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