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1950s-1990s
1950s-1990s
When?Where?
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Yuri Gagarin.
What is the first human orbit earth called?
100
Saddam Hussein.
Who is the person that governed Iraq as a secular state?
100
Iron Curtain.
During the Cold War, the boundary separating the Communists nations of Eastern European from the mostly democratic nations of Western Europe?
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"Great Leap Forward"
To expand the success of the first Five- Year Plan, Mao proclaimed the _________________ in early 1958.
100
In 1970
In which year did Venera 7 landed on Venus?
200
Neil Armstrong, Buzz aldrin, Michael Collins.
List three people that were first manned moon landing?
200
Ronald Reagan’s
Who is the person that announced the strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)?
200
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven eastern European countries?
200
Marshall Plan
A U.S. program of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after World War II.
200
Four decades.
How many decades it took the Soviet Union to respond with its own military buildup?
300
Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Who was the president of the U.S. in 1953?
300
Valentina Tereshkova.
In 1963, what is the name of the first woman in space?
300
Solidarity
A polish labor union that during the 1980s became the main force of opposition to the Communists rule in Poland?
300
NATO.
A defensive military alliance formed in on 1949 by ten Western European nations, the United States, and Canada.
300
In 1958.
When the United States did launch their own satellite?
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Mao Zedong.
What is the name of the person who admitted that the Cultural revolution had to stop in 1968.?
400
ICBM.
In 1957, the Soviets announced the development of a rocket that could travel great distance. What was it called?
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Domino theory
The idea that if a nation falls under Communists control, nearby nations will also fall under Communists control?
400
U-2 plane.
What was the secret high altitude spy flights over the soviet territory planes called?
400
The U.S. embassy in Tehran.
Which U.S. embassy was seized by the Islamic revolutionaries in 1979?
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Jimmy Carter.
What is the name of the president who warned the Soviets against any attempt to gain control the Persian Gulf?
500
Warsaw Pact
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and seven eastern European countries?
500
Détente
A policy of reducing Cold War tensions that was adopted by the United States during the presidency of Richard Nixon?
500
The United States and the Soviet.
Which two countries did the Cold War affected the science and education programs?
500
Iran & Iraq.
The United States gave aid to ________ &__________ because it did not want the balance of in the region to change.