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Super Hard Cold War Quiz Part 2: 1959-1991
Super Hard Cold War Quiz Part 2: 1959-1991
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Part 2 of a difficult A Level quiz
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1
Which country was the first in Eastern Europe to break with communism?
Hungary
North Korea
Poland
Czechoslovakia
2
"Lunatic on a throne" was a description of....
Khrushchev by Mao
Kim Il Sung by Mao
Mao by Stalin
Mao by Khrushchev
3
Where did Reagan plan to leave communism?
Under a pile of sausages
In the garbage can of history
On the ash heap of history
Inside Andropov's kidneys
4
What was Ronald Reagan's middle name?
Hoover
Wilson
Colin
Taft
5
The right of the USSR to violate a country's sovereignty was called...
The Brezhnev Doctrine
The Doctrine Brezhnev
The Brezhnev Dotrine
The Beznev Doctrine
6
The Berlin Wall was built because...
East Berlin was suffering a "Brain Drain"
Khrushchev was still annoyed by the Disneyland Refusal
All the other three
The Berlin Ultimatum had been ignored
7
Which is the correct order of late 1980s summits?
Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, Moscow, Malta
Geneva, Washington, Moscow, Malta, Reykjavik
Reykjavik, Moscow, Geneva, Malta, Washington
Washington, Reykjavik, Geneva, Moscow, Malta
8
What triggered the SALT talks?
All the other three
Nixon's visit to China
Nixon's visit to Moscow
The USSR achieving nuclear parity
9
Which country withdrew from NATO in 1966, complaining about the UK-USA special relationship?
USA
Spain
France
UK
10
Who declared their policy to the Cold War was "We win and they lose"?
Margaret Thatcher
Donald Trump
Ronald Reagan
Nikita Khrushchev
11
What did the Romanians do with the 20,000 bibles the USA sent them in the late 1970s?
Burned them for winter fuel
Used them as toilet paper due to a shortage
Read them
Used them as cigarette papers
12
Which is the correct order of late 1980s summits in terms of geographic location west to east?
Washington, Reykjavik, Malta, Geneva, Moscow,
Washington, Reykjavik, Geneva, Malta, Moscow
Geneva, Reykjavik, Washington, Moscow, Malta
Washington, Reyjavik, Moscow, Malta, Geneva
13
Which country boycotted the 1980 Olympics?
UK
UN
USA
USSR
14
One reason SALT 2 stalled was because...
Andropov's Kidneys
Jimmy Carter's peanut farm suffered blight
The KGB backed the Nicaraguan Revolution
Angelina Jolie Pitt was too busy with UN work
15
What was the name of the Cuban leader overthrown by Castro
Ennio Morricone
Che Guevara
Fulgencio Batista
Manual Noriega
16
Who was "cut like a freaking steak"?
Castro
Guevara
Nixon
Reagan
17
What did the USA exaggerate the size of during the Cold War?
USSR and Vietnam on maps
Its nuclear weapons stockpiles
Tom Cruise's height
Its sausages
18
What was the reason Khrushchev was ousted in 1964
Building the Berlin Wall (seen as embarrassing)
All the other three
Rudeness & Incompetence
Nearly provoking Nuclear War in 1962
19
Which is the only former Soviet republic that is "double landlocked"?
Kyrgyzstan
Tajikistan
Uzbekistan
Pakistan
20
What did Matthais Rust do in 1987?
Flew from West Germany and landed Red Square
Become the last person killed in no-mans land in Berlin
Attempted to assassinate David Hasslehoff
Escaped over the Berlin Wall
