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Cold War: 1958-1961 - U2 Flights And The Berlin Wall
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Q.1.
Which US government agency co-operated closely with anti-Castro Cuban exiles attempting to invade the island in 1961?
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The FBI
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The CIA
100%
The State Department
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The Pentagon
Q.2.
Who was the U2 pilot, who was captured and put on trial in 1960?
100%
Gary Powers
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Buzz Aldrin
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Douglas MacArthur
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Arnold Whitman
Q.3.
Which East German leader ordered the building of a wall to divide West Berlin from the Eastern Soviet Sector?
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Willi Stoph
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Otto Grotewohl
100%
Walter Ulbricht
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Erich Honecker
Q.4.
At which battle in 1961 were anti-Castro exiles forced back into the sea when they tried to invade the island?
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Moncada Barracks
100%
The Bay of Pigs
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Guantanamo Bay
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Havana
Q.5.
Which Soviet leader approved the wall's construction and promised to defend it with military force in 1961?
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Malenkov
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Kosygin
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Brezhnev
100%
Khrushchev
Q.6.
Which close associate of Fidel Castro hailed from Argentina and had trained as a doctor?
100%
Raoul Castro
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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Juan Peron
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Hugo Chavez
Q.7.
Which pro-American dictator was forced into exile by Castro's success in taking over Cuba?
100%
Batista
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Frei
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Stroessner
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Kubishek
Q.8.
Which Republican politician served as Eisenhower's Vice President from 1956 to 1960?
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Richard Nixon
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Henry Kissinger
100%
Gerald Ford
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Henry Cabot Lodge
Q.9.
How was the American U2 spy 'plane shot down over Soviet Russia in 1960?
100%
By conventional anti-aircraft fire
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By intercepting Soviet fighter 'planes
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By surface to air missile
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By unmanned drone
Q.10.
Who served as Kennedy's Vice-President from 1961?
100%
Walter Mondale
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Bobby Kennedy
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Lyndon Johnson
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George McGovern
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