How Well Do You Know the Cold War?

The Cold War is widely believed to have begun shortly after the end of what major military conflict?

• World War I

• World War II

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

What did President Truman demand the USSR do on March 10th, 1946?

• Declare if it had nuclear weapons

• Withdraw troops from Iran

• Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty

• Withdraw troops from Afghanistan

The Korean War lasted from 1950–53. Which side did the Soviet Union support during the war?

• They did not participate

• North Korea

• South Korea

• The United Nations

In 1948, the USSR placed a blockade between Western Germany and Western Berlin, cutting the US and Britain off from supplies. What did the Soviet Union demand the two countries do in order for them to lift the blockade?

• Withdraw troops from Germany

• Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty

• Withdraw troops from Iran

• Abandon a newly introduced currency in Germany

Beginning in 1946, what side of the Chinese Civil War was American troops fighting for?

• People's Liberation Army

• They did not participate

• Communist Party of China

• Republic of China

The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Which side was communist?

• South Vietnam

• North Vietnam

• Both

• Neither

During the 1940s and 1950s in the United States, if someone was said to be engaging in "McCarthyism", what was that person doing?

• Running an electoral campaign for Senator Joseph McCarthy

• Accusing people of being a communist

• Speaking poorly of capitalism

• Sending military secrets to the USSR

The organization "Comecon" or "Council for Mutual Economic Assistance" was established in 1949 and lasted until 1991. What was it?

• An international student-debt relief program

• A trade pact between the USA and USSR

• Soviet run economic organization including socialist and Eastern Bloc states

• An American run economic organization including Western countries and capitalist states

What were the members of the Hollywood Ten (a group of screenwriters and directors from Hollywood) sent to prison for in 1947?

• Working for Soviet film productions

• Vandalizing Joseph McCarthy's house with toilet paper

• Sending film trade secrets to the USSR

• Refusing to answer questions about their communist ties

What was the believed purpose of Project A119?

• Detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon

• Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR

• Send a Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon

• Disarmament treaty between the USA and Soviet Union

The Bay of Pigs Invasion is another name for the attempted and aborted American invasion of what country in 1961?

• North Korea

• China

• Vietnam

• Cuba

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Georgy Malenkov

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

What U.S. president famously said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" during his Berlin Wall Speech in 1987?

• Ronald Reagan

• Gerald Ford

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, which occurred on December 26th of what year?

• 1992

• 1990

• 1989

• 1991

Which film in the Rocky series takes place during the Cold War era in the 1980s and is widely considered to be symbolic of the Cold War itself?

• Rocky III

• Rocky IV

• Rocky V

• Rocky II