3.1c Peaceful coexistence

Question 1

Who took over for Stalin after he died

Answer 1

Nikita Khrushchev

Question 2

Who took over for Truman

Answer 2

Dwight Eisenhower, because of anti-communism campaign promising to defeat communism

Question 3

What did Khrushchev think of Stalin

Answer 3

he criticised him and believed they should be in peaceful coexistence

Question 4

What does peaceful coexistence mean?

Answer 4

USA and USSR living without interfering with each other

Question 5

Why might new leaders make improved relations

Answer 5

Khrushchev wants peaceful coexistence
Eisenhower is scared of nuclear war

Question 6

Why might new leaders make improved relations less likely

Answer 6

Eisenhower is strongly anti communist

Question 7

Reason for peaceful coexistence:
USSR confidence in over all victory

Answer 7

Soviets believed communism would triumph of capitalism

Question 8

Reason for peaceful coexistence:
both sides stable and secure

Answer 8

division of Europe now entrenched

Question 9

Reason for peaceful coexistence:
Arms race is expensive and dangerous

Answer 9

Development of nuclear weapons made cold war very dangerous, both sides in fear of a nuclear war.

Question 10

Reason for peaceful coexistence:
Nothing to prove = confidence in ideology

Answer 10

Both sides believed each others economic output would overtake each other’s.