Cold War Quiz

Question 1

CHALLENGE: How Much Money was sent to Europe via The Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

12 Billion

Question 2

What was the Bay of Pigs?

Accepted Answer

A beach that could have been the spearhead of the invasion of Cuba., An attempted assault on Cuba to over throw government.

Question 3

WHO is the man that made Cuba Communist?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 4

The Cold War took place in winter.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 5

What soured relations between the Two Countries?

Accepted Answer

USSR occupied its countries instead of liberating them.

Question 6

CHALLENGE: How did Stalin die?

Accepted Answer

Cerebral Hemorage.

Question 7

What did stalin do to East Germany before his death?

Accepted Answer

Keep weak and destroyed., Force Communism on it., Blockade.

Question 8

What did the US find in Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Soviet Nuclear Missiles

Question 9

How did the US react? (The quicker you choose the correct answer the more points you get).

Accepted Answer

Anaconda Plan (2.0), Train Exiles to Overthrow Cuban Government, Blockade, Plan for invasion

Question 10

The Bay of Pigs invasion was______.

Accepted Answer

A Victory for Castro., A Defeat for Kennedy.

Question 11

Who took over after Stalin's death? N.........

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 12

CHALLENGE: What was Stalin's economic plan that battled The Marshall Plan?

Accepted Answer

Comecon

Question 13

What was the name of the Cuban Exile program? (Be careful 3 of the Brigades do not exist!)

Accepted Answer

Brigade 2506

Question 14

What was Cominform?

Accepted Answer

Strengthened grip on USSR Puppet Governments.

Question 15

What had decended across Europe? (Specific name)

Accepted Answer

An Iron Curtain

Question 16

What was implemented to counteract the NATO treaty?

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 17

Who was the United States ally with during WWII?

Accepted Answer

U.S.S.R

Question 18

What is NATO?

Accepted Answer

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation.

Question 19

CHALLENGE: What was the name of the operation that trained exiles for invasion of Cuba?

Accepted Answer

Operation Bumpy Road

Question 20

CHALLENGE: How (technically) did the Cold War end?

Accepted Answer

SALT agreements were created., When Mikhail Gorbachev became president of USSR., With the Collapse of the USSR.

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