Cold War History Quiz

What was the period of rivalry between the USSR and the USA known as?

• The Great War

• The Cold War

• The World War

• The Nuclear War

Who famously said in 1946 that an 'Iron Curtain' had descended across Europe?

• Joseph Stalin

• Franklin D. Roosevelt

• Harry S. Truman

• Winston Churchill

What was the U.S. policy called that involved stopping the spread of communism by standing up to the Soviets wherever they seemed to want to expand?

• Intervention

• Infiltration

• Expansion

• Containment

What was the strategy agreed upon by the U.S. and USSR, which stood for 'mutually assured destruction'?

• WAR - Worldwide Annihilation Response

• DOOM - Destruction of Opposing Militaries

• MAD - Mutually Assured Destruction

• PEACE - Plan for Eliminating All Conflicts Eternally

Which event saw the Soviets successfully building a wall around West Berlin in 1961?

• The Suez Crisis

• The Cuban Missile Crisis

• The Berlin Wall Crisis

• The Vietnam War

What did the U.S. spend $13 billion on to re-build western Europe after World War II?

• The Reconstruction Plan

• The Recovery Project

• The Marshall Plan

• The Development Initiative

Which Soviet leader was most responsible for the end of the Cold War?

• Vladimir Putin

• Mikhail Baryshnikov

• Joseph Stalin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

What did Gorbachev's 'Glasnost' lead to?

• More censorship

• More state-run businesses

• More information from the west

• More restricted civil society groups

Which country's dictator Ceaușescu was tried and put before a firing squad at the end of 1989?

• Poland

• Romania

• Hungary

• Yugoslavia

What was the term used for the U.S., Western Europe, and any place that embraced capitalism and a more or less democratic form of government?

• First World

• Second World

• Third World

• Fourth World