Cold War 1945-1991 (Section IV peace and conflict) quiz

A pledge of permanent US neutrality and non-intervention in all postwar European affairs

A formal mutual-defence alliance with the Soviet Union to police the defeated Axis powers

A detailed plan to disarm and partition Germany into four permanent occupation zones

A commitment to contain communism by supporting free peoples resisting subjugation

Provide direct military aid and weapons to anti-communist regimes across Latin America

Rebuild Western European economies and make them resistant to communism

Punish Germany economically by stripping its remaining industrial capacity for reparations

Establish a single European currency and central bank to unify the western trading bloc

Soviet ground forces overran West Berlin and absorbed it into the eastern occupation zone

A newly elected all-German coalition government took control of the divided city

The United Nations Security Council ordered an immediate four-power withdrawal from Berlin

The Western allies' airlift made the blockade ineffective and Stalin lifted it

Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Korean War armistice (1953)

Vietnam War (1965-1975)

Czechoslovakia 1968

A sharp intensification of the nuclear arms race and renewed weapons testing

SALT I, the Helsinki Accords, and the Nixon-Brezhnev summits relaxing tensions

Direct large-scale military conflict between US and Soviet forces in central Europe

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid reunification of the two German states

The wartime Grand Alliance cooperation

The high detente of the early 1970s

The 'Second Cold War' of the early 1980s

The post-Cold War cooperation of the 1990s

Nikita Khrushchev

Leonid Brezhnev

Boris Yeltsin

Mikhail Gorbachev

A spontaneous response to East German government miscommunication and rising popular pressure

A pre-planned demolition ordered by the USSR to consolidate its hold over the eastern bloc

A direct US military operation that breached the wall and then seized the entire eastern half of Berlin

The opening event of the Cold War that first divided the continent into rival armed camps

The United States for provoking the USSR through aggressive economic expansion

The Soviet Union for expansionist behaviour after 1945

Both superpowers equally for mutual misperception and structural insecurity

Decolonisation movements across Asia and Africa for destabilising the postwar order

A decisive US military victory that secured an independent South Vietnam

A negotiated consolidation that left a stable pro-Western South Vietnamese state

The fall of Saigon and reunification under the communist North

A direct Sino-American conflict drawing China into open war with the United States

The sole responsibility of Reagan's SDI bankrupting Soviet defence spending overnight

A direct NATO invasion of the Soviet Union that militarily toppled the entire Communist Party leadership

Mass emigration to the West stripping the republics of their entire skilled workforce

A multi-causal mix: economic stagnation, ethnic nationalisms, failed reform, and external pressure

The Cold War's origins lie not in any single event but in the structural and ideological tensions between the US and USSR that the Yalta and Potsdam settlements failed to resolve.

The Cold War was a really long and very complicated conflict that went on for many years and involved lots of different countries and many important leaders, and in this essay I am going to try my best to talk about some of the things that happened during it.

I will discuss the causes of the Cold War and some of its effects.

After the Second World War things definitely changed a lot.