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Cold War Quiz

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  1. 1Josef Stalin, Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt met in Yalta, Ukraine to discuss what would happen after the war.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  2. 2What does Cominform stand for?
    1. ACommunist International Society
    2. BCommunist Informat
    3. CCommunist Information Bureau
    4. DCommon International Bureau
  3. 3The 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].
    1. Acapitalist
    2. Bsocialist
    3. Ccommunist
    4. Depistocratic
  4. 4What was the alliance between the USSR and the main communist states in Eastern Europe in 1955 called?
    1. AMoscow Pact
    2. BKellogg-Briand Pact
    3. CKrakow Pact
    4. DWarsaw Pact
  5. 5The 'Domino effect' was the belief that if one country in an area fell to communism then the rest would fall too.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  6. 6During the Cuban Missiile Crisis, Khrushchev agreed a [blank_start]$100[blank_end] million package of economic aid, military equipment and technical advisers to Castro.
    1. A$95
    2. B$100
    3. C$87
    4. D$125
  7. 7Which US President launched Operation Rolling Thunder in 1965?
    1. ADwight D. Eisenhower
    2. BJohn F. Kennedy
    3. CLyndon B. Johnson
    4. DRichard Nixon
  8. 8During the Vietnamese War, what percentage of African-Americans were drafted to fight?
    1. A30%
    2. B19%
    3. C29%
    4. D24%
  9. 9In 1962, the US and USSR agreed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) to reduce the amount of nuclear weapons being produced.
    1. ATrue
    2. BFalse
  10. 10Name the former Soviet Leader. Image for question 10
    1. AJimmy Carter
    2. BLeonid Brezhnev
    3. CMikhail Gorbachev
    4. DBoris Yeltsin
    5. ENikita Khrushchev

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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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