Cold War quiz
The Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, spies and the space race: a quiz on the standoff between East and West, from 1947 to 1991.
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A few questions from this quiz, without the answers: you will find out by playing.
What code name did the Allies give the Helmstedt checkpoint on the autobahn to West Berlin?
- Checkpoint Zulu
- Checkpoint Kilo
- Checkpoint Alpha
- Checkpoint Bravo
In which South Korean city was a pro-democracy uprising crushed by the army in May 1980?
- Daegu
- Incheon
- Gwangju
- Busan
Which U.S. secretary of state practiced "shuttle diplomacy" after the 1973 war?
- John Foster Dulles
- Henry Kissinger
- Dean Rusk
- Cyrus Vance
Which American pianist won the first International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1958?
- Van Cliburn
- Arthur Rubinstein
- Leonard Bernstein
- Glenn Gould
Turkey stayed neutral during the Korean War.
- True
- False
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