Cold War 2.0?
(Russia invades Ukraine)
(Russia invades Ukraine)
When did Russia invade Ukraine?
a) Oct 2019
b) Dec 2020
c) June 2021
d) Feb 2022
d) Feb 2022 (Fighting goes back to Crimean Peninsula 2014)
What year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a) 1956
b) 1962
c) 1971
d) 1984
b) 1962
Who were the first humans to walk on the moon?
a) Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin
b) Sergei Krikalev/Vladimir Komarov
c) Buck Rogers/Buzz Lightyear
d) Alan Shepard/Neil Armstrong
a) Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin (1969) Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the Moon and walked on the surface, while Michael Collins stayed in the Apollo 11 vessel
What year did the Korean War start?
a) 1948
b) 1950
c) 1956
d) 1961
b) 1950
What year did Russia invade Afghanistan?
a) 1953
b) 1967
c) 1979
d) 1982
c) 1979
Chernobyl was a Soviet Union nuclear power plant that had a disastrous melt down in 1986. Which Soviet Union country was Chernobyl located in?
a) Russia
b) Ukraine
c) Estonia
d) Belarus
b) Ukraine
What has been one major global impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
a) Eastern European countries formally associated with the Soviet Union have been expressing support for Russia
b) A worldwide spike in food and energy prices
c) Former Soviet Union countries have directly tried to bring back the Soviet Union
d) American allies (NATO countries) have refused to help Ukraine resulting in the weakening of Western Powers
b) A worldwide spike in food and energy prices
How did America know Russia was putting nukes in Cuba?
a) American spy planes took pictures of the nuclear missile sites
b) Searched it up on the internet
c) Undercover CIA spies in Cuba reported seeing nukes
d) Castro bragged about Soviet nukes and had military parades showing off Soviet nukes
a) American spy planes took pictures of the nuclear missile sites
What famous words did Neil Armstrong say when he stepped on the moon for the first time?
a) That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
b) Woooooooo!
c) The Soviets were first in space, but America won the race to the moon
d) Today we see American resolve and ingenuity on display
a) That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
What boundary separates North and South Korea today?
a) 21st Parallel
b) 32nd Parallel
c) 38th Parallel
d) 46th Parallel
c) 38th Parallel
The USA provided everything except which of the following to the Afghan people during their war against the Soviet Union?
a) US soldiers to help fight
b) Advanced top secret US weapons
c) Covert military training
d) Funding
a) US soldiers to help fight
Why did the reactor explode in Chernobyl?
a) Due to a flawed design in the power-plant during a low-power test
b) Lightning strike in thunder storm
c) Sabotage by anti-Communist rebels
d) Soviet scientist fell asleep and reactor overheated
a) Due to a flawed design in the power-plant during a low-power test
What has the impact of this war been on Russian society?
a) Nothing really. Russian citizens have largely ignored the war in Ukraine
b) A sharp escalation in repression, censorship, and the curtailment of all forms of dissidence from the Russian government against Russian citizens
c) It has united Russian citizens, who unanimously praise president Putin
d) It has boosted Russia’s economy and the average Russian citizen has seen the economic benefits of the war
b) A sharp escalation in repression, censorship, and the curtailment of all forms of dissidence from the Russian government against Russian citizens
Who was the US president during the Cubin Missile Crisis who ordered Russia to remove their nuclear missile sites from Cuba?
a) Harry S Truman
b) Richard Nixon
c) John F Kennedy
d) Ronald Reagan
c) John F Kennedy
Apollo 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon in 1969. How long was the Apollo 11 spacecraft on the moon?
a) 14 Hours, 15 Minutes
b) 21 Hours, 36 Minutes
c) 1 Day, 2 Hours, 48 Minutes
d) 3 Days, 6 Hours, 2 Minutes
b) 21 Hours, 36 Minutes
Which country did not officially get involved in the Korean War?
a) United States
b) China
c) Russia
d) NATO Countries
c) Russia
How many Afghan people died as a result of the Soviet-Afghan war?
