CIA
What spy plane did the US regularly use for info during the Cold War?
U2 Spy Plane
Name one trap used by the Viet Cong
Answers include: Door trap, whip trap, snake pit, stake pit, bow trap, grenade in a can, etc.
What was the first satellite in space?
Sputnik
What did the Soviet Union call the smaller countries that made up its massive empire?
Constituent Republics
What WWII era organization would lead to the creation of the CIA?
The OSS
What pathway did the Viet Cong use to smuggle vital supplies in and out of the country?
Ho Chi Minh Trail
What year did the Berlin Wall fall?
1989
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during its collapse?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Which CIA operation involved testing drugs and other methods on people to try and develop a way to brainwash or mind control people?
MK Ultra
Weapon made by combining naphthenic acid and palmitic acid.
Napalm
Which space mission first successfully put human beings on the moon?
Apollo 11
What was the name of the policy intended to save the Soviet economy?
Perestroika (restructuring)
The CIA trained Cuban rebels to fight against Communism which ended in a disaster called the...
Bay of Pigs incident
Which event signified the end of the Vietnam War?
The Fall of Saigon
What was the major cause of the Chernobyl disaster?
The Soviets ran a test at far lower power than they're supposed to
What group of guerilla fighters successfully fought off the Soviet Union in Afghanistan with help from the US, only to become the terrorist group the Taliban?
Mujahideen
The CIA organized a coup in Iran to prevent what?
Losing supply of Iranian oil
Name the peace treaty that the US used to pull out of the Vietnam War in exchange for getting back Prisoners of War
Paris Peace Treaty of 1973
Who killed JFK according to the US Government?
Lee Harvey Oswald
Who became the first leader of the Russian Federation? (Russia)
Boris Yeltsin