Cold War Quiz

This was the metaphoric "wall" that divided Eastern Europe from Western Europe.

• Iron Curtain

• Great Wall of China

• 38th Parallel

• Steel Curtain

A wall built by the communist East German government in 1961 to seal off the East of the city from the West.

• Great Wall of China

• Berlin Wall

• Moscow Wall

• Munich Wall

What is the name give to the conflicts that happened indirectly between the US and the Soviets during the Cold War?

• Hidden War

• Proxy War

• Invisible War

• Secret War

What was the name of President Reagan's proposed weapons system to destroy Soviet missiles from space?

• Star Wars

• Star Trek

• Battlestar

• Arcnet

An alliance formed in 1949 by the United States and the nations of Western Europe to fight Soviet aggression.

• NAFTA

• BAFTA

• ASCAP

• NATO

Who was the leader of the UN forces that fought against South Korea?

• Douglas MacArthur

• Harry Truman

• Dwight Eisenhower

• George S. Patton

After World War II, the long period of intense rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union.

• Cold War

• Korean War

• Vietnam War

• Civil War

What ended the Space Race in 1975?

• US landing on the Moon

• Soviets launching Sputnik

• A joint US/Soviet mission that met in space

• The Soviets sending a monkey into space

The president who sent troops into Vietnam, in what turned out to be a very unpopular decision.

• Harry Truman

• John F. Kennedy

• Lyndon B. Johnson

• Richard Nixon

The government agency that directs the American Space program.

• FBI

• CIA

• NASA

• CSI: Miami