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Cold War Vargo

Cold War

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CIA Central Intelligence Agency
NATO North American Treaty Organization
SALT Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty
HUAC House Committee on UnAmerican Activities
USSR Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
First Civilian executed for espionage (spy) in US history Rosenbergs
Calendar year the Cuban Missile Crisis took place 1962
He started a revolution in Cuba Fidel Castro
He was shot down while spying over Russia in his U-2 Plane Francis Gary Powers
Nuclear weapon developed by the US in 1952 and Russian in 1953 Hydrogen Bomb
Year of the Bay of Pigs Invasion in Cuba 1961
Year the Berlin Wall was torn down 1989
Soviet Cosmonaut who was the 1st man in outer space in Vostok I Yuri Gagarin
Year Sputnik I was successfully launched by the USSR 1957
Laika, was this type of animal that went up in Sputnik II Dog
Imres Nagy was the president of this USSR satellite country in 1956 Hungary
In 1954 the CIA helped overthrow Jacobo Arbenz Guzman in this country Guatemala
Leader of the Chinese Nationalists who lost out to communists Chang Kai Shek
USSR supported this Egyptian President in the Suez Crisis Gamal Nasser
American General who said "Old soldiers never die, they just fade away" Douglas MacAurther
This war lasted from 1945 to 1992 Cold War
The last President of the USSR Michail Gorbachev
Nuclear Meltdowns happened in the US and the USSR at these locations Three Mile Island 1979 US Chernobyl (1986) USSR
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