Cold War for 7th Graders

Question 1

What do you call our economic system?

Accepted Answer

capitalism

Question 2

What proxy war did the Americans lose in the 70's?

Accepted Answer

Vietnam War

Question 3

What was the first living thing launched into space?

Accepted Answer

Dog

Question 4

Who was the Soviet leader during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Stalin

Question 5

How do you spell USSR in Cyrillic?

Accepted Answer

CCCP

Question 6

What was the closest we came to nuclear war?

Accepted Answer

Soviet false alarm: satellite reflections

Question 7

What former Soviet republic is having a civil war right now?

Accepted Answer

Ukraine

Question 8

What city was blockaded by the Soviets?

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 9

What year did the Soviet Union dissolve?

Accepted Answer

1989

Question 10

Who was not an ally during WWII?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 11

Where did President Kennedy call himself "a jelly doughnut?"

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 12

What country was divided in half after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Germany

Question 13

What is the name of the alliance between the USA, Canada, Western Europe and others called?

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 14

What year was Sputnik launched?

Accepted Answer

1957

Question 15

Who was Cuba's communist dictator?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 16

What weapon did both countries make after the atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

hydrogen bomb

Question 17

What city was divided between the Allies and the Soviets after World War II?

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 18

What word means to "cool off"?

Accepted Answer

Detente

Question 19

Who was first country to develop the atomic bomb?

Accepted Answer

USA

Question 20

What are symbols of Soviet communism?

Accepted Answer

Hammer and Sickle

Question 21

What was President Kennedy's great crisis?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missle Crisis

Question 22

What was the border between the Warsaw Pact and NATO countries called?

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 23

What was the name of the first Russian vehicle into space?

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

Question 24

Who was the father of the Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

Lenin

Question 25

What Soviet ruler told Kennedy "We will bury you!"

Accepted Answer

Kruzchev

Question 26

Who took over for Stalin when Stalin died. He erased any mention of Stalin.

Accepted Answer

Kruschev

Question 27

What is NOT part of the nuclear triad?

Accepted Answer

trains

Question 28

What do you call a Soviet spaceman?

Accepted Answer

Cosmonaut

Question 29

What sporting event united the USA against the USSR?

Accepted Answer

1980 Olympic hockey

Question 30

What is the symbolic color of communism?

Accepted Answer

Red

Question 31

Which of the following were absorbed into the Soviet Union after WWII?

Accepted Answer

Baltic Countries

Question 32

What do you call a war fought in smaller countries but funded by larger countries?

Accepted Answer

Proxy War

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