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Cold War
Eastern Bloc vs Western Bloc
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| First submitted | February 7, 2021 |
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1. The Cold War began after what major conflict?
World War II
Balkan Wars
Russian Revolution
World War I
2. Who was the first to use the term "Cold War"?
Winston Churchill
Arthur Conan Doyle
George Orwell
Harry S. Truman
3. The Cold War was a conflict mainly between the United States and which other nation?
Soviet Union
Germany
France
Japan
4. What incident in 1962 almost started World War III?
Bay of Pigs invasion
Suez crisis
Cuban missile crisis
Korean war
5. The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?
Yugoslavia
Israel
Cuba
Egypt
6. Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion?
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
Jimmy Carter
7. Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
8. Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Lyndon Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
9. The Korean War was a war between North Korea and which other country?
China
USA
South Korea
Japan
10. What country entered the side of North Korea in Korean War and changed the course of the war?
Japan
China
Philippines
Vietnam
11. The Vietnam War was fought between North and South Vietnam. Who was the major supporter of the South?
Soviet Union
USA
North Korea
China
12. Vietnam was a colony of what country prior to World War II?
Japan
France
China
Great Britain
13. How long was the Vietnam War?
10 years
20 years
5 years
3 years
14. Who was the president of North Vietnam, during most of the Vietnam War?
Nguyen Huu Tho
Bao Dai
Tran Dai Quang
Ho Chi Mihn
15. Who were the two major backers of the north in the Vietnam War?
France and Britain
USA and Soviet Union
USA and France
Soviet Union and China
16. Who became US president, and continued the escalation of the Vietnam War, after Kennedy's assassination?
Franklin Roosevelt
Lyndon Johnson
Richard Nixon
Dwight Eisenhower
17. The North won the war with the fall of what city in South Vietnam?
Tri Tram
Vinh Loi
Can Tho
Saigon
18. What country controlled the zone where the capital city of Berlin was located during Cold War?
USA
Soviet Union
France
Great Britain
19. The Soviet Union subscribed to what political ideology during Cold War?
Capitalism
Anarchism
Localism
Communism
20. Who played chess in the Match of the Century in the middle of Cold War in 1972?
Karpov vs Kasparov
Kasparov vs Fisher
Spassky vs Karpov
Fisher vs Spassky
21. When was Berlin Wall constructed?
1981
1971
1951
1961
22. The Iron Curtain divided Europe into two separate areas from 1945 until 1991. Which country was not behind the curtain?
Czechoslovakia
Poland
Hungary
Greece
23. Who was the first chairman of Non-Aligned Movement established in 1961?
Jawaharlal Nehru
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Fidel Castro
Josip Broz Tito
24. Who was the military leader of Cuba who Fidel Castro overthrew in his revolution?
Salvador Allende
Simon Bolivar
Che Guevara
Fulgencio Batista
25. As a part of the Space Race during Cold War which country first put a manned spacecraft into orbit?
China
Soviet Union
USA
France
26. Who was the Soviet leader whose policies contributed to the dissolution of the USSR and the end of the Cold War?
Leonid Brezhnev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Vladimir Putin
Boris Yeltsin
27. Who was the first President of Russia after the break up of USSR?
Boris Yeltsin
Vladimir Putin
Yevgeny Primakov
Dmitry Medvedev
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Thisisreal
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Great quiz, love it.
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