Cold War Crises

Question 1

Khruschev’s Berlin ultimatum

Answer 1

1958

Question 2

Paris Summit

Answer 2

1960

Question 3

Construction of the Berlin Wall

Answer 3

1961

Question 4

Bay of Pigs invasion

Answer 4

1961

Question 5

The Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 5

1962

Question 6

President Kennedy’s visit to Berlin

Answer 6

1963

Question 7

Hotline set up between Washington and Moscow

Answer 7

1963

Question 8

The Limited Test ban treaty

Answer 8

1963

Question 9

The nuclear non-proliferation Treaty

Answer 9

1968

Question 10

The Prague Spring and Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia

Answer 10

1968

Question 11

Jan Palach sets himself on fire in Prague

Answer 11

1969

Question 12

Nikita Khrushchev

Answer 12

Leader of UUR from 1953 to 1964

Question 13

Dwight Eisenhower

Answer 13

President of USA from 1953 to 1961

Question 14

John F Kennedy

Answer 14

President of USA from 1961 - 1963

Question 15

Lyndon B Jonhson

Answer 15

President of USA from 1963 to 1968

Question 16

Richard Nixon

Answer 16

President of USA from 1969 to 1974

Question 17

Fidel Castro

Answer 17

Leader of Cuba from 1959 to 2011

Question 18

Alexander Dubcek

Answer 18

Chairman of Slovak communist party

Question 19

Leonid Brezhnev

Answer 19

Leader of USSR from 1964 to 1982

Question 20

Containment

Answer 20

US policy of opposing expansion of Communism into Non - Communist countries

Question 21

Sphere of Influence

Answer 21

Area of the world where one state in dominant

Question 22

Warsaw Pact

Answer 22

A military organisation between the Soviet Union and satellite states

Question 23

Brinkmanship

Answer 23

The tactic of seeming to approach the verge of war in order to persuade one’s opposition to retreat

Question 24

Berlin Ultimatum

Answer 24

Khruschev’s demand for Western Allies to leave Berlin

Question 25

Brezhnev’s doctrine

Answer 25

Policy justifying intervention for military intervention by Warsaw Pact forces in event of other Warsaw Pact state attempting to leave Soviet sphere or betraying Communism

Question 26

CIA

Answer 26

US office coordinating espionage and intelligence activities

Question 27

Defect

Answer 27

To leave one’s country in order to join a rival state

Question 28

Detent

Answer 28

An attempt to reduce tension between the superpowers

Question 29

Disarmament

Answer 29

To withdraw, reduce or abolish military weapons and force

Question 30

Dissident

Answer 30

Person who disagrees with the government

Question 31

Guerilla tactics

Answer 31

Use of ambushes, raids and sabotage by smaller group of combatants against larder military groups

Question 32

MAD

Answer 32

Mutually Assured Destruction

Question 33

Nuclear non Proliferation Treaty

Answer 33

Agreement that banned the non Nuclear states from gaining nuclear weapons by manufacture or transfer of technology

Question 34

Outer Space Treaty

Answer 34

Promise signed up by superpowers not to send nuclear weapons into space

Question 35

Limited Test ban Treaty

Answer 35

Ban on testing nuclear weapons in the atmosphere, outer space or underwater

Question 36

Prague Spring

Answer 36

Series of reforms by Alexander Dubcek introducing moderate socialism into Czechoslovakia

Question 37

Strategic Warheads

Answer 37

Warheads delivered by rockets and missiles that are linked to their delivery vehicle and ready to launch