Edexcel GCSE History Superpower relations and the Cold War overview quiz quiz

The Berlin Wall

The Maginot Line

The Warsaw Pact

The Iron Curtain

Stopping communism from spreading further

Removing communism where it already existed

Spreading communism worldwide

Ignoring the USSR

By invading East Germany

With the Berlin Airlift

By withdrawing from Berlin

By building a wall

To defend East Berlin against an expected NATO ground invasion

To divide the whole of Germany into four occupation zones

To stop East Germans fleeing west through Berlin

To provoke the Cuban Missile Crisis the following year

A full US ground invasion of Cuba launched by President Kennedy

The sudden building of the Berlin Wall to seal off the city

The Soviet Union invading Afghanistan to back its government

A U-2 spy plane finding Soviet missile sites in Cuba

Khrushchev removed the missiles for a US promise not to invade Cuba and a secret removal of US missiles from Turkey

The USA launched a full-scale invasion of Cuba and overthrew Fidel Castro's communist government within a matter of days

The USSR fired its nuclear missiles at American cities before any negotiated settlement could be reached by the two sides

Cuba broke away from the Soviet bloc entirely and asked the United States for protection against any future attack

Join NATO immediately and launch an attack on the USSR

Leave the Warsaw Pact and end one-party rule

Build a fortified wall right through the centre of Budapest

Invade neighbouring Czechoslovakia to spread the revolt

A large-scale Soviet invasion of Poland to crush a workers' uprising

A major Soviet nuclear weapons test carried out in central Asia

Dubcek's reforms in Czechoslovakia, 'socialism with a human face'

A sustained US bombing campaign against Warsaw Pact forces

A US military plan to defend Western Europe against any future Soviet invasion across the border

A treaty between the superpowers banning all underground and atmospheric nuclear weapons tests

A joint American and Soviet plan to reunify Germany peacefully into a single neutral country

The Soviet claim of the right to intervene in any communist state where socialism was threatened

Both sides could destroy each other, so neither dared start a nuclear war

Only one superpower had nuclear weapons, so it could attack without any fear of reply

All nuclear weapons had been completely banned by an international disarmament treaty

The USSR could easily defeat the USA in a nuclear war and survive almost undamaged

The thirteen days of the Cuban Missile Crisis

The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The sudden building of the Berlin Wall overnight

The signing of the first SALT arms control treaty

Tighter censorship of the press and a much bigger Red Army

Invading Eastern Europe to tighten Soviet control over it

Glasnost, perestroika and arms reduction

Building new walls across the divided cities of Europe

1985 and 1987

1979 and 1981

1961 and 1962

1989 and 1991