History General Knowledge Questions – Cold War Quiz

1. What does the term ‘Cold War’ describe?
Answer: The intense rivalry that developed after World War II between groups of Communist and non-Communist nations.

2. When did Cold War developed?
Answer: After the Second World War.

3. Between which nations the Cold War developed?
Answer: Communist and non-Communist nations.

4. Which side is often referred to as the ‘Eastern bloc’ in Cold War?
Answer: USSR and its Communist Allies.

5. Which side is often referred to as the ‘Western bloc’ in Cold War?
Answer: United States and its democratic allies.

6. Why did the struggle between groups of Communists and non-Communists nations was called the ‘Cold War?
Answer: Because it did not actually lead to fighting.

7. What are the characteristics of Cold War?
Answer: Mutual distrust, suspicion and misunderstanding by both the United States and the Soviet Union, and their allies.

8. Which are the conditions that increased the likelihood of a third World War?
Answer: Mutual distrust, suspicion and misunderstanding.

9. Who accused the Soviet Union of seeking to expand Communism throughout the world?
Answer: United States.

10. Who charged the United States with practicing imperialism and with attempting to stop revolutionary activity in other countries?
Answer: Soviet Union.

11. What was the demand of United Nations?
Answer: United States wanted a world of independent nations based on democratic principles.

12. Who attempted to tightly control the areas it considered vital to its national interest, including much of Eastern Europe?
Answer: Soviet Union.

13. When did the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union had been strained?
Answer: 1917.

14. When did, a revolution in Russia establish a Communist dictatorship there?
Answer: 1917.

15. What was the economic system of the United States in 1920’s and 1930’s?
Answer: Capitalism.

World History Questions

16. Who didn’t grant diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union until 1933?
Answer: United States.

17. When did Germany attack the Soviet Union?
Answer: 1941.

18. With whom, Soviet Union joined to fight against Germany in 1941?
Answer: Western Allies.

19. Why it seemed possible that a lasting for friendship might develop between the United States and the Soviet Union based on their war time co-operation?
Answer: The joining of Soviet Union and Western Allies in 1941.

20. Major differences continued to exist between the Soviet Union and the Western Allies. Particularly with regard to:
Answer: Eastern Europe.

21. What was the policy adopted by the United States towards the Soviet Union after the war ended?
Answer: ‘Get tough’.

22. Who led the Western bloc?
Answer: The United States.

23. Name the countries who included the Western bloc?
Answer: Britain, Canada, France, West Germany, Japan and Philippines.

24. Who led the Eastern bloc?
Answer: Soviet Union.

25. Name the countries who included the Eastern bloc?
Answer: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania.

26. When, did China join the Eastern bloc?
Answer: 1949.

27. Which were the countries belonged to the non-aligned or neutral nations?
Answer: India, Indonesia, Cambodia and most of the African States.

28. When did the Cold War become increasingly tense?
Answer: During the late 1940’s and 1950’s.

29. What was the demand of Each Side (Western bloc and Eastern bloc)?
Answer: Wanting to rule the World.

30. What was the belief of Each Side (Eastern and Western bloc)?
Answer: Its political and economic systems were better than the others.

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