The Cold War (Part 1)

Sputnik was

Where did the 444 day hostage crisis take place in 1980 that was resolved the day President Reagan came into office

U.S.’s failed attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro

This was a failed attempt by the US to assassinate the Cuban dictator, Castro

The wall, built by the East Germans, which came to symbolize the divide between communism and the rest of the world was

This was a tense, 45 year conflict between the US and USSR that was about differing ideals and almost led to WWIII

Which of the following countries did not control a zone of Germany following WWII

He was the US president during the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuba Missile Crisis

The currentreligious leader of Iran is called a

Iran is mostly made up of this type of Muslim, that believe countries should be run in accordance with the Quran

He was the Cuban leader that brought communism to Cuba (also the target of a failed US assassination attempt)

Truman’s idea after WWII that it is the U.S.’s responsibility to keep communism from spreading

This man introduced the idea of an "iron curtain" dividing the communist world from the rest

This Russian leader was the dictator at the beginning of the Cold War (also through WWII)

The U.S.'s donation to Europe to the tune of $15 Billion was known as the

event in the 1960s when Russia started building nuclear weapons in Cuba and (almost started WWIII)

This was a policy introduced by Truman that stated the US's #1 goal would be to keep communism from spreading

organization formed by the Soviet Union and its allies in response to organization formed in the previous question

He was the dictator of Iraq during the 1980s and 1990s (was ousted and eventually hung by the US)

This was the first major Cold War event that saw Stalin try to blockade people from West Berlin (the US helped them)

This Cold War event brought the US and USSR to the brink of WWIII (Soviet missiles were being built in Cuba)

Churchill’s name for an imaginary line that divides Communist Eastern Europe with noncommunist western Europe

Which of the following was an example of following the policy of containment?

When a country is willing to do anything it needs to do in order to survive, just short of starting a war

What was the first major (actual) war to follow WWII?

This U.S. president ended WWII and served at teh beginning of the Cold War

He was the first man to step foot on the moon

This term came to define the US and all of its allies

This "peace" organization was created after WWII and was made up of 10 western European countries, the U.S., and Canada

This type of Muslim believes in separating religion from governmental law, like in Iraq