The Cold War is widely believed to have begun shortly after the end of what major military conflict?
World War II
Korean War
World War I
Vietnam War
What did President Truman demand the USSR do on March 10th, 1946?
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Withdraw troops from Iran
Declare if it had nuclear weapons
The Korean War lasted from 1950–53. Which side did the Soviet Union support during the war?
North Korea
South Korea
The United Nations
They did not participate
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?
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Withdraw troops from Iran
Withdraw troops from Germany
Abandon a newly introduced currency in Germany
Beginning in 1946, what side of the Chinese Civil War was American troops fighting for?
They did not participate
Republic of China
Communist Party of China
People's Liberation Army
The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Which side was communist?
South Vietnam
Neither
Both
North 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
Speaking poorly of capitalism
Sending military secrets to the USSR
Accusing people of being a communist
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
An American run economic organization including Western countries and capitalist states
Soviet run economic organization including socialist and Eastern Bloc states
A trade pact between the USA and USSR
What were the members of the Hollywood Ten (a group of screenwriters and directors from Hollywood) sent to prison for in 1947?
Sending film trade secrets to the USSR
Vandalizing Joseph McCarthy's house with toilet paper
Working for Soviet film productions
Refusing to answer questions about their communist ties
What was the believed purpose of Project A119?
Send a Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon
Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR
Detonate a nuclear bomb on 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?
Cuba
China
Vietnam
North Korea
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961?
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgy Malenkov
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 II
Rocky IV
Rocky III
Rocky V
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