Cold War

Question 1

Dennis Rodman is not the only famous American to visit NK. Which of the following did also?

Accepted Answer

All of the Above

Question 2

In what year did the USSR develop its own nuclear bomb?

Accepted Answer

1949

Question 3

Why was Laika the dog famous?

Accepted Answer

Laika was the first dog in space

Question 4

Which nation did NOT belong to NATO?

Accepted Answer

Poland

Question 5

What's another name for the developing world?

Accepted Answer

3rd World

Question 6

The Bay of Pigs was an attempt to overthrow which leader?

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 7

The Soviet leader who openly denounced Stalin was...

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 8

The plan to provide economic aid to Western Europe after World War II was the...

Accepted Answer

Marshall Plan

Question 9

Which 1960 event led to a spy exchange between the U.S. & U.S.S.R.?

Accepted Answer

the U-2 incident

Question 10

The Domino Theory especially applied to which region?

Accepted Answer

Asia

Question 11

Conflicts in which rival powers finance and arm competing factions are known as...

Accepted Answer

proxy wars

Question 12

This "nation" experienced a bloody civil war in the 1990's

Accepted Answer

Yugoslavia

Question 13

The 1957 event that triggered the space race between the US & USSR was...

Accepted Answer

the launching of Sputnik

Question 14

What was the range of the Sunbelt states?

Accepted Answer

Florida- California

Question 15

How did the USSR view Eastern Europe after WWII?

Accepted Answer

buffer zone

Question 16

An violent uprising against Soviet control took place in 1956 in which country?

Accepted Answer

Hungary

Question 17

What city the the USSR blockade in the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 18

What was the goal of the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

To provide assistance to democratic nations affected by authoritarian force

Question 19

The Warsaw Pact sought to:

Accepted Answer

Create a military alliance between the USSR and Eastern European nations

Question 20

Which U.S. President referred to the Soviet Union as the "evil empire"?

Accepted Answer

Reagan

Question 21

This is an image of...

Accepted Answer

Chernobyl

Question 22

When was the baby boom?

Accepted Answer

1946-1964

Question 23

He helped to bring about the end of the Cold War w/ glasnost & perestroika

Accepted Answer

Gorbachev

Question 24

The red nations belong to...

Accepted Answer

the Warsaw Pact

Question 25

A relaxation in the Cold War tensions in known as..

Accepted Answer

detente

Question 26

Who proposed the Fair Deal

Accepted Answer

Harry Truman

Question 27

What was the Iron Curtain?

Accepted Answer

The imaginary boundary dividing Eastern and Western Europe

Question 28

What is the subtitle of Stanley Kubrick’s 1964 satire of the military, Dr Strangelove?

Accepted Answer

or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Question 29

The pro-Communist North Vietnamese were known as the...

Accepted Answer

Viet Cong

Question 30

The Soviet Union's version of the U.S.'s Vietnam War can be seen with the invasion of...

Accepted Answer

Afghanistan

Question 31

Most historians think the Cold War came to an end in the...

Accepted Answer

early 1990's

Question 32

The area described as being the USSR's "satellites" was...

Accepted Answer

Eastern Europe

Question 33

Under the Truman Doctrine, the U.S. provided aid to Greece and….

Accepted Answer

Turkey

Question 34

What was the Truman Doctrine?

Accepted Answer

a foreign policy with the goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion

Question 35

President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur over which issue?

Accepted Answer

the use of nuclear weapons in Korea

Question 36

During the Cold War, Decolonization mainly occurred in ....

Accepted Answer

Africa

Question 37

Which of these nations was NOT a communist nation that survived the Cold War?

Accepted Answer

Japan

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