Cold War Quiz

What was the name given to the frantic search of communist spies in the USA in the 1950s?

How did the Americans discover that nuclear missiles were being installed into Cuba in 1962?

Who did Richard Nixon succeed as president of the USA?

How long did the Berlin Wall divide Berlin for?

In January 1968, who replaced Novotny as Czech leader?

What did SALT stand for?

Which of these were agreements made at the Yalta conference?

Which facts are true about the Vienna Summit in 1961?

according to the soviets, why was the Berlin Wall built?

Who got the biggest sector of Berlin?

when was Comecon created?

In which year did the Berlin blockade begin?

what was the American stance on the Berlin Wall

Did East Berlin or West Berlin have a better economic situation by 1960?

What did Dubcek want to introduce?

What did Kennedy agree to, in exchange for the removal of missiles from Cuba?

When was Sputnik made to orbit the Earth?

In what year did Churchill first use the term ‘iron curtain’?

Who came up with the ideology of communism?

Which one of the following was not a reason for détente?

what was the Berlin airlift called by the Americans?

When did Nixon visit China?

What was the Brezhnev Doctrine specifically designed to address?

Which country received the most amount of Marshall aid - 3.2bn?

Which of the following was not a cause of the Hungarian revolution of 1956?

Select one of the changes that was made by Dubcek:

What was America's excuse for the U2 spy plane?

The Brezhnev Doctrine came after unrest in which country?

Who was the American president in the Vienna Summit?

What was the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship?

Who detonated a bomb on 10/10/1961 that was more powerful than all the explosives used in WWII combined?

Which of the following was not a key reason for détente in the late 1960s?

What caused Fidel Castro to look to the Soviet Union for military help?

Which General wanted to use nuclear weapons in the Korean War?

Truman told Attlee and Stalin in advance before he dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, true or false?

What did Nagy announce on the 1 st November that made krushchev send in troops?

What is the name of the message sent by Kennan in Feb 1946?

Why did Castro lead a revolt against the government?

Who was the president in charge when the US developed its atomic bomb?

Where was the second atomic bomb dropped in Japan?

What year was the Berlin Wall demolished?

When was NATO formed?

Who was the first human in space?

When did the first human go into space?

Who led the USSR at the beginning of the 1970s?

What was the name of the official checkpoint between East and West Berlin?

What date did the Soviets invade Czechoslovakia?

In which year did the communists take power in China?