Cold War General
The two superpowers involved in the Cold War were the United States and…
Sovjet Union
What is the name of the thirty-fifth U.S. president, who set out to expand social welfare spending with his New Frontier program. He was elected in 1960.
John F. Kennedy
Which Soviet Communist Party leader (1985-91) sought to democratize the U.S.S.R.’s political system and decentralize its economy?
Mikhail Gorvbachev
The stationing of nuclear-armed missiles in this country brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in October 1962.
Cuba
The United States and the United Kingdom conducted an airlift to bring vital supplies to which city in 1948–49?
Berlin
Who led the communist resistance in Yugoslavia during WWII?
Tito
After World War II this U.S.-sponsored program supplied much-needed economic aid to western Europe.
Marshall Plan
Whose iron-handed rule of the Soviet Union (1928-53) included the creation of a totalitarian state, the imposition of brutal purges, and the fostering of a cult of personality?
Joseph Stalin
What was the military alliance among the Soviet Union and its Communist allies that aimed to balance the U.S.-led NATO?
Warsaw Treaty Organization, better known as the Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) programme, which succeeded in preparing and landing the first humans on the Moon in 1969?
Apollo Program
The Berlin Wall separated East and West Berlin from when to when?
1961-1989
Which country stood up against the Communist regime in 1968?
Czechoslovakia
NATO stands for:
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
Name the 3 leaders that met at the Jalta conference on February 11th 1945.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (USA), Winston Churchill (UK) und Josef Stalin (USSR)
What was the term for the economic policy introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev to the U.S.S.R. in 1985?
Perestroika
The United States detonated two atomic bombs over which two Japanese cities on August 6th and August 9th 1945, respectively?
Hiroshima and Nagasaki
The Third Man is a 1949 film based on a novel by Graham Greene. In which European city is it set?
Vienna
Which country did the USSR fight a costly war in during the 1980s?
Afghanistan
The unsuccessful Soviet blockade of this city marked an early victory for the U.S.
Berlin
Who was the leader of the Communists in China during and after World War II?
Mao Zedong
Who was Karl Marx’s associate and fellow political theoretician?
Friedrich Engels
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a military alliance among the United States, Canada, and ten west European states, was formed in what year?
1949
In the immediate aftermath of World War II, Austria was divided into four occupation zones and jointly occupied by the United Kingdom, the Soviet Union, the United States, and France. Which provinces did the UK occupy?
Carinthia and Styria were assigned to the British Zone
Who led the striking workers in Poland in 1980. (Solidarity)?
Lech Walesa
Who was the first politician to use the term "Iron Curtain"?
Winston Churchill
Who was the nationalist, Communist leader of the Viet Minh movement, which sought to liberate Vietnam from French colonial rule throughout the 1950s?
Ho Chi Minh
What does USSR stand for?
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
What is the name of the doctrine outlined by U.S. diplomat George Kennan that formed the basis of U.S. foreign policy during the Cold War?
Containment
Josip Broz (1892 – 1980), commonly known as Tito was the leader of which European country?
Yugoslavia
Which neighbouring country did Tito want influence over?
Albania
What defensive pact did Eastern European states form under Moscow in 1955?
Warsaw Pact
Who led the Prague Spring reforms in 1968?
Dubcek
What Soviet secret police organisation monitored Eastern Europe?
KGB
What was U-2 during the Cold War?
US spy plane
Who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall?
Khrushchev
What economic system in Hungary forced farmers to give up their land?
Collectivisation