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1
What mini series in 1983 was about fictional war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact?
The War of the Worlds
The Day After Tomorrow
The Day After
The Day Before
2
Which of the following songs is about the Cold War?
"Crazy Train"
"Land of Confusion"
"1999"
all above
3
Who made these words famous: "I shall return!"?
Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower
Gen Douglas MacArthur
Gen George S.Patton, Jr.
Gen George C. Marshall
4
Who became the leader of the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin died?
Nikita Khrushchev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Lenin
Lavrentiy Beria
5
Who coined the term "cold war"?
George Orwell
Ronald Reagan
Bernard Baruch
Both Baruch and Orwell
6
Who said......"An Iron Curtain has descended across the continent."
Roosevelt
Stalin
Truman
Churchill
7
Detente was a term coined by which president? (a more relaxed policy toward the Soviets)
Johnson
Kennedy
Reagan
Nixon
8
The Bay of Pigs took place during the presidency of?
Johnson
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Nixon
9
The CIA secretly spiked which item with LSD? (part of mind control experiment in France)
bread
soda
a donut
vodka
10
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT): SALT I was signed by:
Trotsky and Bush
Nixon and Brezhnev,
Gorbachev and Nixon
Gorbachev and Bush
11
Mr. Potato Head and diet soda were invented during which decade?
the 1950s
the 1940s
the 1960s
the 1970s
12
Who is recognized as the "father" of the atomic bomb?
Powers
Marshall
Einstein
Oppenheimer
13
Which president signed an act which created 41,000 miles of interstate roads/highways?
Eisenhower
Johnson
Nixon
Kennedy
14
Which leader said to Mao Zedong, "Berlin is the testicles of the West"
Lenin
Stalin
Putin
Khrushchev
15
Which of the following leaders were at Yalta to discuss the peace after World War II?
Stalin
Roosevelt
All of the above
Churchill
16
SPUTNIK IV was launched at Balkanur, USSR, May 14, 1960-a piece landed in
Michicot, WI
Madison, WI
Merrill, WI
Manitowoc, WI
17
Eisenhower adopted a policy of _______ to deter a Soviet nuclear attack.
massive retaliation
non-proliferation
Vietnamization
non of the above
18
During the Cold War, the U.S. sent Romania _______________?
toilet paper
pamphlets
condoms
bibles
19
Which was a result of the Cold War?
Vietnam War
All of the above
Cuban Missile Crisis
Berlin Crisis of 1961
20
Chiang Kai Shek was the leader of which country?
Japan
China
the Philippines
Vietnam
21
The _____ provided vital supplies to a region blockaded by the Soviet Union.
HUAC
Truman Doctrine
Marshall Plan
Berlin Airlift
22
The U.S.considered dropping large _____________ onto the USSR in order to demoralize them.
pamphlets
condoms
bats
Playboys
23
What was Joe 1?
Joseph Stalin
an American atomic bomb
Fidel Castro's airplane
a Soviet atomic bomb
24
In which decade did the Cold War end?
2000s
1980s
1970s
1990s
25
After World War II, American leaders developed a policy of ____ to resist and stop the Soviets.
isolationism
massive retaliation
containment
mutually assured destruction