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RF Cold War Quiz

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one of these proxy wars were not in the Cold War?

a)

Congo Crisis

b)

Korean War

c)

Greek Civil War

d)

Mozambican Civil War

2.

Which screenwriter was apart of the Hollywood Blacklist?

a)

Billy Wilder

b)

Ernest Lehman

c)

Adrian Scott

d)

Desi Arnaz

3.

Which battle was one of the first of the Second Phase Offensive in the Korean War marking the turning point against the UN?

a)

Battle of Onjong

b)

Battle of the Chosin Resevoir

c)

Battle of Yongju

d)

Third Battle of Seoul

4.

What does NATO stand for?

a)

National American Tax Organization

b)

Narrow Attic Through Oranges

c)

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

d)

Northern Anti-Communist Treaty Organization

5.

What imaginary boundary existed between the Warsaw Pact and NATO?

a)

Iron Curtain

b)

Line of Communism

c)

Red Wall

6.

After WW2, how much zones were Berlin divided into?

a)

3

b)

4

c)

5

d)

2

7.

When was the Berlin Wall built?

a)

June 16, 1947

b)

August 13, 1961

c)

January 4, 1959

d)

September 8, 1963

8.

In turn for the Soviets removing their nukes from Cuba, what countries did the USA remove their nukes from.

a)

Norway and Italy

b)

West Germany and Turkey

c)

West Germany and Greece

d)

Italy and Turkey

9.

On which spacecraft did Yuri Gagarin become the first man in space?

a)

Korabl-Sputnik 2

b)

Korabl-Sputnik 1

c)

Vostok 1

d)

Vostok 2

10.

How much people were killed trying to cross the Berlin Wall?

a)

351

b)

187

c)

239

d)

262

11.

Which North Korean general/commander died during the Korean War?

a)

Choe Yong-gon

b)

Nam Il

c)

Kim Chaek

d)

Hwang Pyong-so

12.

Where did Winston Churchill say his Iron Curtain speech?

a)

Fulton, Missouri

b)

West Berlin, West Germany

c)

London, England

d)

Augusta, Maine

13.

Who coined the term "Cold War"?

a)

Winston Churchill

b)

Mervyn Peake

c)

Harry Truman

d)

George Orwell

14.

Who was the communist Cambodian leader during the Cambodian Genocide?

a)

Ta Mok

b)

Pen Sovan

c)

Pol Pot

d)

Hun Sen

15.

Which treaty resulted in the dissolution of the USSR?

a)

Moscow Accords

b)

Belovezha Accords

c)

Treaty of Tashkent

d)

Treaty of Kiev

16.

What was the closest the Cold War got to a full-scale nuclear war?

a)

Cuban Missile Crisis

b)

Korean War

c)

Bay of Pigs

d)

Chinese Civil War

17.

When was the Communist Manifesto originally published?

a)

December 25, 1847

b)

February 21, 1848

c)

June 6, 1848

d)

March 11, 1848

18.

Which one of these people were one of the fathers of the atomic bomb?

a)

J. Oppenheimer

b)

Wernher von Braun

c)

Hans von Ohain

d)

Walter Dornberger