Quiz  /  Comprehension Quiz: Cold War

  • 1. 
    Who coined the term "Cold War"?

  • Harry S. Truman
  • George Orwell
  • Winston Churchill
  • Dean Acheson

  • 2. 
    The two superpowers involved in the Cold War were the United States and…

  • China
  • the Soviet Union
  • Germany
  • North Korea

  • 3. 
    After World War II this U.S.-sponsored program supplied much-needed economic aid to western Europe.

  • Wilmot Proviso
  • Dayton Accords
  • Dawes Plan
  • Marshall Plan

  • 4. 
    NATO stands for:

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization
  • North American Treaty Office
  • Northern Alliance of Territories and Organizations
  • New Accord on the Terms of Occupation

  • 5. 
    The unsuccessful Soviet blockade of this city marked an early victory for the U.S.

  • Warsaw
  • Berlin
  • Vienna
  • Tokyo

  • 6. 
    The Cold War turned hot in 1950 when Soviet-backed troops from this country invaded South Korea.

  • Japan
  • North Korea
  • Cambodia
  • Vietnam

  • 7. 
    The death of this Soviet leader in 1953 brought a temporary relaxation of Cold War tensions.

  • Georgy Zhukov
  • Nikita Khrushchev
  • Joseph Stalin
  • Vladimir Lenin

  • 8. 
    The stationing of nuclear-armed missiles in this country brought the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war in October 1962.

  • West Germany
  • Turkey
  • Cuba
  • South Korea

  • 9. 
    These discussions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union in the 1970s were intended to curtail the arms race between the two nuclear superpowers.

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
  • No-Nukes Now Meetings
  • Nuclear Arms Reduction Summits
  • Ballistic Missile Conferences

  • 10. 
    This Soviet leader introduced a series of reforms that hastened the collapse of the Soviet Union, effectively ending the Cold War.

  • Boris Yeltsin
  • Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Vladimir Putin
  • Anatoly Sobchak
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