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Question	Answer	% Correct
What incident in 1962 almost started World War III?	Cuban missile crisis	97%
The Korean War was a war between North Korea and which other country?	South Korea	97%
The Cold War was a conflict mainly between the United States and which other nation?	Soviet Union	97%
The Vietnam War was fought between North and South Vietnam. Who was the major supporter of the South?	USA	97%
The Cold War began after what major conflict?	World War II	97%
The Soviet Union subscribed to what political ideology during Cold War?	Communism	91%
What country entered the side of North Korea in Korean War and changed the course of the war?	China	88%
The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed US landing operation on which country in 1961?	Cuba	88%
As a part of the Space Race during Cold War which country first put a manned spacecraft into orbit?	Soviet Union	88%
Who was president of the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	John F. Kennedy	84%
Who was the Soviet leader whose policies contributed to the dissolution of the USSR and the end of the Cold War?	Mikhail Gorbachev	84%
What country controlled the zone where the capital city of Berlin was located during Cold War?	Soviet Union	84%
The Iron Curtain divided Europe into two separate areas from 1945 until 1991. Which country was not behind the curtain?	Greece	81%
Who was the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis?	Nikita Khrushchev	81%
Who were the two major backers of the north in the Vietnam War?	Soviet Union and China	81%
Who was the first President of Russia after the break up of USSR?	Boris Yeltsin	78%
Who was the president of North Vietnam, during most of the Vietnam War?	Ho Chi Mihn	78%
The North won the war with the fall of what city in South Vietnam?	Saigon	75%
When was Berlin Wall constructed?	1961	72%
Vietnam was a colony of what country prior to World War II?	France	69%
Which US President ordered the Bay of Pigs invasion?	John F. Kennedy	69%
Who became US president, and continued the escalation of the Vietnam War, after Kennedy's assassination?	Lyndon Johnson	66%
Who was the military leader of Cuba who Fidel Castro overthrew in his revolution?	Fulgencio Batista	50%
Who was the first chairman of Non-Aligned Movement established in 1961?	Josip Broz Tito	50%
How long was the Vietnam War?	20 years	41%
Who played chess in the Match of the Century in the middle of Cold War in 1972?	Fisher vs Spassky	28%
Who was the first to use the term "Cold War"?	George Orwell	22%