80 The Cold War Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
Which US president signed the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the 1963 US-Soviet treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests?
Answer
Limited Test Ban Treaty
Who was the first Supreme Allied Commander of NATO?
Answer
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Which US president was in office during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the failed 1961 US-backed invasion of Cuba?
Answer
Bay of Pigs
In what year did the Vietnam War end?
Answer
1975
In what year did the Korean War begin?
Answer
1950
What was the name of the Soviet military alliance formed in 1955?
Answer
Warsaw Pact
What was the name of the first US satellite to reach orbit?
Answer
Explorer 1
Who was the Soviet leader who ordered the construction of the Berlin Wall?
Answer
Nikita Khrushchev
What was the name of the 1975 joint US-Soviet space mission?
Answer
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
What was the name of the US program to arm Afghan mujahideen?
Answer
Operation Cyclone
What was the name of the US doctrine of aid to countries threatened by communism?
Answer
Truman Doctrine
Which US president signed the INF Treaty in 1987?
Answer
Ronald Reagan
Who was the first human to travel into space?
Answer
Yuri Gagarin
In what year did the Cuban Missile Crisis occur?
Answer
1962
What was the name of the US program that rebuilt Western Europe?
Answer
Marshall Plan
Which US president gave the 'Ich bin ein Berliner' speech?
Answer
John F. Kennedy
What was the name of the US policy to contain communism?
Answer
Containment
Who was the Soviet leader who introduced glasnost?
Answer
Mikhail Gorbachev
What was the name of the wall that divided Berlin?
Answer
Berlin Wall
What was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth?
Answer
Sputnik 1
Which US president ordered the Berlin Airlift?
Answer
Harry S. Truman