Cold War and Decolonization Quiz

What term describes the post-1945 rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union?

Which two superpowers dominated the Cold War?

What year is commonly used as the starting point of the Cold War era?

Which U.S. policy aimed to contain the spread of communism?

What was the name of the U.S. program to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II?

Which military alliance was formed by Western powers in 1949?

Which alliance was created by the Soviet bloc in 1955?

Which city was blockaded by the Soviet Union in 1948 to 1949?

How did the Western Allies respond to the Berlin Blockade?

Which wall became a symbol of Cold War division in 1961?

Which crisis in 1962 brought the world close to nuclear war?

Which communist leader headed Cuba during the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Which war from 1950 to 1953 ended with Korea still divided?

Which war deeply involved the United States in Southeast Asia?

What does the term decolonization mean?

Which country gained independence from Britain in 1947?

Who became the first prime minister of independent India?

Which leader is strongly associated with nonviolent resistance in India's independence movement?

What new state was created alongside India in 1947?

Which African country won independence from France after a brutal war ending in 1962?

Which Ghanaian leader became a symbol of African independence in 1957?

Which Egyptian leader nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956?

The Bandung Conference of 1955 is associated with what movement?

What was the Non-Aligned Movement?

Who was a leading anti-apartheid figure in South Africa?

In which year did the Berlin Wall fall?

Which Soviet leader introduced glasnost and perestroika?

In which year did the Soviet Union dissolve?

Which broad trend reshaped Asia and Africa after World War II?

Which Cold War fear drove the superpowers' arms race?