Cold War

Question 1

A struggle over political differences carried on by means short of military action or war.

Answer 1

Cold War.

Question 2

During ww2 USA and Soviet Union were uneasy allies. Why?

Answer 2

1. (USA felt betrayed) Soviet/German nonaggression pact.
2. (USSR felt betrayed) - Allies delay in attacking Europe (D-Day)

Question 3

Create a Post-war peace.

Answer 3

Yalta conference.

Question 4

4 zones they agreed to divide Germany into 4 zones:

Answer 4

1. French.
2. British.
3. USA.
4. Soviet Union.

Question 5

What was the promise of Stalin?

Answer 5

He promised to give Eastern European countries free elections after war.

Question 6

Major goals of the Soviet Union were to:

Answer 6

1. Shield itself from another invasion from the west.
2. Spread communism.

Question 7

Major goals of the USA were to:

Answer 7

1. Stop the spread of communism.
2. Spread democracy.

Question 8

Potsdam conference.

Answer 8

1. Stalin said he was not going to allow free elections in Eastern Europe.
2. He declared that the communism and democracy could not exist in the same world. (The Cold War began)

Question 9

2 German states - created:

Answer 9

1. Federal Republic of Germany - West Germany - FRG.
2. German Democratic Republic - East Germany - GDR.

Question 10

Gave military aid and weapons to any country in the world that resisted and rejected communism.

Answer 10

Truman Doctrine.

Question 11

Economic assistance program to rebuild Western europe after the war (13 billion)

Answer 11

Marshall Plan.

Question 12

First major conflict in the Cold War.

Answer 12

Soviets gave up and lifted blockade in 1949.

Question 13

Two i=rival military alliances formed during the Cold War:

Answer 13

1. North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Led by USA, Canada and Western Europe.
2. Warsaw Pact ( Soviet Bloc) Led by the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Question 14

The capacity to launch weapons from space.

Answer 14

Space Race. (1957 - 1969)

Question 15

1957

Answer 15

• Soviets created the first ICBM (Intercontinental Ballistic Missile)
• Soviets launched Sputnik I - the first unmanned satellite in space.
• Soviets launch a dog into space - First living thing.

Question 16

1958

Answer 16

• USA launches Explorer I - First communication satellite.

Question 17

1960

Answer 17

• USA launched the first spy planes - (U-2s)

Question 18

1961

Answer 18

• Soviets launched Yuri Gagarin - First man into space.
• USA launches Allen Sheppard into space.

Question 19

1962

Answer 19

• USA - John Glenn - First to orbit the earth.

Question 20

1969

Answer 20

• USA - Neil Armstrong - First to step on the moon.

Question 21

Red scare/ Red Hunt - 1950’s

Answer 21

• Fear that the communists had infiltrated spies into the US government.
• Joseph McCarthy - led investigation.

Question 22

Berlin Wall - 1961

Answer 22

• living conditions in east Berlin - very bad!
• (1949 - 1961) - hundreds of thousands of east Berliners fled to the west (young and talented)
• Soviet Union built a wall up over night to keep the people in.
• Wall divided east and West Berlin over 100 miles long.

Question 23

1961 communist take over Cuba.

Answer 23

• Fidel Castro
• USA greatly concerned

Question 24

1961 - Bay of pigs invasion (Cuba)

Answer 24

• Pres. John F Kennedy gave approval to an over throw of the communist government.
• CIA trained Cuban exiles.
• Failed miserably.
• Cuba turned to the Soviet Union for protection.

Question 25

1962 - Cuban missile Crisis

Answer 25

- Nikita Khrushchev (Soviet leader) placed several nuclear missiles in Cuba - all pointed towards the USA. - Kennedy demanded they be removed. - USA set up a blockade of the island. - Soviet sub!! Story - Soviet Union backed off

Question 26

In what year Kennedy was assassinated?

Answer 26

1963 - by Lee Harvey Oswald.