The Cold War is widely believed to have begun shortly after the end of what major military conflict?
World War I
Korean War
Vietnam War
World War II
What did President Truman demand the USSR do on March 10th, 1946?
Declare if it had nuclear weapons
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Withdraw troops from Afghanistan
Withdraw troops from Iran
The Korean War lasted from 1950–53. Which side did the Soviet Union support during the war?
North Korea
They did not participate
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?
Abandon a newly introduced currency in Germany
Withdraw troops from Iran
Withdraw troops from Germany
Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty
Beginning in 1946, what side of the Chinese Civil War was American troops fighting for?
Communist Party of China
Republic of China
They did not participate
People's Liberation Army
The Vietnam War was fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam. Which side was communist?
Neither
South Vietnam
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
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 American run economic organization including Western countries and capitalist states
An international student-debt relief program
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?
Vandalizing Joseph McCarthy's house with toilet paper
Working for Soviet film productions
Refusing to answer questions about their communist ties
Sending film trade secrets to the USSR
What was the believed purpose of Project A119?
Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR
Send a Soviet cosmonaut to the Moon
Disarmament treaty between the USA and Soviet Union
Detonate a nuclear bomb on the Moon
The Bay of Pigs Invasion is another name for the attempted and aborted American invasion of what country in 1961?
North Korea
Cuba
China
Vietnam
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1961?
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid Brezhnev
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
Ronald Reagan
Gerald Ford
Richard Nixon
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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