Cold War quizzes

This collection of Cold War quizzes will help you test and revise your knowledge of the Cold War between 1945 and 1991. Each quiz contains 20 multiple choice questions. Results and answers are provided at the end of each quiz. A Javascript-enabled browser is required. These quizzes have been written by Alpha History authors.

The origins of the Cold War

Wartime conferences to the Marshall Plan

Post-war Germany to the Berlin Blockade

Nuclear weapons, McCarthyism and propaganda

Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis

The Cold War in Asia: China, Korea and Vietnam

The Cold War to 1979

The Reagan era to the fall of the Berlin Wall


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