Cold War

Question 1

Which Australian Prime Minister disappeared during the height of the Cold War prompting rumors?

Accepted Answer

Harold Holt

Question 2

The girls of the class are usually called:

Accepted Answer

by their last names

Question 3

Where do Readman & Champion live?

Accepted Answer

Eltham

Question 4

When was the Tet Offensive?

Accepted Answer

1968

Question 5

Who were three individuals who factored in the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Castro, Kennedy, Khrushchev

Question 6

What happened first

Accepted Answer

Yalta Conference

Question 7

Where were the Viet Cong?

Accepted Answer

South Vietnam

Question 8

Who was the Soviet premier during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 9

When was the ANZUS treaty signed?

Accepted Answer

1951

Question 10

What extolled the virtues of McCarthyism?

Accepted Answer

House Un-American Activities Committee

Question 11

How many Australian troops died in the Vietnam War?

Accepted Answer

520

Question 12

Who was Secretary of State under Nixon and ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia?

Accepted Answer

Henry Kissinger

Question 13

What was the Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

US aid for European nations affected by WWII

Question 14

What catchphrase was important in understanding support for the USA in Australia?

Accepted Answer

All the way with LBJ

Question 15

How did the dropping of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki impact upon the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

arms race & challenge to Russia

Question 16

What term was used to describe keeping communists where they were located

Accepted Answer

containment

Question 17

What was MAD?

Accepted Answer

mutually assured destruction

Question 18

Who was Laika

Accepted Answer

the first dog in space

Question 19

When was SEATO created?

Accepted Answer

1954

Question 20

What country did not actually ended up falling to communism?

Accepted Answer

Thailand

Question 21

Who was the leader of South Vietnam and assassinated?

Accepted Answer

Diem

Question 22

What subject should Charles have done

Accepted Answer

Drama, Frozen Studies

Question 23

What happened in 1962?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 24

When did Cold War tensions begin

Accepted Answer

end of WWII

Question 25

What is old name for Ho Chi Minh City?

Accepted Answer

Saigon

Question 26

What were considered to be proxy wars of the Cold War

Accepted Answer

Vietnam, Korea, Bay of Pigs, Malaysia

Question 27

Who coined the term 'cold war'?

Accepted Answer

George Orwell

Question 28

US Presidents in chronological order during the Cold War through 1975

Accepted Answer

Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford,

Question 29

Who penned the term 'the Iron Curtain'

Accepted Answer

Winston Churchill

Question 30

Who was the prince who became Prime Minister then was deposed in a coup?

Accepted Answer

Sihanouk

Question 31

Which countries played a part in the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

Greece & Turkey

Question 32

What is in the correct chronological order

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift, Korean War, Sputnik,Bay of Pigs, Berlin Wall

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