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Cold War at Home/Politics/Policies Questions for Cold War Review Tournament
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1
Who was the first person in space?
Valentina Tereshkova
Yuri Gagarin
Sally Ride
Mark Watney
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Who was Alger Hiss?
President Reagan’s Secretary of the Treasury
U.S. government official accused of being Soviet spy
Physicist who Developed Nuclear Technology
American spy in China
3
What space mission landed first on the moon, in 1969?
Vostok 18
Soyuz 19
Space Shuttle Challenger
Apollo 11
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Who was not a spy during the Cold War?
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
Rudolf Abel
Francis “Gary” Powers
Nathan Hale
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Which President predicted the U.S. would go to the moon before the end of the decade (1960s)?
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
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What was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)?
Called for execution of all Hippies
Investigated disloyalty of those tied to the Communist Party
Sponsored the U-2 spy plane program
Supported American spies in Paraguay
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What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
Hubble
Vostok 6
Sputnik 1
Apollo 11
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What was one of the biggest fears of the American people during the Cold War?
Elvis was corrupting teenagers
Television would rot the brains of American youth
All-Out Nuclear War with the Soviet Union
China would invade America
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What was the Red Scare?
Fear of Republicans
Fear of people with red hair
Fear of tomato products
Fear of communism taking over the United States
10
Senator Joseph McCarthy is most closely associated with which event?
The Red Scare
Berlin Blockade
The Vietnam War
The Space Race
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Which event is NOT part of the Cold War Space Race?
Sputnik (1957)
Yuri Gagarin (1961)
Apollo 11 (1969)
International Space Station (1998-present)
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Which country sent the first woman to space?
China
Soviet Union
United States
India
13
Where did Joseph McCarthy claim was infiltrated with communists?
Classrooms
The White House
Airline Industry
The State Department
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Who said, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country"?
Richard Milhous Nixon
Lyndon Baines Johnson
Dwight David Eisenhower
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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What was the Hydrogen Bomb (H-Bomb)?
Code name for US space program
Bomb dropped on Moscow
Failed Soviet nuclear device
Nuclear Fusion bomb; even bigger than A-bomb
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Which subjects were emphasized in schools following the launch of Sputnik in 1957?
Foreign Languages
Math and Science
History and Government
Physical Education
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What does M.A.D. stand for?
Mixed Alliance Delegates
Maroon Atomic Dye
Mutually Assured Destruction
Mid-Atlantic Dockyard
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Which organization was NOT used to obtain secret information from the Soviets?
United Network Command for Law and Enforcement (UNCLE)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
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In what year did the United States reach the moon?
1989
1969
1904
2015
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Which U.S. President ramped up the Cold War again in the 1980s?
George H. W. Bush
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan
Bill Clinton
