Cold War Map Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which NATO member controlled the Bosporus and Dardanelles, the straits connecting the Black Sea with the Mediterranean?
Turkey
Greece
Italy
Portugal
2. Following the 1954 Geneva Accords, which Vietnamese state was located north of the temporary military demarcation line near the 17th parallel?
The Republic of Vietnam, or South Vietnam
The Democratic Republic of Vietnam, or North Vietnam
The Kingdom of Laos
The Khmer Republic
3. In the late Cold War, a land route from the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic to the Soviet territory of Kaliningrad would pass through which Soviet republic?
The Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Latvian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic
4. Which neutral country lay between NATO members Italy and West Germany and Warsaw Pact members Czechoslovakia and Hungary during much of the Cold War?
Switzerland
Belgium
Austria
Denmark
5. A late-1980s map shows a Warsaw Pact state with the Baltic Sea to its north, Poland to its east, Czechoslovakia to its south, and West Germany to its west. Which state is it?
Poland
Hungary
Romania
East Germany
6. A Cold War map highlights the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea. In which country is the canal located?
Israel
Jordan
Egypt
Syria
7. A map clue describes a Warsaw Pact country on the Black Sea with a direct land border with NATO member Turkey. Which country fits?
Bulgaria
Romania
Hungary
Albania
8. On a Cold War map of the Korean Peninsula, which state lay south of the Demilitarized Zone and was aligned with the United States?
North Korea
South Korea
Mongolia
Taiwan
9. Looking west from Alaska across the Bering Strait during the Cold War, which Soviet constituent republic occupied the opposite mainland?
The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic
The Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
10. A map of a major Cold War proxy conflict shows an Atlantic-facing African country bordering Namibia, Zambia, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Which country is it?
Angola
Tanzania
Mozambique
Somalia
11. Which landlocked country east of Iran and north of Pakistan was invaded by Soviet forces in 1979?
Afghanistan
Iraq
Mongolia
Nepal
12. On a political map of Europe in 1961, how would West Berlin appear?
As territory directly on the border between East and West Germany
As a contiguous eastern extension of West Germany
As the Soviet-administered half of a city inside West Germany
As a Western-administered enclave surrounded by East Germany
13. Which NATO member formed part of the alliance's northern flank and shared a land border with the Soviet Union?
Iceland
Denmark
Norway
The Netherlands
14. How should Yugoslavia usually be classified on a Cold War alliance map after its split with Stalin?
As a founding member of NATO
As a non-aligned socialist state outside both alliances
As a founding member of the Warsaw Pact
As a constituent republic of the Soviet Union
15. The site of the 1962 missile crisis was an island south of Florida and west of Hispaniola. Which island country was it?
Jamaica
Cuba
The Dominican Republic
The Bahamas
16. In 1955, which pairing correctly places one country in NATO and the other in the Warsaw Pact?
Austria—NATO; Hungary—Warsaw Pact
Poland—NATO; France—Warsaw Pact
France—NATO; Poland—Warsaw Pact
West Germany—Warsaw Pact; East Germany—NATO