalta Conference?
100
On June 25, 1950, Communist troops from the north crossed 38th parallel of latitude to invade the American backed south, beginning this war.
What is the Korean War?
100
This American president served from 1961 until his assassination in 1963.
Who is JFK?
100
In January of 1973, North and South Vietnamese forces made an agreement "ending the war and restoring the peace in Vietnam," ending this nation's direct involvement in the Vietnam War.
What is the United States of America.
100
This president, elected in 1980, changed the policy of detente toward the USSR into one of "peace through strength."
Who is Ronald Reagan?
200
This doctrine, declared by the US president in 1947, was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical hegemony during the Cold War.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
200
This general was fired for insubordination in April 1951 after publicly criticizing president Truman for refusing to expand the Korean War into China.
Who is General MacArthur?
200
This wall, built in 1961, stood as a visible symbol of the Cold War division between East and West for nearly 30 years.
What is the Berlin Wall?
200
In 1975, the North Vietnamese army launched a full-scale invasion of the South, capturing this capital of the former nation.
What is Saigon?
200
This plan, nicknamed "Star Wars," was presented in 1983, and called for the development of weapons that could intercept and destroy incoming missiles.
What is the Strategic Defense Initiative?
300
The European Recovery Program was proposed in 1947 to give European nations American aid to rebuild their economies, but it was commonly known by this other name.
What is the Marshall Plan?
300
This married couple was executed for espionage in June 1953.
Who are the Rosenbergs?
300
In 1969, the United States was the first to put a human on the Moon in this space mission.
What is Apollo 11?
300
During Nixon's administration, the US relaxed tensions between its two major communist rivals, in a period known by this French term.
What is detente?
300
In 1985, this man became the new leader of the Soviet Union, and agreed to resume arms control talks with the US.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
400
In June 1948, Soviet troops cut all road and rail traffic to West Berlin, provoking a crisis. To provide food, medicine and coal to the West Berliners, president Truman ordered this measure, to beat the blockade.
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
This country successfully tested a powerful hydrogen bomb in 1953, less than a year after the United States.
What is the Soviet Union?
400
This American president began a "war on poverty," while escalating Americas military presence in Vietnam.
Who is LBJ?
400
In 1972, the US and USSR agreed to this treaty to limit nuclear arms.
What is SALT I.
400
Signed in 1987, this treaty was the first to call for the destruction of nuclear weapons.
What is the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty?
500
This man wrote The Long Telegram, which gave rise to the policy of Cold War containment.
Who is George Kennan?
500
The launch of this satellite into orbit in 1957, the first to orbit the earth, alarmed the United States, prompting the creation of NASA and the National Defense Education Act.
What is Sputnik?
500
This resolution authorized President Johnson to "take all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression" from North Vietnamese forces.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution?
500
President Carter boycotted the Summer Olympic Games, after the USSR invaded this Central Asian nation in 1979.
What is Afghanistan?
500
To save the Soviet economy, Gorbachev instituted perestroika, or "restructuring," as well as this other principle, which means "openness."