9 in 10 People Can’t Pass This Quiz on the Cold War. Can You?

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?

• Withdraw troops from Iran

• Declare if it had nuclear weapons

• 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?

• South Korea

• The United Nations

• They did not participate

• 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?

• Sign a nuclear disarmament treaty

• Withdraw troops from Germany

• 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

• People's Liberation Army

• Republic of China

• Communist Party of China

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

• Both

• North Vietnam

• Neither

• 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

• Speaking poorly of capitalism

• Accusing people of being a communist

• 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 American run economic organization including Western countries and capitalist states

• An international student-debt relief program

• 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?

• 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?

• Disarmament treaty between the USA and Soviet Union

• Detonate a nuclear bomb in the USSR

• 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?

• Vietnam

• China

• North Korea

• Cuba

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

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Georgy Malenkov

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Nikita Khrushchev

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

• Jimmy Carter

• Richard Nixon

• Gerald Ford

• Ronald Reagan

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

• 1991

• 1990

• 1992

• 1989

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