The Cold War

What this quiz asks

• Which leader popularised the phrase 'Iron Curtain' in a speech at Fulton, Missouri, in March 1946?
• When the Soviets cut off road and rail access to West Berlin in 1948, how did the Western Allies keep the city supplied?
• In nuclear strategy, what did the acronym MAD stand for?
• At which Berlin Wall crossing, used by Allied personnel and foreigners, did US and Soviet tanks face each other in October 1961?
• The Korean War ended with a peace treaty signed in 1953.
• Select ALL of these countries that were founding members of NATO in 1949.
• Which Soviet leader denounced Stalin's crimes in the so-called Secret Speech of 1956?
• During the 1962 missile crisis, what word did President Kennedy use for the US naval blockade around Cuba?
• American pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 while flying which spy plane?
• Did the United States boycott the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow?
• Which country's 1956 uprising was crushed by Soviet tanks after its prime minister, Imre Nagy, declared neutrality?
• The Truman Doctrine of 1947 began with American aid to which two countries?
• Which Czechoslovak leader's reforms, known as the Prague Spring, were ended by a Warsaw Pact invasion in August 1968?
• The Apollo-Soyuz mission of July 1975 is remembered for which first?
• The Berlin Wall was opened on 9 November 1989 partly because of a muddled announcement at a press conference.
• In what year did the Soviet Union test its first atomic bomb, ending the American nuclear monopoly?
• Which Polish trade union, led by Lech Wałęsa, was born out of the Gdańsk shipyard strikes of 1980?
• During the failed hardliner coup in Moscow in August 1991, which Russian leader rallied resistance by climbing onto a tank?
• Select ALL of these countries that were split into two rival states during the Cold War.
• Order these Cold War events from earliest to latest.