Grade 11 · World history
This quiz helps revise “The Cold War” in World history for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Origins, Hot Crises, Arms and Space, Strategies & Deals, Endgame. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Which United States program began in 1948 to help rebuild Western European economies?
Which United States policy announced in 1947 called for aid to Greece and Turkey?
Which collective-defence alliance was…
In the gameWhat was the 1948–49…
In the gameWhich Soviet-led military bloc…
In the gameWhich 1950–1953 war began with an attack across the 38th parallel and ended with an armistice, not a peace treaty?
Which 13-day October 1962 standoff followed the discovery of Soviet nuclear missiles about 90 miles from the United States?
Which 1956 uprising centered…
In the gameWhat name is given…
In the gameWhich war began after…
In the game
What is the name of the pictured Soviet device launched on 4 October 1957 as the first object placed in Earth orbit?
Who became the first human to orbit Earth on 12 April 1961?
Which 1969 mission, whose…
In the gameWhich environment was not…
In the gameWhich talks ended their…
In the gameWhat U.S. strategy did George Kennan associate with long-term resistance to the expansion of Soviet influence?
What term described the easing of tensions between the United States and USSR during the 1970s?
What principle justified intervention…
In the gameWhich 1975 conference document…
In the gameWhat was Willy Brandt's…
In the gameWhich barrier in Germany's divided capital saw its border crossings open on 9 November 1989?
What was Gorbachev's policy of openness, wider public discussion and reduced censorship called?
What occurred on 3…
In the gameWhich 1987 treaty eliminated…
In the gameWhich accords did the…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.