Cold War Quizizz

This "figurative" wall divided communist countries from democratic counties:

• Great Wall of China
• Berlin Wall
• Iron Curtain
• Wall of Democracy

These were the opposing superpowers during the Cold War years

• China and Russia
• Cuba and Russia
• USA and Russia
• Iran and Russia

John F. Kennedy was president during which event?

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• World War II
• World War I
• Spanish American War

The purpose of "containment" was to--

• stop the spread of democracy
• stop the spread of hate
• stop global warming
• stop the spread of communism

In this economic system, the government owns all property and means of production.

• communism
• capitalism
• socialism
• democracy

A competition of space exploration between the United States and Soviet Union.

• Space Race
• Star Wars
• Surveillance
• McCarthyism

Soviet Union tries to bring nuclear weapons to island and almost leads to nuclear war between the US and the USSR

• Cuban Missile Crisis
• Deterrence
• Berlin Airlift

State of tension and mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union after World War II

• Cold War
• Vietnam War
• Korean War

Ruthless dictator of Russia during World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War.

• Joseph Stalin
• Hollywood Ten 
• Joseph McCarthy
• Mao Zedong

First artificial satellite in Earth’s orbit; launched by the Soviet Union in 1957.

• Brinkmanship
• Sputnik
• U-2 Incident
• ICBM