🧠 The Cold War Quiz

Churchill made the famous 'iron curtain' speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, with US President Truman on the platform.

NATO was created through the North Atlantic Treaty, whose Article 5 treats an attack on one member as an attack on all.

The Wall's fall came after East Germany's government unexpectedly announced relaxed border crossing rules, and crowds poured through the checkpoints that night.

Glasnost means 'openness' and perestroika means 'restructuring', reforms Gorbachev hoped would revive the Soviet system but which helped hasten its end.

The Western Allies kept West Berlin supplied by air until the Soviets lifted the blockade, in one of the Cold War's first major standoffs.

Truman announced his doctrine to Congress in a speech that framed the world as a choice between two ways of life.

Dubcek's reform programme, branded 'socialism with a human face', was crushed when Warsaw Pact tanks rolled into Prague in August 1968.

The US-led boycott of the Moscow Games was answered four years later by a Soviet-led boycott of the Los Angeles Olympics.

Nagy was reburied with full honours in Budapest in a huge ceremony as communist rule crumbled in Hungary.

Kim Philby spent years as a Soviet agent inside British intelligence before slipping away to Moscow, where he lived out the rest of his life.