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