A fast-paced and engaging Cold War revision quiz based on the popular House of Games style Answer Smash round.

Students must combine the answer to a history question with the image on screen to create a single “smashed” answer. For example:

Image answer + history answer → one combined phrase

Example:
Ghost + Star Wars → Ghostar Wars

This quiz contains 10 Answer Smash questions focused on the end of the Cold War, helping students revise key events, leaders and agreements from the late Cold War period.

Topics include:

The 1980 Moscow Olympics boycott

The Apollo-Soyuz Mission

The Geneva Summit (1985)

SALT I

The INF Treaty

The Helsinki Accords

The Moscow Summit (1988)

Jimmy Carter and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

The fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)

Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (“Star Wars”)

This resource works well as:
• A revision starter
• A retrieval practice activity
• A fun plenary
• A Cold War revision lesson

Students can play individually, in pairs or in teams. Simply display the slides and have students “smash” the answers together.

This resource is part of a larger Cold War House of Games quiz series covering:

Cold War Origins

Cold War Crises

The End of the Cold War

Perfect for GCSE Cold War units including:
Edexcel • AQA • OCR • Eduqas