Our last in the series of learning resources about the Cold War, this quiz tests your knowledge on the basic events and players of the cold war. Make sure to find all our other Cold War learning resources so that you'll have learnt all the details tested in this quiz.
Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Yalta, Ukraine to discuss what would happen after the war.
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True
False
Question 2
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What does Cominform stand for?
Answer
Communist International Society
Communist Informat
Communist Information Bureau
Common International Bureau
Question 3
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The US differed from the the USSR in terms of ideology; the US was [blank_start]capitalist[blank_end] and democratic, while the USSR was a dictatorship and [blank_start]communist[blank_end].
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capitalist
socialist
communist
epistocratic
Question 4
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What was the alliance between the USSR and the main communist states in Eastern Europe in 1955 called?
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Moscow Pact
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Krakow Pact
Warsaw Pact
Question 5
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The 'Domino effect' was the belief that if one country in an area fell to communism then the rest would fall too.
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True
False
Question 6
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During the Cuban Missiile Crisis, Khrushchev agreed a [blank_start]$100[blank_end] million package of economic aid, military equipment and technical advisers to Castro.
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$95
$100
$87
$125
Question 7
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Which US President launched Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965?
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Richard Nixon
Question 8
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During the Vietnamese War, what percentage of African-Americans were drafted to fight?
Answer
30%
19%
29%
24%
Question 9
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In 1962, the US and USSR agreed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons being produced.