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Cold War

Quiz Where East Meets West. 

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Second World War: Eastern Front

  • Question of

    In what decade was the Berlin Airlift/Blockade?

    • 1940s
    • 1950s
    • 1960s
  • Question of

    Which Soviet Premier was in charge for the longest span of the Cold War, 1947-91?

    • Stalin
    • Brezhnev
    • Khrushchev
  • Question of

    A Cold War spy-ring was uncovered at which university?

    • Oxford
    • Cambridge
    • Exeter
  • Question of

    Gary Powers’ U2 spy-plane was shot down by Soviet air defences in 1960. Which country issued a formal apology for their part in the incident. (Powers had taken off from one of their airfields)?

    • Canada
    • Pakistan
    • Turkey
  • Question of

    Where did dissidents ‘spring’ into action in 1968?

    • Budapest
    • Prague
    • Warsaw
  • Question of

    That same year, saw the formal withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact of which erstwhile member?

    • Albania
    • Romania
    • Yugoslavia
  • Question of

    For sixteen years, Cubans fought South Africans where?

    • Angola
    • Botswana
    • PR Congo
  • Question of

    A democratically-elected Marxist government took power in which country in 1970?

    • Benin
    • Chile
    • Loas
  • Question of

    Who was the first serving US President to step foot inside the Kremlin?

    • Richard Nixon
    • Jimmy Carter
    • Ronald Reagan
  • Question of

    Who was in charge of East Germany the night the Berlin Wall fell?

    • Erich Honecker
    • Egon Krenz
    • Willi Stoph

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