Cold War Headlines of the 1950s and 1960s Trivia
From Berlin and Cuba to Sputnik, civil defense films, spy-plane headlines, Soviet leaders, nuclear policy, and crisis communication, this challenge revisits the Cold War events that dominated the news in the 1950s and 1960s.
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Trivia Study Guide ›
- Which American pilot was captured after his spy plane was shot down in 1960?
- What 1962 crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union close to nuclear war?
- Which schoolroom film told children to protect themselves during an atomic attack?
- Which hotline was created after the 1962 nuclear standoff to improve direct communication?
- Which failed 1961 invasion was carried out by Cuban exiles backed by the United States?
- Which Soviet satellite shocked Americans when it entered orbit in 1957?
- Which Soviet leader famously visited the United States in 1959?
- Which 1956 uprising against Soviet control was crushed by Warsaw Pact forces?
- Which U.S. policy threatened overwhelming nuclear response to major aggression?
- Which city was divided by a wall built in 1961?
- Which phrase described Eisenhower's warning that falling nations could spread communism across Asia?
- Which 1963 agreement banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater?
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