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First man in space...
Buzz Aldrin
Yuri Gagarin
Neil Armstrong
Alan Shepard
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The competition between the superpowers that started with the launch of Sputnik 1 in 1957 was
Missile Race
Arms Race
Long Race
Space Race
3
Name of the conference that divided Germany towards the end of WWII
Yalta Conference
Berlin Conference
Munich Conference
Hamburg Conference
4
The Eastern Communist Alliance during the Cold War was
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
NATO
Warsaw Pact
5
Economic aide plan to help nations rebuild after WWII was
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Roosevelt Plan
United Nations
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Who is this?
Gorbachev
Castro
Stalin
Khrushchev
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Which U.S. president is this?
Trump
Roosevelt
Truman
Wilson
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The USA was the first nation to put a man on the moon
True
False
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Competition between the superpowers to develop nuclear weapons was called
Space Race
Arms Race
Deadly Race
Long Race
10
The Truman Doctrine gave money and weapons to nations that promised to
attack China
help NASA with space program
resist communism and Soviet aggression
become trading partners
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Who is this?
Gorbachev
Castro
Stalin
Khrushchev
12
Term used to describe Communist Eastern European nations surrounding the USSR during the Cold War (many in Warsaw Pact)
CIS
Western Bloc Nations
NATO
Satellite States
13
The Berlin Wall was built to stop people from moving from
West to East
North to South
South to North
East to West
14
American President at time of Cuban Missile Crisis
Kennedy
Reagan
Truman
Roosevelt
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The imaginary line that divided Democratic West Europe from Commmunist East was
Prime Meridian
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
38th Parallel
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Which U.S. president is this?
Nixon
Roosevelt
Carter
Reagan
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Who is this?
Castro
Khrushchev
Stalin
Gorbachev
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Gorbachev's plan to restructure the Soviet economy using small-scale Capitalism was called
Brinkmanship
Peretroika
Glastnost
Detente
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Term used to describe the easing of tensions during the Cold War
Brinkmanship
Detente
Diplomacy
Crisis
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Who is this?
Gale Halvorsen "The Candy Bomber"
JFK
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
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Is this statement True or False: I am ready for Spring Break!!!
True
False
22
The USA was the first nation to put a man in space
False
True
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Who is this?
Khrushchev
Castro
Stalin
Gorbachev
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Years of the Cold War
1945-2017
1945-1975
1945-1991
1945-2001
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Limiting the spread of communism was called
Restrictive War
Tension
Containment
Red Scare
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Last leader of the USSR whose failed policies (Glasnost & Perestroika) led to their collapse in 1991 was
Nikita Khruschev
Leonid Breshnev
Joseph Stalin
Mikhail Gorbachev
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In both Korea and Vietnam, the USA fought to prevent communism from moving
North to South
East to West
West to East
South to North
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Term used to describe being close to war
Brinkmanship
Detente
Disagreements
Height of Tension
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Name of the Soviet leader at time of the Cuban Missile crisis
Leonid Breshnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khruschev
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This nation was reunified in 1990 after 45 years of separation
USSR
Afghanistan
France
Germany
31
The Western Democratic alliance during the Cold War was
Allied Powers
Axis Powers
NATO
Warsaw Pact
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In what 2 Asian nations did the US fight wars to fight communist aggression?
Korea/Vietnam
Korea/Japan
Korea/China
Korea/Cambodia
33
What was the name of the response to Stalin's blockade of West Berlin in 1948-49? (hint: Candy Bomber)
Berlin Wall
Berlin Handout
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Blockade
34
Nations that dominate Global Politics for several decades are called
Major Players
Superpowers
Big Dogs
Dominators
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Gobachev's plan to bring "social openess" to the USSR was called
Detente
Glasnost
Brinkmanship
Perestroika
