The Cold War/1950's

The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted for 13 days and nearly ended in nuclear war.

The Soviet Union dissolved in

The defense agreement made with Western European countries was called

Cuba is only 90 miles from south Florida.

Ronald Reagan met with this Soviet Union leader during the final years of the Cold War.

According to John Green, Josef Stalin was a

The second red scare was a witch hunt for communists in American society; it was known as McCarthyism.

America's official Cold War policy was

Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Who said, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"

The defense agreement made among the Eastern Bloc countries was called

The Berlin Wall fell in

The Bay of Pigs was a successful U.S. backed invasion of Communist Cuba.

Who was the American leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

The 1980 upset of the Soviet Union by the United States ice hockey team was known as the "Miracle on Ice".

The Marshall Plan provided European democracies with financial support after WWII.

The generation that grew up in the 1950's and 1960's are known as

The Cold War wasn't actually cold.

The United States was the first country to launch a sattelite into space, called Sputnik.

The Korean War is known as the "forgotten war".

The inventor of the polio vaccine was

Churchill called the political line that separated Eastern Bloc from Western countries the:

The Soviet Union acquired their first atomic weapon in