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• What does NATO mean?

  • Northern Alliance of Territories and Organizations

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization

  • New Agreement on the Terms of Occupation

  • North American Treaty Organization

• Which nation's deployment of nuclear-armed missiles brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the verge of nuclear war in October 1962?

  • Turkey

  • South Korea

  • Cuba

  • West Germany

• An early victory for the United States may be seen in the Soviet Union's failed siege of that city?

  • Warsaw

  • Vienna

  • Tokyo

  • Berlin

• When this Soviet leader passed away in 1953, it eased Cold War tensions for a while. Who is he?

  • Georgy Zhukov

  • Vladimir Lenin

  • Joseph Stalin

  • Nikita Khrushchev

• This Soviet leader made a number of reforms that sped up the fall of the Soviet Union and ended the Cold War. Who is he?

  • Boris Yeltsin

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • Vladimir Putin

  • Anatoly Sobchak

• Who came up with the phrase "Cold War"?

  • George Orwell

  • Harry S. Truman

  • Dean Acheson

  • Winston Churchill

• After World War II, this U.S.-sponsored program provided western Europe with much-needed economic assistance. What is it?

  • Dayton Accords

  • Wilmot Proviso

  • Dawes Plan

  • Marshall Plan

• In the Cold War, there were two superpowers: the United States and...

  • Germany

  • The Soviet Union

  • China

  • North Korea

• The two nuclear superpowers had these discussions in the 1970s to try to slow down their arms race with one another. What is it?

  • No-Nukes Now Meetings

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

  • Nuclear Arms Reduction Summits

  • Ballistic Missile Conferences

• When troops from this country invaded South Korea with help from the Soviet Union in 1950, the Cold War went hot.

  • Vietnam

  • Cambodia

  • Japan

  • North Korea

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