The Cold War is widely believed to have begun shortly after the end of what major military conflict?
World War II
Korean War
Vietnam War
World War I
What did President Truman demand the USSR do on March 10th, 1946?
Withdraw troops from Iran
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Declare if it had nuclear weapons
The Korean War lasted from 1950–53. Which side did the Soviet Union support during the war?
They did not participate
The United Nations
South Korea
North Korea
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?
Abandon a newly introduced currency in Germany
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Withdraw troops from Germany
Withdraw troops from Iran
Beginning in 1946, what side of the Chinese Civil War was American troops fighting for?
People's Liberation Army
Communist Party of China
Republic of China
They did not participate
The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Which side was communist?
North Vietnam
Neither
Both
South Vietnam
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
Sending military secrets to the USSR
Speaking poorly of capitalism
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
Soviet run economic organization including socialist and Eastern Bloc states
A trade pact between the USA and USSR
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?
Refusing to answer questions about their communist ties
Sending film trade secrets to the USSR
Working for Soviet film productions
Vandalizing Joseph McCarthy's house with toilet paper
What was the believed purpose of Project A119?
Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR
Disarmament treaty between the USA and Soviet Union
Detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
Send a Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon
The Bay of Pigs Invasion is another name for the attempted and aborted American invasion of what country in 1961?
China
Vietnam
North Korea
Cuba
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961?
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgy Malenkov
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
What U.S. president famously said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" during his Berlin Wall Speech in 1987?
Ronald Reagan
Richard Nixon
Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
The Cold War ended with the fall of the Soviet Union, which occurred on December 26th of what year?
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
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