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When did the Berlin Blockade begin in Germany?
1948
When was NATO established in Washington D.C.?
1949
When did war break out on the Korean Peninsula?
1950
When was the Warsaw Pact signed in Eastern
Europe?
1955
When did the Cuban Missile Crisis unfold in the
Caribbean?
1962
When did large-scale US combat operations begin
in Vietnam?
1965
When did the Prague Spring take place in
Czechoslovakia?
1968
When did the Berlin Wall fall in Germany?
1989
When did the Soviet Union dissolve?
1991
When did the USSR invade Afghanistan?
1979
Who led the USSR during the 1962 nuclear
confrontation?
Nikita Khrushchev
Which American president launched an airlift to
supply a city under Soviet pressure?
Harry Truman
Who ruled communist China during the Korean
conflict?
Mao Zedong
Which East German leader backed the building of
a physical barrier in 1961?
Walter Ulbricht
Which American leader adopted a tough anti-
Soviet stance in the 1980s?
Ronald Reagan
Who introduced sweeping reforms in the USSR
during the 1980s?
Mikhail Gorbachev
Who governed the United Kingdom during early
1980s Cold War tensions?
Margaret Thatcher
Which American leader was in office when US
forces withdrew from Vietnam?
Gerald Ford
Who led the Soviet Union during the 1956 uprising
in Hungary?
Nikita Khrushchev
Which post-war German leader helped rebuild
West Germany?
Konrad Adenauer
Which European capital was the focus of a
blockade and airlift in 1948–49?
Berlin
Where was the DMZ established following a
ceasefire between two Cold War rivals?
Korea (38th Parallel)
Where did a revolt against Soviet influence erupt in
1956?
Hungary
Where did a liberal reform movement take place in
1968 before being crushed?
Czechoslovakia
Which city was physically divided for over two
decades by a concrete wall?
Berlin
Where did the United States evacuate its embassy
in 1975?
Saigon
Which island nation hosted Soviet missiles in
1962?
Cuba
Where did the Soviet Union become involved in a
lengthy war beginning in 1979?
Afghanistan
Where did the Soviet Union become involved in a
lengthy war beginning in 1979?
Helsinki
Where did a worker-led movement challenge
communist rule in the 1980s?
Poland
What term refers to the USSR’s gradual takeover
strategy in Eastern Europe?
Salami tactics
What was the American policy aimed at halting the
expansion of communism?
Containment
What Cold War theory described peace through
nuclear stalemate?
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
What was the US-led financial initiative to aid
European recovery post-WWII?
Marshall Plan
What alliance was the Eastern response to NATO?
Warsaw Pact
What US foreign policy supported nations resisting
communist pressure?
Truman Doctrine
What phrase symbolised the division of Europe
during the Cold War?
Iron Curtain
Which Soviet policy allowed greater openness in
media and politics?
Glasnost
Which Soviet policy allowed greater openness in
media and politics?
Brezhnev Doctrine
What kind of indirect conflict occurred in places
like Korea and Vietnam?
Proxy war
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