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Cold War timeline of events
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1
As a young man, where did Ho Chi Minh go to study Marxism?
China
London
Siagon
Paris
2
What international conflict saw the US and the USSR on the same side?
Grenada Invasion
Suez Crisis
Revolutions of 1989
Bay of Pigs
3
During a lunar mission, who hit a golf ball on the Moon?
Yuri Gagarin
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
Neil Armstrong
4
What event shocked America in 1957 and prompted The US to start NASA?
Soviets test Tsar Bomba
Yuri Gagarin: 1st man in space
Missiles in Cuba
Soviets launch Sputnik 1
5
Who was the 1st US president to visit China during the Cold War?
Kennedy
Truman
Eisenhower
Nixon
6
Where did Fidel Castro and Che Guevara meet before they launched the Cuban Revolution?
Argentina
Mexico
Dominican Republic
Cuba
7
What US President signed the authorization of NASA?
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon Johnson
Harry Truman
Dwight Eisenhower
8
What shuttle launch carried, Alan Shepard, the 1st American in space?
Mercury 7
Genesis 3
Apollo 7
Explorer 2
9
What was the Sino-Soviet Split?
The Soviet Union invades Korea
Eastern Europe breaks away from USSR
A tough break in bowling
broken alliance between China and USSR
10
What year did the US and USSR sign SALT 1 to limit missile build-up?
1975
1983
1972
1968
11
Who was the 1st man in space?
Yuri Gagarin
Alan Shepard
Che Guevara
John Glenn
12
What small Caribbean island did the US invade after a communist revolution?
Grenada
Haiti
Canada
Jamaica
13
As the most powerfully made explosive in human history, what was Tsar Bomba's magnitude?
2 megatons of TNT
1200 megatons of TNT
.5 megaton of TNT
57 megatons of TNT
14
What conflict between The Soviet Union and the West marked the beginning of the Cold War?
WWI
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Blockade
WWII
15
Which US president decided to use atomic bombs in Japan and sparked the Arms Race?
John F. Kennedy
Dwight Eisenhower
Harry Truman
Franklin Roosevelt
16
What foreign policy opinion drove America to become involved in several wars and battles?
The Dove Dilemma
Domino Theory
The Toy Soldier Theory
Warsaw Pact
17
Who was the communist leader of Vietnam?
Pol Pot
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Kim Jung Il
18
After 3 years of fighting and half a million casualties, who won the Korean War?
The US
It was a tie
South Korea
North Korea
19
As communism spread out from the Soviet Union, what was the policy the US used to stop it?
Isolationism
The Warsaw Pact
Containment
NATO
20
Who resigned as head of the communist party and effectively ended the Soviet Union?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
Joseph Stalin
21
Who was President Truman's Soviet rival during the initiation of the Cold War?
Ho Chi Minh
Vladimir Lenin
Joseph Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
22
Who was the pilot of the U2 plane that was shot down while spying on the USSR in 1960?
Gary Powers
John Glenn
Austin Powers
Julius Rosenberg
23
Who was the passenger of Sputnik 2?
Curious George
It was unmanned
Yuri Gagarin
Laika the dog
24
What was the US Bay of Pigs military plan for defeating Castro's Cuban revolution?
naval blockade
Air Strikes
Use Cuban exiles as soldiers
aim nuclear missiles at Cuba
25
The Truman Doctrine started when President Truman wanted to stop what war?
The Greek Civil War
The Korean War
The Vietnam War
WWII
26
What colonial power ruled Vietnam and left in the 50's as communism was introduced to the area?
The Dutch
The British
The French
The Russians
27
Who did John F Kennedy defeat in the 1960 presidential election?
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Henry Wallace
John Glenn
28
Who was the star witness for HUAC who named actors and writers as communists?
Joseph McCarthy
The Hollywood 10
Charlie Chaplin
Walt Disney
29
What was the name of NASA's 1st launch?
Explorer 1
Mercury 1
Apollo 1
Sputnik 1
30
Which of the following astronauts never set foot on the moon?
Michael Collins
Neil Armstrong
Buzz Aldrin
Alan Shepard
