At the Yalta Conference in 1945, Allied leaders made agreements about the postwar world. Which issue soon became a major source of U.S.-Soviet tension?

A 1946 speech in Fulton, Missouri described Europe as divided by a barrier between Soviet-dominated and Western areas. Which phrase did that speech popularize?

George Kennan argued that Soviet power should be met with steady resistance wherever it tried to expand. Which U.S. policy grew from that argument?

In 1947, President Truman asked Congress to aid Greece and Turkey against authoritarian pressure. Which policy did this announce?

Which U.S. program sent economic aid to help rebuild Western Europe after World War II?

Which alliance, founded in 1949, committed the United States, Canada, and Western European members to collective defense?

After West Germany joined NATO, the Soviet Union and its Eastern European allies created which military alliance in 1955?

Which term described Eastern European countries dominated by the Soviet Union but not formally part of the USSR?

After World War II, which four powers occupied zones in Germany and Berlin?

The first Berlin crisis began when Soviet forces blocked land and water routes to western Berlin in 1948. How did the Western Allies respond?

Which dating of three Berlin confrontations is correct?

Which pairing of postwar Germany is correct?

Why did East Germany build the Berlin Wall in 1961?

In 1961, U.S. and Soviet tanks faced each other at a Berlin crossing without starting a war. Which site was this?

Which uprising against communist rule was crushed by Soviet forces in 1956?

Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia in 1968 to halt which reform movement?

On October 1, 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed which new government on mainland China?

After the Communists won the Chinese Civil War, what happened to Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government?

Which Mao-era campaign tried to raise production rapidly through communes and small-scale steel efforts?

What was a major result of the Great Leap Forward?

During the Cultural Revolution, which groups of young people attacked officials, teachers, and symbols of the old order?

Which order of Mao's two major mass campaigns is correct?

Which event improved U.S.-Chinese relations during Mao's lifetime and produced the Shanghai Communiqué?

How did the Korean War begin in June 1950?

Why could the UN Security Council condemn North Korea's invasion without a Soviet veto?

What changed the Korean War after UN forces moved north toward the Yalu River?

What did the 1953 Korean armistice do?

Which French defeat in 1954 led to negotiations that ended French rule in Indochina?

What did the 1954 Geneva settlement do to Vietnam?

Which resolution gave President Johnson broad authority to expand U.S. military action in Vietnam?

Why did the Tet Offensive shock many Americans in 1968?

Which Caribbean country became a close Soviet ally after a 1959 revolution led by Fidel Castro?

What happened at the Bay of Pigs in April 1961?

Which crisis brought the United States and Soviet Union closest to nuclear war in October 1962?

Which pairing of a Latin American country with a Cold War event is correct?

Which country saw an elected socialist president overthrown by a military coup under Augusto Pinochet in 1973?

Which pairing of a country with a Cold War conflict is correct?

Which 1957 Soviet launch began the space race by placing the first artificial satellite in orbit?

Which spacecraft became the first successful U.S. satellite in 1958?

Who became the first human to orbit Earth in 1961?

Which mission achieved the first crewed Moon landing in 1969?

Which 1963 arms-control treaty banned nuclear tests in the atmosphere, outer space, and underwater?

Which 1972 agreement limited anti-ballistic missile systems and set interim limits on strategic missiles?

Which Soviet leader introduced perestroika and glasnost in the 1980s?

Which 1987 treaty signed by Reagan and Gorbachev eliminated a whole class of land-based nuclear missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers?

How did Gorbachev's policy toward Eastern Europe differ from earlier Soviet responses in Hungary and Czechoslovakia?

What triggered the opening of the Berlin Wall in November 1989?

Which agreement helped settle the international terms for German reunification in 1990?

What was the effect of the failed August 1991 coup against Gorbachev?

Which event formally marked the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991?