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The Cold War Quiz
Ten questions on the long standoff between the United States and the Soviet Union, from Yalta and the Berlin Airlift to Cuba and the night the Wall opened.
- 10 questions
- About 3 minutes
- Medium
- Includes 2 photos
About this quiz
The two superpowers never fought each other directly, but their rivalry shaped almost every country on Earth for more than forty years. The quiz follows its turning points: the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Blockade, Sputnik, the crushing of Hungary, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Nixon's trip to China, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Several questions test stories that most people think they already know, such as what Roosevelt gave away at Yalta and how Kennedy really ended the missile crisis. Expect to learn something even from the answers you get right.
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Encyclopedia
Yalta Conference
The Yalta Conference was a February 1945 meeting between Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin that divided postwar Europe into rival blocs.
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Encyclopedia
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a thirteen-day standoff in October 1962 between the United States and the Soviet Union over nuclear missiles in Cuba.
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Blog
Why did the Soviet Union collapse?
The USSR had 30,000 nuclear weapons and the world's second-largest army. Within three months it dissolved without a war. Here is how a superpower talked itself out of existence.
