Cold War 9

Question 1

What percentage of votes did the Czech Communist Party win in 1946?

Answer 1

38%

Question 2

When did Dubcek become leader of Czechoslovakia?

Answer 2

January 1968

Question 3

What did Dubcek want for communism?

Answer 3

‘Socialism with a human face’

Question 4

List 2 reforms done by Dubcek following his inauguration.

Answer 4

1) Replaced key officials without Soviet approval
2) Eliminated press censorship

Question 5

When did the Warsaw Pact issue the Warsaw Letter to Czechoslovakia?

Answer 5

July 14th-15th 1968

Question 6

What was the Warsaw Letter?

Answer 6

A letter outlining the concerns of the Warsaw Pact regarding Dubcek’s reforms

Question 7

When was Khrushchev ousted as leader of the USSR?

Answer 7

October 1964

Question 8

Did Brezhnev continue Khrushchev’s policy of destalinisation?

Answer 8

No

Question 9

When was the Prague Spring?

Answer 9

5th Jan - 21st Aug 1968

Question 10

How many Warsaw Pact soldiers entered Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring?

Answer 10

Approx 500,000

Question 11

Why was one state deviating from the bloc a major concern?

Answer 11

The Soviets were concerned it could lead to a domino effect.

Question 12

When was the Brezhnev Doctrine delivered?

Answer 12

November 1968

Question 13

What did the Brezhnev Doctrine declare?

Answer 13

The USSR would use military force to keep bloc countries in line with the Soviet beliefs

Question 14

Why did Mao dislike the Brezhnev Doctrine?

Answer 14

He felt it would be used to invade China

Question 15

In 1953 what percentage of PRC exports were bought by the USSR?

Answer 15

60%

Question 16

When did the USSR withdraw nuclear advisors from China?

Answer 16

1959

Question 17

When did China try and recruit other communist states into its own alternative bloc?

Answer 17

November 1960

Question 18

Which countries agreed to join China’s alternative bloc?

Answer 18

Albania, Burma and Malaysia

Question 19

What happened during the 1963 Sino-Soviet border dispute?

Answer 19

China wanted parts of Siberia and Central Asia back from Russia - build up of Soviet forces on China’s border

Question 20

When did China successfully detonate a nuclear bomb, making them less reliant on the USSR for protection?

Answer 20

October 1964

Question 21

When, during the Chinese cultural revolution, was the USSR embassy beseiged?

Answer 21

1966

Question 22

When was the Sino-US ‘Stand Off’ agreement confirmed and what did it say?

Answer 22

1966 - the US promised not to attack China or invade North Vietnam

Question 23

When did China test the hydrogen bomb?

Answer 23

1967

Question 24

When did Chinese forces ambush Soviet patrol near the Ussuri River?

Answer 24

March 1969 - 800 Chinese dead following Soviet retaliation

Question 25

When did the USSR have plans to use nuclear bombs on China?

Answer 25

Summer 1969

Question 26

When was the Dzungarian Gate incident?

Answer 26

13th August 1969

Question 27

When did Soviet prime minister Alexei Kosygin meet with Chinese prime minister Zhou Enlai enter secret talks to avoid war?

Answer 27

September 1969

Question 28

When did triangular diplomacy begin?

Answer 28

1971

Question 29

What is triangular diplomacy?

Answer 29

A foreign policy strategy where a power uses its relationship with one country to influence another, leveraging the rivalry or competition between the two to its advantage.

Question 30

When did Nixon visit China?

Answer 30

1972

Question 31

What was trade between the US and China valued at following the Paris Peace Agreement?

Answer 31

$700 million

Question 32

When did Mao die?

Answer 32

1976

Question 33

Who was Mao's successor?

Answer 33

Deng Xiaoping

Question 34

When was the Tiananmen Square massacre?

Answer 34

June 1989

Question 35

When did Soviet economic advisors leave China?

Answer 35

1960