Cold War Trivia Quiz

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Answer 17 trivia questions on the Cold War battle of East vs. West.

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True or False: Germans forced to surrender in World War 2 sought out Americans & British units rather than be taken by the Soviet army, well known for its brutal atrocities.

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What was the name of the alliance Stalin formed between Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania, East Germany, and USSR?

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What U.S. president established the policy of communist containment, including the sending of 300,000 troops in the first proxy war?

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What Air Force Chief of Staff pushed for an invasion of Cuba during the Missile Crisis of 1962, which Russian documents now show likely would have led to retaliatory launch of its nuclear missiles?

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What U.S. president gave a solidarity speech in West Berlin with a rebuke of the Soviet Union and the quote, "Ich bin ein Berliner (I am a Berliner)?"

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What was the name of political warfare initiated by the Soviet Union to spread false propaganda, infiltrate "peace" movements, establish front organizations, and plant communist sympathizers in Western institutions of influence (Hollywood, media, universities, etc.)?

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What two proxy wars fought by the United States against communist insurgencies cost nearly 100,000 American soldiers their lives? [Choose 2 answers]

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What geopolitical concept was used to justify military intervention in Vietnam, theorizing that if one nation fell to communism, neighborning ones would also fall?

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What two rival communist countries did Richard Nixon pit against each other with summit visits in 1972? [Choose 2 answers]

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What country suffered over 1.5 million civilian deaths at the hands of the Pol Pot-led Khmer Rouge, inspired and initally aided by communists in Vietnam?

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What Caribbean county was the site of a civil war from 1979-1992 between the government (backed by the U.S.) and the Farabundo Marti Liberation Front (backed by Cuba and the Soviet Union), costing the lives of 75,000 people?

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What country did the Soviet Union invade in 1979, prompting an American boycott of the Olympics and the arming of a Mujahideen counterinsurgency?

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In what country did Reagan send weapons and aid to the Contras, an anti-Communist group opposing the Soviet-sponsored Sandinistas?

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What Caribbean island nation was taken over by Communist revolutionaries in 1983, threatening several hundred American medical students, after which Reagan ordered an invasion and takeover of the island?

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What was the name of Reagan's missile defense system, which the press derided as "Star Wars," but which Russian documents show scared the Soviets to the negotiating table?

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What two leaders signed the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which eliminated 2700 nuclear missiles? [Choose 2 answers]

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Who was the U.S. president when the Berlin Wall fell, followed by the reunification of East and West Germany?

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2 thoughts on “Cold War Trivia Quiz”

  1. Good quiz (that I still sucked at for some reason) but a couple comments: assuming the questions are always in the same order, #5 has a misspelling and for bonus points you should use German quotes, so this would be more appropriate: «Ich bin ein Berliner», and in #11 you have “Caribbean county” where I’m pretty sure it should be “Caribbean _country_.”

    Yes, minor nitpicks for sure… but if I gotta suck at trivia I should be good at something… 🙂

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