Cold War Quiz World Cultures

Question 1

Fidel Castro and Che Guevara are associated with which country?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 2

What term, coined by Winston Churchill, refers to the border between capitalist and communist Europe?

Accepted Answer

iron curtain

Question 3

The Bay of Pigs invasion was launched in which country?

Accepted Answer

Cuba

Question 4

What figurative "barrier" separated capitalist Europe from communist Europe?

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 5

Which of the following was not a member of NATO?

Accepted Answer

East Germany

Question 6

Who was the first human in space?

Accepted Answer

Yuri Gagarin

Question 7

What satellite did the Soviets launch into space in October 1957, thereby winning the space race?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 8

Which term is best associated with Mahatma Gandhi?

Accepted Answer

nonviolence

Question 9

Which of the following was not a member of Warsaw Pact?

Accepted Answer

Portugal

Question 10

In 1948, the Soviet Union blockaded which city?

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 11

Nelson Mandela is most associated with his role in ending the policy of

Accepted Answer

apartheid

Question 12

In what year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Accepted Answer

1989

Question 13

The USA gave $400 Million to Greece and Turkey through which policy?

Accepted Answer

Truman Doctrine

Question 14

How did the US respond to the Berlin Blockade?

Accepted Answer

airlifting food and supplies

Question 15

Who became leader of the Soviet Union in 1953, shortly after Stalin's death?

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 16

Who was the first communist leader of China?

Accepted Answer

Mao Zedong

Question 17

The policies of perestroika and glasnost are associated with

Accepted Answer

Gorbachev

Question 18

The US policy of stopping the spread of communism is known as

Accepted Answer

containment

Questions 18