Questions in this quiz: The Cold War

US-Soviet rivalry 1947–1991. Iron Curtain, NATO and the Warsaw Pact, the Cuban Missile Crisis, proxy wars in Korea and Vietnam, the space race, détente, Gorbachev, and the fall of the Berlin Wall.

1. Which country's attempt to leave the Warsaw Pact in 1956 was crushed by a Soviet military intervention? — Options: Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania
2. What was the name of the first artificial satellite, whose 1957 launch shocked the United States into accelerating its space program? — Options: Vostok, Sputnik, Luna, Mir
3. Which geographic line was used in 1945 to divide Korea into Soviet and American occupation zones? — Options: The Yalu River, The 38th parallel, The 17th parallel, The Amur River
4. Who was the first human to travel into outer space, in April 1961? — Options: Alan Shepard, Yuri Gagarin, John Glenn, Gherman Titov
5. The 1972 SALT I treaty, a landmark of détente, limited which category of weapons between the U.S. and USSR? — Options: Chemical weapons, Strategic nuclear arms, Conventional tanks in Europe, Anti-personnel landmines
6. Which Soviet leader introduced the reform policies known as 'glasnost' and 'perestroika' in the mid-1980s? — Options: Yuri Andropov, Konstantin Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev, Boris Yeltsin
7. In what year did the Berlin Wall fall, opening the border between East and West Berlin? — Options: 1987, 1989, 1990, 1991