Cold War QuizOnline version This is a test about the Cold War by Javier Ramón Núñez 1 Who was the US President during the Yalta Conference? a Harry Truman b John F. Kennedy c Franklin D. Roosevelt d Lyndon B. Johnson 2 Which term was coined by Chuchill to describe the split of Europe into two blocs? a Iron Wall b Iron Curtain c Iron Border d Iron Frontier 3 What was the Allied response to the Soviet Blockade of Berlin? a the Berlin Airlift b a military attack c a conference d a negotiation 4 The Truman Doctrine was based in the idea of... a Coexistence b Retaliation c Containment d Pacifism 5 Who was the North Korean dictator during the Korean War? a Mao Zedong b Kim Jong Il c Kim Jong Un d Kim Il Sung 6 What was the name of the military alliance of the Western Bloc countries? a Warsaw Pact b NATO c EEC d COMECON 7 Who took the power in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death? a Leonid Brezhnev b Nikita Khruschev c Yuri Andropov d Mikhail Gorbachev 8 Which Eastern Bloc country was invaded by the Soviet Army in 1956 after a popular uprising and a revolutionary movement? a Poland b Czechoslovakia c Romania d Hungary 9 Which conflict happened in the Middle East in 1956? a Suez Crisis b Lebanon War c Six-Day War d Yom Kippur War 10 Who took the power in Cuba in 1959? a Fulgencio Batista b Ernesto "Che" Guevara c Fidel Castro d Daniel Ortega 11 Which failed attempt of invasion of Cuba took place in 1961? a Bay of Pigs b Guantánamo Bay c Santiago Bay d Malecón Bay 12 How long the Cuban Missile Crisis lasted? a 1 year b 2 months c 3 weeks d 13 days 13 When was the Berlin Wall constructed? a April, 1961 b August, 1961 c August, 1962 d May, 1964 14 Which president of the US said in a famous speech "I'm a Berliner"? a Dwight Eisenhower b John F. Kennedy c Lyndon B. Johnson d Richard Nixon 15 Which incident caused the American intervention in Vietnam? a Annan Incident b Taiwan Incident c Tonkin Gulf Incident d Mekong Incident 16 How was called the 1968 process of reforms in Czechoslovakia? a Velvet Revolution b Czech Pride c Prague Spring d Czech Dawn 17 Which country was invaded by Soviet troops in 1979? a Kazakhstan b Iran c Pakistan d Afghanistan 18 What was the name of the program of economic and political reform in the Soviet Union begun by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986? a Nomenklatura b Glasnost c Perestroika d Uskoreniye 19 What president of the US challenged Gorbachev to "tear down this wall" in Berlin? a Gerald Ford b Jimmy Carter c Ronald Reagan d George Bush 20 When did the Berlin Wall fall down? a July, 1987 b November, 1989 c May, 1989 d October, 1990
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