(Cold War Espionage)
What female product was covertly turned into a gun?
Compact
Mascara
Nail Polish
Lipstick
Lipstick
What year did the Korean War start?
1948
1950
1956
1961
1950
What year did the Chinese dictator, Mao Zedong, take over China in his famous communist revolution?
1949
1956
1967
1972
1949
What year was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
1956
1962
1971
1984
1962
What was the Bay of Pigs?
A failed invasion of Venezuela by America
A failed invasion of Cuba by America
A failed invasion of Honduras by America
A name of a horrible dating website
Failed invasion of Cuba
What year did Fidel Castro take power in Cuba?
1946
1952
1959
1961
1959
Spies, Julius & Ethel Rosenburg, were sentenced and put to death by America for giving Russia what knowledge during the Cold War?
Knowledge how to build Atomic Bombs
Knowledge how to build Jet Engines
Knowledge how to build Spy Satellites
Atomic Bomb
What boundary separates North and South Korea today?
21st Parallel
32nd Parallel
38th Parallel
46th Parallel
38th Parallel
In 1989, thousands of Chinese protesters were killed in the Tiananmen Square Massacre? What were they protesting?
More political freedoms
More economic freedoms
Freedom to travel overseas and leave China
All of the Above
How did America know Russia was putting nukes in Cuba?
American spy planes took pictures of the nuclear missile sites
Searched it up on the internet
Undercover CIA spies in Cuba reported seeing nukes
Castro bragged about Soviet nukes and had military parades showing off Soviet nukes
American spy planes took pictures of the nuclear missile sites
Why did American attempt to invade Cuba?
Overthrow Fidel Castro
Remove Soviet nuclear weapons
Reopen mafia casinos
The CIA was bored and needed something to do
Overthrow Castro
What was one of the first actions Castro took when he took power as a communist leader?
Killed city mayors who were not loyal
Nationalized private companies/factories (esp. oil companies)
Imprisoned rich Cuban families
Attempted to join Soviet Union
Nationalized private companies/factories (esp. oil companies)
The CIA used suicide glasses in case of capture, which drug was hidden in ear pieces?
Cyanide
Meth
Hemlock
Snake Venom
Cyanide
How many Americans died during the Korean War? (roughly)
15,000
24,000
36,000
48,000
36,000
Roughly how many Chinese people died while communist leader, Mao Zedong, was dictator?
5-10 million
12-15 million
25-30 million
40-80 million
40-80 million
What action did America take when Russia put nuclear weapons in Cuba?
Naval Blockade on Cuba
Threaten nuclear strikes on Moscow
Oil embargo on Russia oil
Raised tariffs on Cuban goods
Naval Blockade
Who was the American president who ordered the failed invasion of Cuba leaving him embarrassed?
Harry S Truman
Dwight D Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
John F Kennedy
Kennedy
What career did Fidel Castro work in before he rose to power as dictator?
Police officer
Lawyer
Doctor
Teacher
Lawyer
Who of these individuals worked for the FBI but turned into a spy for Russia and got caught selling classified information to Russia?
Robert Hanssen
Bill Watson
Joe Murphy
Henry Hill
Robert Hanssen (Russia paid him more than 1.4 million dollars for secrets he began selling in the early 1980s until his arrest in 2001 – He died in prison in 2023 while serving 15 life sentences)
Who was the leader of North Korea during the Korean War?
Kim il Sung
Mao Zedong
Ho Chi Minh
Pol Pot
Kim il Sung
What year did China's one child policy come to an end?
1989
1997
2001
2016
2016
Who was the US president who ordered Russia to remove their nukes from Cuba?
Harry S Truman
Richard Nixon
John F Kennedy
Ronald Reagan
Kennedy
Why was the Bay of Pigs such a failed mess when we tried to invade Cuba?
We landed in marshy bogs where our guys got pinned down
The CIA used obsolete WW2 planes that missed their bombing targets before the invasion
American forces quickly became outnumbered when Castro quickly mobilized 20,000 soldiers to meet our guys
When the president ordered additional air support, the fighter pilots showed up an hour late as they were confused by the time zone difference (and were shot down anyhow)
All of the above are true (no way?)
All of the above
What year did Castro die?
1976
1984
1995
2016
2016
How many classified documents did FBI agent Robert Hanssen sell to Russia (When he betrayed the US and became a spy for Russia)?
150
280
1,450
6,000
Hanssen sold about 6,000 classified documents to the KGB that detailed U.S. strategies in the event of nuclear war, developments in military weapons technologies, and aspects of the U.S. counterintelligence program.
The Korean War is also commonly referred to as?
Pacific Cold War
The Forgotten War
Second Indo-China War
Korea’s War for Freedom
The Forgotten War
Korean War
Chinese Civil War
Desert Storm
World War 2
Korean War
What country did America have nuclear weapons in that made Russia angry, thus they starting putting missiles in Cuba?
West Germany
Norway
Japan
Turkey
Turkey
After the Bay of Pigs invasion, what did America give to Cuba in exchange for the prisoners?
One million dollars in cash
Reassurance we would not invade Cuba
Baby Food & Medicine
15,000 New Ford/Chevy Automobiles
Baby Food and Medicine
Roughly, how many assassination attempts did Fidel Castro survive?
20
100
300
600
600