Modern World History: Cold War

This is a quiz on useful facts about the cold war which are good to know for exams.

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What did Stalin attempt to do to force the allies to give him the rest of Berlin after the Second World War
Cut off supply lines from Western Berlin to the Western zones
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What was the name of the General who wanted to use nuclear bombs in the Korean War?
McArthur
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Who carried out the Bay of Pigs invasion?
Cuban Exiles
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How did the U-2 spy plane incident happen at a particularly unfortunate (for the USA) time?
The USA and the USSR were due to have a summit
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How did President Kennedy initially respond to the placement of missiles on Cuba by the USSR?
He set up a "quarantine" of Cuba
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What event meant that the eyes of the world left Hungary, meaning that the western powers could abandon Hungary?
The Suez crisis
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Why, primarily, was the Berlin Wall built?
To keep East Germans from emigrating to West Berlin
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Why did the Czechoslovakians not fight back when the Soviet, Polish etc... troops invaded?
They had seen what had happened in Hungary
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Who was Yuri Gagarin?
The first man in space
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What was the name of the General who wanted to use nuclear bombs in the Korean War?

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McArthur

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Who carried out the Bay of Pigs invasion?

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How did the U-2 spy plane incident happen at a particularly unfortunate (for the USA) time?

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How did President Kennedy initially respond to the placement of missiles on Cuba by the USSR?

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