Cold War Review

Question 1

What was the outcome of the Korean War?

Accepted Answer

Nothing changed.

Question 2

True or False: Anti-Communist North Korea invaded Communist South Korea.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 3

What was the purpose of the Berlin Wall?

Accepted Answer

To separate East Germans from West Germans.

Question 4

What was the purpose of the Berlin airlift?

Accepted Answer

To bring food and supplies to the people.

Question 5

What is the name of the event during the Cold War, in which the US and Soviet Union had missiles pointed at eachother?

Accepted Answer

Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 6

NATO was organized to:

Accepted Answer

Protect countries from the threat of communism

Question 7

A line seperating political and economic differences between democratic and communist nations.

Accepted Answer

Iron Curtain

Question 8

Who was the American Sentator that lied about Communism and got the American people afraid?

Accepted Answer

Joseph McCarthy

Question 9

What was meant when Winston Churchill described Europe as the "Iron Curtain"?

Accepted Answer

The separation of Eastern and Western Europe.

Question 10

Who was the first Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, especially known for the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Accepted Answer

Nikita Khrushchev

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