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What do you know about the Cold War?
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1
In a 1987 speech in Berlin, who challenged Soviet leader Gorbachev to "tear down this wall"?
Margaret Thatcher
Willy Brandt
George Bush
Ronald Reagan
2
Boycotted by several nations as a political protest, the 1980 Olympic Games were held where?
Moscow
Atlanta
Los Angeles
Warsaw
3
What name was adopted by Islamic "freedom fighters" in the 1980's.
Green Crescent
Al Qaeda
Hamas
Mujahideen
4
Announced in March 1983, the Strategic Defence Initiative, or SDI, was often referred to as?
Star Trek
Star Wars
Space Odyssey
Space Lasers
5
In which year did Soviet troops move into the Afghanistan following political instability?
1979
1981
1975
1971
6
In 1989 a huge gap in the Iron Curtain appeared, when two nations agreed to open their borders?
Hungary and Italy
East Germany and France
Hungary and Austria
Soviet Union and China
7
A critical Cold War incident occurred in September 1983, when Soviet jets shot down a... ?
Japanese Military Plane
British Cargo Plane
Korean Passenger Plane
American U-2 Spy Plane
8
Implemented by Mikhail Gorbachev in the 1980s,
glasnost
is translated to English as... ?
Openness
Truthfulness
Flexibility
Diversity
9
In 1966 Ronald Reagan, a former Hollywood actor, was elected governor of which US state?
Texas
New York
California
Florida
10
By the early 1980s the Soviet Union could not produce sufficient quantities of which product?
Oil
Grain
Steel
Vodka
11
In April 1986 an explosion caused devastation in Chernobyl, a nuclear plant located where?
Moscow
Latvia
Siberia
Ukraine
12
In 1991 the Soviet Union was dissolved and replaced by which federated group of nations?
Russian Coalition
Moscow Alliance
Warsaw Pact
Commonwealth of Independent States