Cold War Quiz

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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.
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Questão 1

Questão
Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Yalta, Ukraine to discuss what would happen after the war.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
What does Cominform stand for?
Responda
  • Communist International Society
  • Communist Informat
  • Communist Information Bureau
  • Common International Bureau

Questão 3

Questão
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].
Responda
  • capitalist
  • socialist
  • communist
  • epistocratic

Questão 4

Questão
What was the alliance between the USSR and the main communist states in Eastern Europe in 1955 called?
Responda
  • Moscow Pact
  • Kellogg-Briand Pact
  • Krakow Pact
  • Warsaw Pact

Questão 5

Questão
The 'Domino effect' was the belief that if one country in an area fell to communism then the rest would fall too.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

Questão
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.
Responda
  • $95
  • $100
  • $87
  • $125

Questão 7

Questão
Which US President launched Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965?
Responda
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • Richard Nixon

Questão 8

Questão
During the Vietnamese War, what percentage of African-Americans were drafted to fight?
Responda
  • 30%
  • 19%
  • 29%
  • 24%

Questão 9

Questão
In 1962, the US and USSR agreed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons being produced.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
Name the former Soviet Leader.
Responda
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Leonid Brezhnev
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Nikita Khrushchev

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