Nuclear Arms Race
What is the name of the first atomic bomb test by the United States?
A) Manhattan
B) Bravo
C) Trinity
D) Little Boy
Trinity
What economic system emphasizes private ownership and profit?
A) Communism
B) Capitalism
C) Socialism
D) Feudalism
Capitalism
What was the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
A) Apollo
B) Vostok
C) Sputnik
D) Luna
Sputnik
Who was the U.S. president during most of the 1980s?
A) Richard Nixon
B) Jimmy Carter
C) Ronald Reagan
D) George H. W. Bush
Ronald Reagan
What symbolic structure was built in 1961 to separate East and West Berlin?
A) The Wall of Europe
B) The Iron Curtain
C) The Berlin Wall
D) The Red Barrier
The Berlin Wall
Which country was the first to develop and test a hydrogen bomb after the U.S.?
A) United Kingdom
B) France
C) China
D) The Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
What economic system is based on government ownership and planned economy?
A) Socialism
B) Feudalism
C) Communism
D) Capitalism
Communism
Which country launched Sputnik?
A) United States
B) China
C) Germany
D) Soviet Union
The Soviet Union
Who was the Soviet leader during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
A) Joseph Stalin
B) Leonid Brezhnev
C) Nikita Khrushchev
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
Nikita Khrushchev
What war (1950–1953) involved both the U.S. and China on opposing sides?
A) The Vietnam War
B) The Korean War
C) Gulf War
D) Soviet-Afghan War
The Korean War
What was the term for the strategy where both sides could destroy each other with nuclear weapons?
A) First Strike
B) Nuclear Deterrence
C) Mutually Assured Destruction
D) Tactical Response
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What was the U.S. program that gave aid to rebuild European economies after WWII?
A) The Truman Doctrine
B) The Berlin Plan
C) The Marshall Plan
D) NATO
The Marshall Plan
Who was the first human to travel into space?
A) Neil Armstrong
B) Buzz Aldrin
C) John Glenn
D) Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Gagarin
Who introduced reforms like glasnost and perestroika in the USSR?
A) Nikita Khrushchev
B) Boris Yeltsin
C) Vladimir Putin
D) Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
What Cold War event involved placing nuclear missiles in Cuba?
A) Bay of Pigs Invasion
B) Cuban Missile Crisis
C) Cuban Revolution
D) Operation Mongoose
Cuban Missile Crisis
In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
A) 1960
B) 1962
C) 1965
D) 1970
1962
What economic alliance did the Soviet Union create to counter the Marshall Plan?
A) NATO
B) COMECON
C) Warsaw Pact
D) UN Council
COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
What U.S. mission first landed humans on the Moon?
A) Gemini 7
B) Apollo 11
C) Apollo 13
D) Mercury 6
Apollo 11
Who was U.S. president when the Cold War ended?
A) Bill Clinton
B) Ronald Reagan
C) George H. W. Bush
D) Jimmy Carter
George H. W. Bush
What alliance was created by the U.S. and Western nations in 1949?
A) United Nations
B) Warsaw Pact
C) NATO
D) SEATO
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
What treaty signed in 1968 aimed to stop the spread of nuclear weapons?
A) SALT I
B) INF Treaty
C) START Treaty
D) Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT)
What event in 1948 showed the U.S. commitment to supporting capitalism in West Berlin?
A) The Berlin Blockade
B) Berlin Wall Construction
C) The Iron Curtain Speech
D) The Berlin Airlift
The Berlin Airlift
What agency was formed by the U.S. in response to the Soviet space program?
A) CIA
B) DARPA
C) NASA
D) FBI
NASA
Who was the British Prime Minister known for her strong anti-Communist stance?
A) Elizabeth II
B) Theresa May
C) Margaret Thatcher
D) Angela Merkel
Margaret Thatcher
What was the name of the Soviet-Afghan War that lasted from 1979 to 1989?
A) Operation Desert Storm
B) The Red War
C) The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
D) The Afghan Resistance
The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan