Cold War Background

Question 1

What did spy satellites show were in Cuba in 1962?

Accepted Answer

Nuclear Missiles

Question 2

The Cuban Missile Crisis occurred in the year...

Accepted Answer

1962

Question 3

The "Third World" referred to...

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Counties not allied with the USA or USSR

Question 4

West Germany was allied to...

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The USA

Question 5

The US landing here turned the tide of the Korean war

Accepted Answer

Inchon

Question 6

The leader of North Korea during the Korean War

Accepted Answer

Kim il sung

Question 7

What does Article 5 of the NATO treaty state?

Accepted Answer

An attack on one is an attack on all

Question 8

Which country is this?

Accepted Answer

North Korea

Question 9

Which is not a permanent member of the UN security council?

Accepted Answer

India

Question 10

Who is this?

Accepted Answer

JFK

Question 11

The goal of the Marshall Plan was to...

Accepted Answer

Help Europe rebuild

Question 12

Leader of Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis

Accepted Answer

Fidel Castro

Question 13

Which event started the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

North Korea invading South Korea

Question 14

The Second World referred to...

Accepted Answer

The USSR and its allies

Question 15

Which country is this?

Accepted Answer

USSR

Question 16

Conditions during the Korean War were similar to...

Accepted Answer

World War 1

Question 17

Which of these countries did NOT occupy Germany after WW2?

Accepted Answer

Italy

Question 18

Who was president when the atomic bombs were first used?

Accepted Answer

Truman

Question 19

This person ruled the USSR after Stalin

Accepted Answer

Khrushchev

Question 20

The alliance that the US and its allies joined

Accepted Answer

NATO

Question 21

The First World referred to...

Accepted Answer

The US and its allies

Question 22

When the US and UK dropped supplies on a city in East Germany

Accepted Answer

Berlin Airlift

Question 23

Communism is all about...

Accepted Answer

Equality

Question 24

The alliance the Soviet Union's allies all joined

Accepted Answer

Warsaw Pact

Question 25

What are you supposed to do when there is an atomic blast nearby?

Accepted Answer

Duck and Cover

Question 26

This is the capital of Germany

Accepted Answer

Berlin

Question 27

South Korea is

Accepted Answer

Capitalist

Question 28

Cuba is more...

Accepted Answer

Communist

Question 29

The result of the Korean War was...

Accepted Answer

Stalemate

Question 30

Many people in the US were afraid of this in the 1950s:

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Communism

Question 31

This country sent soldiers to fight against UN forces in Korea

Accepted Answer

China

Question 32

What is the name of the 30 year conflict between the US and Soviet Union?

Accepted Answer

The Cold War

Question 33

Which country is this?

Accepted Answer

China

Question 34

During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the US Navy...

Accepted Answer

Blockaded Cuba

Question 35

The Castle Bravo test was an example of a...

Accepted Answer

Hydrogen Bomb

Question 36

China is ruled by the __________ Party

Accepted Answer

Communist

Question 37

NATO and the Korean War were a part of this policy:

Accepted Answer

Containment

Question 38

The USSR tested an atomic bomb in this year

Accepted Answer

1949

Question 39

The leader of South Korea during the Korean War

Accepted Answer

Syngman Rhee

Question 40

North Korea was/is

Accepted Answer

Communist

Question 41

Which of the following best describes NATO?

Accepted Answer

All members will defend each other

Question 42

East Germany was allies with

Accepted Answer

The USSR

Question 43

The first object put into Earth's orbit

Accepted Answer

Sputnik

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