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Cold War

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