Statistics for Which Decade? Cold War Click Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
United States withdraws from Vietnam	1970’s	90%
North Korea invades South Korea	1950’s	81%
The Cuban Missile Crisis	1960’s	81%
The USSR collapses	1990’s	77%
The Bay of Pigs Invasion	1960’s	74%
Gorbachev comes to power and enacts perestroika and glasnost	1980’s	74%
The USSR withdraws from Afghanistan	1980’s	68%
The Baltic countries declare independence from the USSR	1990’s	68%
Communist revolutionaries take over mainland China	1940’s	65%
The Suez Crisis	1950’s	65%
The Iranian Hostage Crisis	1970’s	65%
The USSR begins its invasion of Afghanistan	1970’s	65%
Poland is the first to quit communism peacefully	1980’s	61%
Boris Yeltsin becomes the leader of Russia	1990’s	61%
The creation of NATO	1940’s	58%
The Berlin Wall is dismantled	1980’s	55%
Churchill claims an “iron curtain” had descended on Eastern Europe	1940’s	52%
The USSR launches Sputnik, starting the Space Race	1950’s	52%
The Soviet military crushes the Hungarian Revolution	1950’s	48%
China’s communist government is recognized by NATO and its allies	1970’s	48%
The construction of the Berlin Wall	1960’s	42%
The USA flouts the Berlin Blockade with the Berlin Airlift	1940’s	39%
The USSR tests Tsar Bomba, the largest nuke ever	1960’s	35%
The USA and USSR agree to limit nuclear weapons with SALT I & II	1970’s	29%
The USSR tests their first nuclear weapon	1940’s	26%