a) 500,000
b) 700,000
c) 1-2 Million
d) 4-6 Million
c) 1-2 Million Afghan people (15,000 Russian soldiers KIA)
How long did Chernobyl burn?
a) 12 Hours
b) 3 Days
c) 10 Days
d) 3 Weeks
c) 10 Days
How many Russian casualties/deaths so far to date?
a) C = 15,000 & D = 6,000
b) C = 100,000 & D = 42,000
c) C = 500,000 & D = 67,000
d) C = 1,200,000 & D = 325,000
d) C = 1,200,000 & D = 325,000
What was a major component of the secret negotiations that successfully resolved the crisis and Russia remove their nukes from Cuba?
a) The US had secretly agreed to remove its nuclear-armed Jupiter missiles from Turkey/Italy.
b) The US allowed the Soviet Union to leave it’s Il-28 bombers in Cuba permanently, so long as they removed nuclear warheads from Cuba
c) Kennedy publicly announced it would trade US oil to poorer Soviet Union ally countries to help them out once the nukes were removed from Cuba
d) The US paid the Soviet Union $14 Million to ship the missiles back to Russia.
a) The US had secretly agreed to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turkey/Italy.
Which country was the first country to put a human, plant and animal into space?
a) Soviet Union
b) Canada
c) America
d) China
a) Soviet Union
The Korean War is also commonly referred to as?
a) The Pacific Cold War
b) The Forgotten War
c) Second Indo-China War
d) The Several Pigs War
b) The Forgotten War
What was the outcome of the Soviet-Afghan War?
a) It resulted in a stalemate and finally Russia agreed to a peace treaty that benefited both sides
b) Although Russian forces controlled the cities; ultimately, they could not conquer Afghanistan and left in utter defeat and Afghanistan plunged into civil war
c) The Soviets successfully gained control of Afghanistan and eventually left after realizing that Afghanistan offered no value to the Soviet Union.
d) America, with the help of the Pope, convinced the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan and they peacefully left towards the end of the Cold War
b) Although Russian forces controlled the cities; ultimately, they could not conquer Afghanistan and left in utter defeat and Afghanistan plunged into civil war
Roughly, how many people died due to the melt down of Chernobyl?
a) 31-50
b) 100-150
c) 500-1,300
d) 2,200-2,600
a) 31-50 31 Officially (UN says 50) (Thousands of people were exposed to radiation)
How many Ukrainian children have been inducted (forcibly taken) into Russia by the Russian invasion?
a) Roughly 100
b) Roughly 500
c) Roughly 6,300
d) Roughly 19,500
d) Roughly 19,500 (officially documented) could be as high as 700,000
Did anyone die in a combat death from the Cuban Missile Crisis?
a) Nobody actually died
b) 1 person died when Cuba shot down an American U2 spy plane
c) Actually 143 people were killed in Cuba when we bombed one missile site
d) Millions of people died in the fires of WW3 started by this crisis
b) 1 person died when Cuba shot down an American U2 spy plane -
Oct 27 – Cuba shot down U2 spy plane flown by Rudolf Anderson (killed him)
JFK could have retaliated but choose diplomacy
What was first animal in space?
a) Monkey
b) Dog
c) Cockroach
d) Spider
b) Dog (Soviet dog named Laika aboard Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on November 1957)
How many Americans died during the Korean War? (roughly)
a) 15,000
b) 24,000
c) 36,000
d) 48,000
c) 36,000
Afghan fighters (the Mujahideen) later were renamed to what well-known terrorist group today?
a) al-Qaida
b) Taliban
c) ISIS
d) Hamas
a) al-Qaida
What was the primary lasting health effect people experienced from Chernobyl radiation?
a) Thyroid cancer
b) Vision loss
c) Cystic fibrosis
d) Parkinson's disease
a) Thyroid cancer - The Soviet Union tried to cover it up (but did try to get people iodine pills to treat some affected people)