Cold War History Quiz

Which event led to the closest the world has ever come to nuclear apocalypse during the 1960s?

• Six-Day War

• Bay of Pigs Invasion

• Vietnam War

• Cuban Missile Crisis

Who was the US President during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

• John F. Kennedy

• Jimmy Carter

Which US President initiated the Strategic Defense Initiative, also known as Star Wars?

• Richard Nixon

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford

• Ronald Reagan

Who was the Soviet leader known for implementing policies of glasnost and perestroika?

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Boris Yeltsin

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Which country was invaded by the Soviet Union in 1979, leading to the end of the second detente?

• Iran

• Iraq

• Syria

• Afghanistan

Who was the leader of the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall fell?

• Boris Yeltsin

• Nikita Khrushchev

• Leonid Brezhnev

• Mikhail Gorbachev

Which US President visited China in 1972 as part of the Ping-Pong Diplomacy?

• Richard Nixon

• Ronald Reagan

• Jimmy Carter

• Gerald Ford

Who was the President of Russia when USSR dissolve?

• Yeltsin

• Gorbachev

• Eisenhower

• Khrushchev

Which country was divided into North and South with communist and anti-communist regimes respectively?

• Vietnam

• China

• Germany

• Japan

What was the name of the US operation to develop a defensive anti-missile shield around the country?

• Operation Desert Storm

• Operation Enduring Freedom

• Strategic Defense Initiative

• Operation Rolling Thunder