Topic 1: The U-2 Incident

How were the blocks in the Cold War formed?

• The Allies - The Axis

• Western Block - Eastern Block

• Conservatives - Liberals

• Americans - Soviets

In what month and year did the U-2 incident occurred?

• May 1960

• February 1959

• July 1963

• October 1962

What was the Iron Curtain?

• A iron wall that divided Eastern Europe from Western Europe

• A soviet military base on Eastern Germany

• The line in the Mediterranean Sea that divided the two blocks

• The border between Eastern and Western Germany that divided the two blocks.

When was the Berlin Wall built?

• 1956

• 1975

• 1961

• 1989

What made the U-2 planes so good for spionage?

• They where fast enough to fly over a military base without getting detected.

• They were designed on a way that makes them undetectable to radars.

• They resembled soviet planes so the enemies could not realize they were from the CIA.

• They could fly in such a high altitude that most radars couldn't detect them and most anti-aircraft weapons were unable to reach them.

Why was espionage so intense and important during the cold war?

• It allowed a country to protect it's important classified information from getting known by enemy countries.

• It allowed a country to get important classified information from another one and use it to gain military and political advantage.

• It was the best way to directly cause economic damage to an enemy country.

• It was a very cheap and easy way to secretly gain information.

What major diplomatic event was going to happen soon?

• An international treaty to moderate american and soviet military actions

• The general assembly of the United Nations

• The Paris Summit of 1960

• Territorial negotiations about the border between Eastern and Western Germany.

Which of the following are the two main intelligence agencies that acted in the cold war.

• The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Committee for State Security (KGB)

• The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6)

• The Chief Intelligence Office (GRU) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

• The National Security Agency (NSA) and the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)

In which way did the US and the USSR solved the problem?

• The US offered classified russian documents that the CIA had stolen in exchange for Gary Powers

• The US gave the USSR a fragment of Western Germany

• The US gave up a part of their nuclear arsenal

• The US released a soviet spy they had captured in exchange for Gary Powers.

In which city was the "spy swap" done?

• Berlin

• Warsaw

• Moscow

• None of the above