Cold War Crisis

Question 1

Refugee Crisis 1958

Answer 1

4 million East Germans left for West Germany better conditions

Question 2

Who/why led Cuban revolution 1959

Answer 2

Group led by Castro and Guevara

USA refused to buy Cuba’s main export suagr

Question 3

Krushchev’s Berlin Ultimatum

Answer 3

Gave Western powers 6 months to agree to withdraw from Berlin

Make it free city

Question 4

When did Krushchev withdraw his ultimuatum

Answer 4

1959

Question 5

Paris Conference 1960

Answer 5

Krushchev walked out of conference after Eisenhower refused to apologise after Russia found US plane spying on the soviets

Question 6

Vienna summit 1961

Answer 6

Krushchev reissued his ultimatum but Kennedy refused and both began preparing for war

Question 7

When was construction of Berlin wall

Answer 7

13 August 1961

Question 8

How many people died from the wall

Answer 8

140

Question 9

What did Kennedy say about the wall June 1963

Answer 9

Speech that Berlin was symbol of freedom and struggle against communism

Question 10

Impact of Berlin wall on USSR and US relations

Answer 10

Reduced tension

Fewer military alerts

Created long lasting symbol of cold war

Question 11

Bay of pigs crisis April 1961

Answer 11

USA sent 1400 exiled Cuban rebels to overthrow Castro

Castro turned to USSR for portection

Question 12

Events Cuban Missile Crisis October 1962

Answer 12

American U-2 spy planes took pictures of nuclear weapons in Cuba

Kennedy placed US naval blockades around Cuba

Agreed USSR dismantles their nuclear missiles if USA secretly dismantle theirs in Turkey

Question 13

Prague Spring April 1968

Answer 13

Dubcek wanted to give people political freedom and reduce USSR control

Brezhnev (USSR leader) sent troops from warsaw pacts for authority

Question 14

What happened to Dubcek

Answer 14

Arrested and taken to Moscow wnd forced to reverse all reforms

Question 15

Brezhnev Doctrine 1968

Answer 15

USSR had right to invade any country in its infouence which threatened stability of eastern Europe

Question 16

Who condemned USSR invasion of czechoslovakia

Answer 16

The west

Many eastern europe countries

Communist China

Question 17

Consequences of Cuban Missile Crisis

Answer 17

Hotline 1963

Limited Test Ban treaty 1963

Outer Space Treaty 1967

Nuclear non Proliferation treaty 1968

Question 18

Hotline 1963

Answer 18

Direct communication line between washington and Moscow

Question 19

Limited Test Ban Treaty 1963

Answer 19

Prohibits testing nuclear weapons in space, underwater, atmosphere

Question 20

Outer Space Treaty 1967

Answer 20

Prohibits putting nuclear weapons in outer space

Question 21

Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty 1968

Answer 21

Countries who signed could not share their nuclear technology with others