A-bomb And Telegrams

Question 1

Why did Truman and Stalin send Telegrams?

Answer 1

To know what rivals were thinking

Question 2

What happened in 1946?

Answer 2

Both Stalin and Truman got their embassies to send telegrams to other country

Question 3

When was A-bomb on Hiroshima?

Answer 3

6th August 1945

Question 4

When was Nagasaki?

Answer 4

9th August 1945

Question 5

How many Japanese Civilians died from both bombs?

Answer 5

Over 120,000

Question 6

What was the effect of the atomic bombs?

Answer 6

Made Soviet Union and other countries worried about these weapons

Question 7

What did George Kennan’s long telegram say?

Answer 7

Reported Stalin wanted destruction of capitalism and that he believed outside of the Soviet Union, people were trying to destroy communism

Question 8

What did Kennan believe about the Soviet Union from his own telegram?

Answer 8

That the USSR wasn’t suicidal

Question 9

What did the Novikov telegram report?

Answer 9

that USA wanted to use their military power for world domination and that since Roosevelt’s death, Americans didn’t want to work with the Soviet Union anymore and would support their own government if this led to war.

Question 10

How did the development of the atomic bomb make Western Europeans feel?

Answer 10

More secure about placing themselves under the protection of America rather than the Soviet Union

Question 11

How did Stalin want to make Soviet Union more secure after development of A-bombs?

Answer 11

By aiming to create a buffer zone of countries who work for communism between Germany and the Soviet Union’s western borders

Question 12

When did the USSR get their first A-bomb?

Answer 12

29th August 1949

Question 13

What happened after both superpowers had atomic bomb?

Answer 13

Went into an arms race to develop more powerful bombs than each other

Question 14

Who was George Kennan and what did he do?

Answer 14

America’s ambassador in Moscow. Sent a long telegram discussing US-Soviet relations

Question 15

Who was Novikov and what did he do?

Answer 15

Soviet diplomat working in Washington. Sent a telegram to Moscow government to show that neither side trusted each other

Question 16

Why did Truman like the idea of an atomic bomb?

Answer 16

Believed it would make it easier to persuade Stalin to allow Eastern European countries more freedom

Question 17

How did Stalin differ to Truman’s view on Eastern Europe?

Answer 17

He became more determined to make the Soviet Union secure

Question 18

How did tensions increase hugely during A-bombs?

Answer 18

Countries started to compete in an arms race

Question 19

How did USA’s idea to take charge over the Soviet Union with A-bombs backfire?

Answer 19

The USSR felt the need to get back with their own bombs

Question 20

How seriously did American’s take the long telegram?

Answer 20

Very seriously

Question 21

What policy did American government want in response to Long telegram?

Answer 21

Policy of ‘containment’ to stop communism spreading due to the fact that Kennan believed that if the Soviet Union were faced with strong resistance they would back down.

Question 22

How did Novikov telegram raise tensions?

Answer 22

Both sides didn’t trust each other

Question 23

How did the Novikov telegram have a big impact in Moscow?

Answer 23

They knew the Americans wouldn’t support the Soviet Union so Eastern Europe would need as much protection as possible.