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Cold War quiz!

Just how well do you know your Cold War stuff? Think you know your Khrushchevs from your Gorbachevs? Your perestroika from your stolichnaya? Take our Cold War quiz and find out!

QUESTION YOUR RESPONSE
1. Under which form of government are all the means of production owned by the state? (a) Capitalism
(b) Fascism
(c) Communism
(d) Frisbeetarianism
2. Which of the following weapons was not widely used in The Cold War? (a) Propaganda
(b) Espionage
(c) Mime
(d) Threats
3. In which year did Joseph Stalin die? (a) 1943
(b) 1953
(c) 1954
(d) 1956
4. Which of the following was a distinguishing feature of Mikhail Gorbachev, leader of the USSR from 1985? (a) He loved vodka
(b) He had a red birthmark on his forehead
(c) He played a mean saxophone
(d) He said 'Ich bin ein Berliner'
5. What major Cold War event occurred in 1962? (a) The Bay of Pigs incident
(b) The Turkish Missile Crisis
(c) The Cuban Missile Crisis
(d) Soviets invade Afghanistan
6. Which leader of the USSR announced the end of The Cold War? (a) Mikhail Gorbachev
(b) Boris Yelstin
(c) Vladimir Putin
(d) Nikita Khrushchev
7. What does the acronym NATO stand for? (a) North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
(b) North American Trading Office
(c) North Atlantic Trading Organisation
(d) North American Treaty Organisation

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