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Key Milestones of the Cold War: Multiple Choice
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- 01The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution in 1964 gave which U.S. President broad authority to escalate military involvement in Vietnam?
- 02What was the Western Allies' response to the Soviet Union's blockade of West Berlin in 1948-1949?
- 03The Berlin Wall, a primary symbol of the Cold War, fell in what year?
- 04The Cold War is generally considered to have ended with the dissolution of which country in December 1991?
- 05The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis involved a tense standoff between which two world leaders?
- 06Who famously declared in a 1946 speech that an "iron curtain" had descended across the continent of Europe?
- 07The Soviet Union's costly and ultimately unsuccessful war, often called the 'Soviet's Vietnam', took place in which country from 1979 to 1989?
- 08What was the name of the first artificial satellite, launched by the Soviet Union in 1957, which effectively began the Space Race?
- 09Mikhail Gorbachev's policy of 'openness' and greater freedom of expression in the Soviet Union was known as:
- 10The period of eased tensions between the US and the Soviet Union during the 1970s is known by what French term?
- 11The military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states in response to NATO was called the:
- 12The Korean War, a major proxy conflict of the Cold War, began in what year?