Cold War facts

Question 1

agreed at Yalta Conference Germany would pay … in reparations

Answer 1

$20bn

Question 2

at United Nations … Soviet Republics only represented under USSR

Answer 2

16

Question 3

US atomic bombs killed … Japanese citizens in Hiroshima & Nagasaki

Answer 3

~120,000

Question 4

Truman gave … to support Greece & Turkey to fight communism

Answer 4

$400 million

Question 5

1948-52 US gave … in aid to European countries - Britain received … & W. Germany received …

Answer 5

$12.7/13 bn?
$3.3bn
$1.4bn

Question 6

Cominform had … members

Answer 6

9

Question 7

(Berlin Blockade) USA able to fly in … of supplies each day

Answer 7

1,000 tonnes

Question 8

Jan 1949 … of supplies received by W. Berlin

Answer 8

170,000 tonnes

Question 9

NATO = made of USA, Britain, France & … other Western countries

Answer 9

9

Question 10

hydrogen bomb = …x more powerful than atomic bomb

Answer 10

1,000

Question 11

inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) could fire at target … away

Answer 11

4,500km

Question 12

(Hungarian Uprising) … tanks returned to Budapest to re-assert Soviet control

Answer 12

1,000

Question 13

(Hungarian Uprising) … Hungarians killed

Answer 13

~20,000

Question 14

(Hungarian Uprising) … Soviet troops killed

Answer 14

~7,000

Question 15

(Hungarian Uprising) … Hungarians fled country

Answer 15

~200,000

Question 16

by 1958 … Germans had fled E. Germany & moved to the West

Answer 16

3 million
1/6 of E. German pop.

Question 17

by 1958 … E. Germans fleeing every month

Answer 17

over 20,000

Question 18

(Berlin Wall) in response to the re-issued Berlin Ultimatum JFK announced increased military spending by

Answer 18

$2bn

Question 19

Berlin Wall = … high & … long

Answer 19

12 feet
165km

Question 20

… people killed trying to cross Berlin Wall

Answer 20

over 130

Question 21

… Cuban exiles landed at Bay of Pigs but … Cuban soldiers ready to fight off

Answer 21

1400
20,000

Question 22

Intermediate range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) range of

Answer 22

3,500km

Question 23

(CMC) JFK prepared … bombers with … nuclear warheads

Answer 23

54
4

Question 24

Vietnam War cost USA … & resulted in … American deaths

Answer 24

billions of dollars
60,000

Question 25

ABM Treaty (part of SALT I) = anti-ballistic missiles only allowed at … sites & each site could have max. … missiles

Answer 25

2
100

Question 26

Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms (part of SALT I) imposed … freeze on total num. ICBMs & SLBMs each side allowed

Answer 26

5 year

Question 27

at Helsinki Accords USA, USSR & … other nations made declarations about … key international issues

Answer 27

33
3

Question 28

SALT II (not ratified) = agreed to limit of … ICBMs, SLBMs & heavy bombers

Answer 28

2,400

Question 29

20th Aug 1968 … Warsaw Pact troops entered Czechoslovakia

Answer 29

500,000

Question 30

(Czechoslovakia) … protestors killed

Answer 30

over 100

Question 31

Brezhnev ordered … troops to invade Afghanistan

Answer 31

50,000

Question 32

(Afghanistan) required … Soviet soldiers to keep Kamal in power

Answer 32

85,000

Question 33

Soviet soldiers remained in Afghanistan for … years fighting Kamal’s opponents - cost USSR … per year

Answer 33

10
almost $8bn

Question 34

… nations supported US boycott of Moscow Olympic Games

Answer 34

over 60

Question 35

USSR led boycott of Los Angeles Olympics joined by … communist countries

Answer 35

15

Question 36

Reagan persuaded Congress to increase US spending on arms & defence by … in 1982 & further … in 1983

Answer 36

13%
8%

Question 37

… satellite states (of …) announced they were forming separate Commonwealth of Independent States

Answer 37

12
15

Question 38

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty = agreed would abolish land-based missiles with range of …

Answer 38

500-5,500km