WW2 and Origins
At which 1945 conference did the "Big Three" agree to divide Germany and Berlin into four zones of occupation?
Yalta
What was the name of the 1947 US policy that promised to support any nation resisting a communist takeover?
Truman Doctrine
In 1962, the world came to the brink of nuclear war when the USSR placed missiles on which Caribbean island?
Cuba
What was the name of the policy, meaning "relaxation," used to describe the period of improved relations in the 1970s?
Détente
What term describes the build-up of weapons by both sides to ensure either side had a more powerful weapon?
Arms Race
Who was the British Prime Minister who gave the famous 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri, claiming an "Iron Curtain" had descended?
Winston Churchill
In 1948, Stalin blocked all road, rail, and canal links to West Berlin. How did the Western Allies supply the city for 11 months?
The Berlin Airlift (Operation Vittles)
What was the name of the Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961?
Nikita Khrushchev
Which 1979 event effectively ended Détente and led to the US boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympics?
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
What was the direct phone/teletype link between the White House and Kremlin called?
Hotline
Which 1945 conference saw increased tension because Truman had successfully tested the atomic bomb and Stalin had failed to hold free elections in Poland?
Potsdam
What was the name of the Soviet organization set up in 1947 to coordinate the various Communist parties across Eastern Europe?
Cominform
In 1961, a group of CIA-backed Cuban exiles attempted to invade Cuba to overthrow Castro. What was this failed mission called?
Bay of Pigs
What was the name of the 1972 treaty that limited the number of Anti-Ballistic Missiles (ABMs) each superpower could have?
SALT 1
What does the acronym "M.A.D." stand for in the context of nuclear strategy?
Mutually Assured Destruction
What was the name of the 1946 secret report sent by the US diplomat in Moscow that claimed the USSR was "fanatically" anti-West?
Bonus: Name of the US Ambassador who wrote it
The Long Telegram
Bonus: George Kennan
In response to the Marshall Plan, the USSR set up its own economic organization for Eastern Europe in 1949. What was it called?
Comecon
Bonus: Name of the leader who created the policy
Socialism with a human face
Bonus: Alexander Dubcek
In 1983, Ronald Reagan announced a plan for what space-based laser defense system?
Strategic Defense Initiative
What was the policy which gave the right of the USSR to intervene in any Eastern Bloc country to protect Communism
Brezhnev Doctrine
Following the "Long Telegram," the Soviet Ambassador to the US sent a telegram of his own back to Moscow. What was his name?
Nikolai Novikov
What was the name of the new currency introduced in the Western zones of Germany in 1948, which triggered the Berlin Blockade?
The Deutschmark
Following the Hungarian Uprising in 1956, which reformist leader was executed for trying to take Hungary out of the Warsaw Pact?
Bonus: Who was his replacement?
Imre Nagy
Bonus: Matyas Rakosi
What were the two key policies of Mikhail Gorbachev: one meaning "Openness" and the other "Restructuring"?
Glasnost and Perestroika
What was the "Veto," and which specific body within the United Nations could use it to block resolutions?
The power of the Permanent Five (Security Council) to reject any resolution