The Development of the Cold War quiz: the Korean War, the nuclear arms race, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War (N(A)-Level Humanities, History elective) quiz

Germany invaded Korea

The United States invaded China

Communist North Korea invaded South Korea

Korea joined the Soviet Union

It did nothing

It surrendered to North Korea

It supported North Korea

It led a United Nations force to push the invasion back, putting containment into action in Asia

China

Britain

Japan

France

With Korea reunited under communism

With the war ending roughly where it began, near the original border

With the United States conquering all of Korea

With the Soviet Union taking over Korea

A race to build the fastest cars

A plan to ban all weapons

The competition between the superpowers to build ever more powerful nuclear weapons

A space exploration project only

Only one side could be destroyed

The two sides agreed to disarm completely

Nuclear weapons were harmless

Any nuclear attack would lead to the total destruction of both sides, so neither could win

It may have helped prevent direct war, since neither side could win a nuclear exchange

It made direct war between the superpowers more likely

It had no effect on the superpowers

It caused the superpowers to merge

The United States invaded the Soviet Union

The Soviet Union placed nuclear missiles in Cuba, close to the United States

Cuba attacked Britain

China tested a bomb in Cuba

It was a minor disagreement

No nuclear weapons were involved

The two superpowers came to the brink of nuclear war

It was settled instantly with no tension

With a nuclear war

With the Soviet Union keeping its missiles in Cuba

With the United States invading Cuba

With a deal: the Soviet Union removed its missiles in return for an American promise not to invade Cuba and the quiet removal of American missiles from Turkey

To stop the spread of communism in Asia

To spread communism

To help the Soviet Union

To colonise Vietnam

Because it had no soldiers

Because the communists used guerrilla tactics with local support and the war grew costly and unpopular at home

Because Vietnam had a larger army than the United States

Because the United States never fought there

The United States conquered Vietnam

Vietnam became part of the United States

The United States withdrew and Vietnam was united under communism

The Soviet Union invaded Vietnam

Because the wars had nothing in common

Because they took place in Europe

Because neither war involved the United States

Because both were attempts to contain communism in Asia, but with very different results