Bill O'Reilly: O'Reilly's History Quiz - Test Your Knowledge of the Berlin Wall

1. Workers began to build the Berlin Wall on August 13th of what year?

1955

1961

1965

1971

1980

2. Berlin was divided into how many sections in 1945?

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

3. What conferences partitioned Berlin?

Malta and Potsdam

Potsdam and Paris

Paris and Vienna

Berlin and Vienna

Yalta and Potsdam

4. The Soviets were deeply unhappy with western influence in Berlin and blockaded the city in 1948. This led to the Allied effort known as what?

Checkpoint Charlie

Charlie Airlift

Berlin Airlift

People's Airlift

Berlin Food Drop

5. Who was Soviet premier when the wall was erected?

Krushchev

Gorbachev

Yeltsin

Stalin

Lenin

6. All along the East German side of the wall, there was an open area known as what?

Easy Crossing

Mineshaft

Gauntlet

Death Strip

Easy Passing

7. What was the name of the best known checkpoint during the Cold War?

Checkpoint Alpha

Checkpoint Bravo

Checkpoint Charlie

Checkpoint Delta

Checkpoint Omega

8. The construction of the wall was a result of what cold war crisis?

Cuban Missile Crisis

Berlin Crisis

Space Race

Gulf of Tonkin

Shanghai Crisis

9. The capture of what aircraft in 1960 nullified any talks over the occupational status of Berlin?

B-52

Stealth Bomber

MiG-23

Phantom II

U-2 Spy Plane

10. What president declared on June 23, 1963, that he too was a Berliner?

Kennedy

Nixon

Eisenhower

Johnson

Truman