Going BOOM
In which war did the US use more bombs: WWII or the Vietnam War?
The Vietnam War
How did Stalin deal with those that he did not trust or that had committed a crime?
VIOLIENCE
Which countries received pieces of Germany after WWII?
US, Britain, France, and USSR
HUAC
Un-American Activities Committee
When did WWII end?
1945
Who is the man that leaked nuclear secrets to the USSR?
Klaus Fuchs
What belief led to American defending democratic Asian countries?
Domino Theory
What general area of influence did Stalin want control over in the Yalta Conference?
Eastern Europe
NASA
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
In what year did North Korea invade South Korea?
1950
What event caused for Lyndon Johnson to start Operation Rolling Thunder?
The Gulf of Tonkin
Who was Ethel Rosenberg's brother?
David Greenglass
Which country tried to regain possession of Vietnam after WWII? (hint: white flag, stupid, dumb, buffoonish, surrender)
France
MAD
Mutually Assured Destruction
What year did the US pull out Vietnam? What year did the war officially end?
1973
1975
What new kind of missile did the Space Race help create?
ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
What were the two Red Scares?
WWI (1917)
McCarthyism (1940s-1950s)
What was Ho Chi Minh City's previous name?
Saigon
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
What year did the Space Race begin? (Hint: Vietnam War)
1955
What is the innermost part of a nuclear explosion that vaporizes everything inside called?
The fireball zone
Which country began protesting after Nikita Khrushchev's speech to congress?
Hungary
In what village were nearly 500 people massacred during the Vietnam War?
My Lai
KGB (or CSS)
Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti (Committee for State Security)
What year was the Berlin Wall Built?
1961