Question

which event is condisderd the closest the soviet union and the united states came to actual war during the cold war?

a. The building of the berlin wall
b. The occupation of Germany after world war II
c. The Bay of Pigs
d. The fall of the Berlin Wall

What was the main cause of the cold war?
a. The stockpiling of nuclear weapons by the US
b. Ideological differences between western and eastern European countries
c. The Bay of Pigs incident in Cuba
d. The fall of the Berlin wall

Which of the following best describes the cold war?

a. Covert hostility between western democratic nations and eastern communist nations
b. Barriers built by communist governments in eastern Europe as a buffer against the west
c. a political association of European countries seeking peace and political stability
d. A wall in berlin separating the eastern and western parts of the city

Answer 1

the first is hard, since most people consider the answer to be the Cuban Missile Crisis. Of those, I'd probably choose the Bay of Pigs invasion because the US tried to overthrow the USSR's Cuban allies.

For the second I'd say the stockpiling of nuclear weapons. The ideological differences existed before WW2 but it was the missiles that made the US and the USSR afraid of each other.

The third is obviously A, although the answer isn't wholly correct because the US's allies in the Cold War weren't always democratic, and it's debatable how Communist the East was.