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The Cold War Trivia

Prove you’re as cool as a U-2 flight and as savvy as Reagan’s wall-shredding quip—if you can dodge missiles and spies, you’re in!

EXAMPLE QUESTIONS

Which U.S. president delivered the “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech in West Berlin in 1963?

John F. Kennedy

Who declared "History will absolve me" during a 1953 trial, then led the 26th of July Movement to overthrow Batista?

Fidel Castro

Which Soviet leader famously called the Afghan war a 'bleeding wound' while pushing for troop withdrawal in the late 1980s?

Mikhail Gorbachev

Which Soviet leader reversed the “Khrushchev Thaw” and enforced stricter political and religious controls, epitomized by the 1968 crackdown in Czechoslovakia?

Leonid Brezhnev

Which nation’s January 1950 boycott over China’s UN seat let the Security Council pass Korea war resolutions without a veto?

Soviet Union