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A revision quiz to test your #ColdWar knowledge
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1
Who first used the phrase Iron Curtain?
President John F Kennedy
President Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Joseph Stalin
2
Which of the following leaders was NOT present at The Potsdam Conference?
Harry Truman
Winston Churchill
Franklin Roosevelt
Joseph Stalin
3
What was Dètente?
The ceasefire between the Communists and Nationalists
Monday afternoon detention
The period before the Cold War
The lowering of tensions during the Cold War
4
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Castro supported what action?
A conference to find a diplomatic solution
Preemptive nuclear strike
Removal of all Soviet weapons and forces out of Cuba
A military quarantine
5
Mikhail Gorbachev was considered...
The primary architect of Sovietisation
The leader who brought the Cold War to a close
The Dude
The Russian leader who destroyed the Soviet Union
6
Who was the first man in space?
Laika
Buzz Aldrin
John Glenn
Yuri Gagarin
7
Where did the Bay of Pigs incident take place?
China
Korea
Cuba
USSR
8
Which two American Presidents are associated with the end of the Cold War?
Nixon and Bush
Reagan and Bush
JFK and Nixon
JFK and Reagan
9
Who challenged Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"?
Ronald Reagan
The people of Germany
Donald Reagan
JFK
10
Who replaced Stalin as leader of the USSR?
Gorbachev
Pete
Khrushchev
Lenin
11
In a Communist ideology, the property should be owned by...
By individual members of the proletariat
The community
By the bourgeoisie
By four-legged animals
12
What was the central aim of the Space Race?
Improve defence capabilities
Advancement of humankind
Cold War propaganda
Moon cheese
13
The Domino Theory was...
US fear of Sovietisation
A fear of curtains
The suspicion of dormant Communist spies in the US
US justification of foreign policy during Cold War
14
Perestroika refers to...
The suffering of the Soviet People
Implementation of Capitalist economic policies
The removal of intercontinental missiles
Greater openness to political freedoms
15
Ho Chi Minh was the leader of...
Viet Cong
Vietnamese Colonial Government
Vietnamese Peace Society
Viet Minh
16
The Marshall Plan was a part of what post WW2 policy?
Solidarity
The Truman Doctrine
The US's policy of Intervention
The Potsdam Conference
17
Who does this drawing depict?
Kruschchev
Castro
Stalin
Communists
18
The Korean War took place between the years of...
1959-63
1950-55
1950-53
1968-72
19
The phrase the Iron Curtain was used to explain what?
The Sovietisation of Eastern Europe
Post World War 2 European policies
A really thick curtain
The Berlin Wall
20
Which of these was NOT one of Gorbachev's initiatives?
Dètente
Glasnost and Perestroika
Declaring of the end of the Cold War
Encouraging nuclear disarmament
21
Which phrase best describes the impact of the Cold War? The Cold War...
Ushered in great technological advances
Was a useless waste of resources and money
Was the defining ideological battle of the 20th Century
Was a war with no direct conflicts
22
What policy was central to the Truman Doctrine?
Doctrine-y
Interventionism
Containment
Decolonisation
23
What country became Communist in 1949?
China
Turkey
Czechoslovakia
North Korea
24
Nationalism is...
A movement to form new countries out of former colonies
Having national pride under a capitalistic ideology
An ideology that promotes putting the nation above all else
An extreme form of patriotism
25
Which US Senator came to represent the second Red Scare?
Sen. John McCain
Sen. Paul McCartney
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
Sen. Joseph Stalin
26
Which of the following was NOT a key factor in the collapse of the USSR?
The Soviet people's desire for change
More open government
The Soviet's inability to compete in the Space Race
The impending bankruptcy of the Soviet Union
27
The Berlin Blockade was designed to do what?
Demonstrate USSR's might
Incorporate Berlin into East Germany
Block off West Berlin
Challenge US dominance in Europe
28
When was the Berlin Wall built?
1958
1963
1945
1961
29
Nguyen Sinh Cung led a revolution against whom?
The Vietnamese
The French
The British
The Chinese
30
How long was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A week
One year
10 days
13 days
