cold war - development of cold war 1950:1961

Question 1

when did nk invade sk

Answer 1

25 jun 1950

Question 2

when did un approve of sending army to help sk

Answer 2

july 1950

Question 3

when did china get invovled in the korean war, what also happened around that time

Answer 3

oct 1950, general macarthur sacked cause he watned to use atomic weapons

Question 4

when did peace talks begin for the korean war and when did they pick up again

Answer 4

jun 1951, picked up again 1952

Question 5

when did eisenhower replace truman

Answer 5

nov 1952

Question 6

when did stalin die

Answer 6

march 1953

Question 7

when was the armistice for korean war signed and where

Answer 7

27 july 1953, panmunjom

Question 8

how much did usa spend on korean war

Answer 8

$12-60 billion

Question 9

how many casulties did usa have [kw]

Answer 9

30k

Question 10

how many casualties did china have [kw]

Answer 10

0.5 million

Question 11

how many civilians died in korea [kw]

Answer 11

1/10

Question 12

how many casualties did korea have

Answer 12

1.3 million

Question 13

what percentage of the industrial buildings were destroyed in korea [kw]

Answer 13

80%

Question 14

when was SEATO set up

Answer 14

sept 1953

Question 15

when was the vietnam war

Answer 15

1945 - 1973, but officially 1957 - 1975

Question 16

when did cambodia and laos become communist

Answer 16

1975

Question 17

when did china become communist

Answer 17

1949

Question 18

when was the treaty of friendship made and between who

Answer 18

china and ussr, 1950

Question 19

what were the terms of the treaty of friendship

Answer 19

 USSR sent 20k ‘experts’ to help in China’s development at China’s cost
 USSR accepted 8k Chinese students to study science and technology
 $300 million to China but had to mainly be spent on Soviet products and the interest rates were high
 China had to surrender two major ports and mining rights to the Soviets

Question 20

when was nato made

Answer 20

april 1949

Question 21

when did ussr detonate first atomic bomb

Answer 21

aug 1949

Question 22

when did usa sac air policay identify targets in ussr in event of a war and how many were identified

Answer 22

1951, 6k

Question 23

when was usa’s 1st hydrogen bomb detonated

Answer 23

nov 1952

Question 24

when did ussr detonate its own h-bomb

Answer 24

aug 1953

Question 25

when did usa drop a h-bomb from a bomber

Answer 25

march 1954

Question 26

when did ussr drop h-bomb from a bomber

Answer 26

sept 1954

Question 27

when were icbms succesfully tested by both usa and ussr

Answer 27

1959

Question 28

when was the cuban missile crisis

Answer 28

1962

Question 29

name a town ussr created to house scientists and engineers during the arms race

Answer 29

Arzamas 16

Question 30

when was the duck and cover campaign taught across usa

Answer 30

1950s

Question 31

how much did usa spend of its defence spending on air force and nuclear weapons (ar)

Answer 31

40%

Question 32

what caused the bomber gap and when was it

Answer 32

ussr developed the bison jet bomber and long range TU-95, 1953 bomber gap

Question 33

when did eisenhower make his atoms for peace speech

Answer 33

8 dec 1953

Question 34

when was the warsaw pact

Answer 34

may 1955

Question 35

when was the space race

Answer 35

1955 - 1975

Question 36

when did USSR announce their similar intent to launch artificial satellites in response to the usa

Answer 36

aug 1955

Question 37

when did USSR began testing world’s 1st ICBM

Answer 37

may 1957

Question 38

when did USSR launch Sputnik 1, world’s first orbiting satellite

Answer 38

oct 1957

Question 39

when did USSR launch Sputnik 2 carrying a dog (Laika)

Answer 39

nov 1957

Question 40

when did usa launch explorer 1

Answer 40

jan 1958

Question 41

usa develops their own icbm

Answer 41

1959

Question 42

when did USA successfully launch Polaris submarines capable of launching nuclear missiles close to the shore of the USSR

Answer 42

july 1960

Question 43

when did Yuri Gagarin becomes first man to reach space (USSR)

Answer 43

april 1961

Question 44

when Apollo 8 becomes first human crewed space craft to reach moon and orbit it (USA)

Answer 44

dec 1968

Question 45

when did the first man on the moon

Answer 45

july 1969

Question 46

when was first crewed international space mission, carried out jointly by the United States and the Soviet Union (Apollo-Soyuz)

Answer 46

july 1975

Question 47

when was the secret speech and where by who

Answer 47

24-25 feb 1956 by Khrushchev at 20th Communist Party

Question 48

when was de-stalinisation

Answer 48

1956-1964

Question 49

when was the hungarian uprising

Answer 49

july-oct 1956

Question 50

by early 1950s, what percentage of hungary’s population had been imprisoned

Answer 50

5%

Question 51

when was rajk executed [hu]

Answer 51

1949

Question 52

when was cardinal mindszenty sent to prison

Answer 52

1949

Question 53

when did soviet tanks open fire on protestors and gero was repalced by kadar [hu]

Answer 53

25 oct 1956

Question 54

when was kadar reappointed

Answer 54

4 nov 1956

Question 55

how many troops and tanks did ussr send to remove nagy and crush the uprising

Answer 55

1k tanks, 200k troops

Question 56

how many troops died due to hungarian uprising

Answer 56

1k

Question 57

how many hungarians became refugees

Answer 57

200k

Question 58

when was nagy executed

Answer 58

1958

Question 59

how many protestors were arrested and executed during hungarian uprising

Answer 59

35k arrested, 300 kiled

Question 60

how many refugees did usa accept from hungary

Answer 60

80k

Question 61

when was the suez crisis

Answer 61

oct - nov 1956

Question 62

when did the U2 flights start

Answer 62

1956

Question 63

when was a U2 plane shot down and who was captured

Answer 63

1 may 1960, gary powers

Question 64

when did kennedy come into power

Answer 64

1963