This country had tensions with the US during the Cold War.

South Vietnamese communist guerilla fighters who supported North Vietnamese rule.

Two Asian countries that were fought over during the Korean War, are still separate today.

The island in the Gulf of Mexico in which the Soviet Union placed nuclear launching facilities capable of swift launch into major US cities.

The first joint mission to space between the US and the Soviet Union.

The political ideal that states all property is owned by the government and all resources are spread evenly.

Map feature that separated North from South Vietnam.

Founder/Dictator of North Korea during the Korean War, grandfather of Kim Jong-un

This man was president of the US during the Cuban Missile Crisis and a huge component of the Civil Rights Movement.

A cosmonaut, the first human to leave the Earth's atmosphere and enter space.

A not-so-friendly competition between the USSR and the US to make breakthroughs in the future of interplanetary travel.

Pro-Vietnam war activists, often clashed with "Doves"

A currently-Communist country that backed North Korea during the Korean War.

A bomb that splits an atom, releasing enough energy to scorch everything in a 3 km radius.

First human on the moon, known for saying, "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

Metaphorical wall that separated the worlds of Communism and Capitalism.

Disliked dictator of South Vietnam who was killed in a military coup.

Chinese dictator during the Korean War, responsible for a huge population growth under his rule but also for between 40-70 million deaths because of starvation and executions.

The idea that if one country were to attack another with nuclear weapons, that country will retaliate.

American organization in charge of advances in the future of space travel. Founded in 1958 by Dwight Eisenhower with a strictly peaceful orientation rather than for military use.

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union.

A country in southwestern Europe, colonized Vietnam until 1954.

The US need to go to war, if necessary, to stop the spread of Communism through Asia.

This event lasted only 13 days but almost brought the US and Soviet Union to total nuclear war.

Passed into law in 1958 as part of Eisenhower's science initiative, funded education in the US at all levels in order to surpass the Soviet Union's scientists in ability.