The Cold War is widely believed to have begun shortly after the end of what major military conflict?
World War I
Vietnam War
Korean War
World War II
What did President Truman demand the USSR do on March 10th, 1946?
Withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Withdraw troops from Iran
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Declare if it had nuclear weapons
The Korean War lasted from 1950โ53. Which side did the Soviet Union support during the war?
North Korea
The United Nations
They did not participate
South 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?
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?
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?
Neither
North Vietnam
South Vietnam
Both
During the 1940s and 1950s in the United States, if someone was said to be engaging in "McCarthyism", what was that person doing?
Accusing people of being a communist
Speaking poorly of capitalism
Sending military secrets to the USSR
Running an electoral campaign for Senator Joseph McCarthy
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
A trade pact between the USA and USSR
Soviet run economic organization including socialist and Eastern Bloc states
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
Working for Soviet film productions
Vandalizing Joseph McCarthy's house with toilet paper
Refusing to answer questions about their communist ties
What was the believed purpose of Project A119?
Disarmament treaty between the USA and Soviet Union
Detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
Send a Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon
Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR
The Bay of Pigs Invasion is another name for the attempted and aborted American invasion of what country in 1961?
Cuba
North Korea
China
Vietnam
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961?
Leonid Brezhnev
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgy Malenkov
Mikhail Gorbachev
What U.S. president famously said "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall" during his Berlin Wall Speech in 1987?
Jimmy Carter
Richard Nixon
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
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 V
Rocky IV
Rocky II
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