Cold War Part2

Question 1

What did the airlift make the US look

Answer 1

peaceful and generous

Question 2

What did Stalin do by 1948

Answer 2

tried to starve western berlin into surrender to make it part of the soviets control

Question 3

What did Stalin do to block transport from west germany into west berlin

Answer 3

Berlin blockade

Question 4

What triggered the Berlin Blockade

Answer 4

when the british and US merged there zones to create “Bizonia” and then West Germany when the French also merged their zone

Question 5

What did the Western Powers do to avoid surrendering to the Soviets

Answer 5

Berlin Airlift

Question 6

How many planes and tonnes of supplies were sent every day

Answer 6

nearly 300,000 planes and about 4000tonnes

Question 7

When did Stalin call of the Blockade

Answer 7

May 1949

Question 8

What 2 countries were created because of the Berlin Blockade

Answer 8

West Germany (the FRG) and East Germany (the GDR)

Question 9

When was the formation of NATO created

Answer 9

1949

Question 10

What is NATO

Answer 10

a western military alliance with the US committed to defending Western Europe from Soviet attack

Question 11

When was the Warsaw Pact created

Answer 11

1955

Question 12

What is the Warsaw Pact

Answer 12

a soviet controlled military alliance in Eastern Europe

Question 13

Why did the Soviet create the Warsaw Pact

Answer 13

in response to West Germany joining NATO

Question 14

What did the NATO alliance show about the US

Answer 14

Showed that the West were prepared to risk war rather than abandon West Berlin to communist control (keeping promise of Truman Doctrine)

Question 15

When did the Soviet Union get their own Atomic Bomb

Answer 15

1949

Question 16

What race were the Warsaw Pact and Nato competing in

Answer 16

an armsrace

Question 17

When did Stalin die

Answer 17

1953

Question 18

Who replaced Stalin when he died

Answer 18

Khrushchev

Question 19

When was Krushchev’s secret speech

Answer 19

1956

Question 20

What did Khrushchev say in his secret speech

Answer 20

he condemned the repression of Stalin and suggested that he wanted to relax Soviet control of Eastern Europe

Question 21

What was the policy called when Khrushchev wanted to relax soviet control of Eastern Europe

Answer 21

destalinisation

Question 22

Why did Nagy (leader of Hungary) want to leave the Warsaw Pact and hold free elections

Answer 22

because soviet control of the economy had led to poor harvests

Question 23

When was the Hungarian Uprising

Answer 23

1956

Question 24

What did many people think the US would do about the uprising

Answer 24

to help against the communist rule

Question 25

What encouraged the Hungarian Uprising

Answer 25

US radio broadcasts on Radio Free Europe

Question 26

What did Khrushchev do and why

Answer 26

sent 200,000 soviet troops to restore order and overthrow Nagy’s government because he thought the uprising my spread to other soviet satellites states

Question 27

What does MAD stand for and what does it mean

Answer 27

Mutually Assured Destruction- the knowledge that no side could really win a nuclear war between the two military alliances

Question 28

How many Hungarians were killed

Answer 28

5000

Question 29

How many Hungarian refugees did the USA take

Answer 29

80,000

Question 30

What happened to Nagy

Answer 30

He was arrested tried and executed

Question 31

Who did Khrushchev appoint as new Hungarian leader with a more moderate form of communism

Answer 31

Kadar

Question 32

What did the UN (united nations) condemn

Answer 32

the Hungarian invasion

Question 33

Why did some countries boycott the 1956 Australian Olympics

Answer 33

in protest of Hungarian Invasion

Question 34

What did this show about the Western Powers

Answer 34

that they would not intervene to defend the freedom of people behind the iron curtain because the rust of WW3 was too close

Question 35

What was now firmly established

Answer 35

Soviets control of Eastern Europe

Question 36

How many refugees had crossed through the border to the West in 12 years

Answer 36

nearly 3 million

Question 37

When did Khrushchev issue his ultimatum that the West should leave West Berlin within six months

Answer 37

1958

Question 38

Between what years were a series of summit meetings taken place to avoid war

Answer 38

1959-61

Question 39

What was the Geneva and Camp David 1959 meeting

Answer 39

Agreement to keep talking but no solutions

Question 40

What was the Paris meeting

Answer 40

Theatrically abandoned by Khrushchev after the U2 spy plane incident

Question 41

What was the Vienna meeting

Answer 41

Khrushchev miscalculated and tried to bully the new president John.F.Kennedy and reissue his ultimatum. It backfired as Kennedy increased defence spending and got ready for war

Question 42

How did Khrushchev solve the refugee problem

Answer 42

by building the Berlin Wall (sealing the island of capitalism so it could not be “contaminate” East Germany)

Question 43

What was the wall before it became a solid two walls

Answer 43

barbed wire

Question 44

Where was the Berlin wall build

Answer 44

in east berlin

Question 45

Did the wall successfully stop the refugee problem

Answer 45

yes

Question 46

Why was the Berlin Wall terrible propaganda for communism for the next 28 years

Answer 46

anyone who tried to escape communism was shot

Question 47

What did the Western Powers do considering Khrushchevs ultimatum

Answer 47

they stayed in Berlin despite his ultimatum

Question 48

Who was greeted as a hero in West Berlin and when

Answer 48

John.F.Kennedy in 1963

Question 49

Why was he greeted as a hero

Answer 49

because he made his famous “ich bin ein Berliner” speech

Question 50

What was JFK’s speech saying

Answer 50

that he would never allow West Berlin to become communist

Question 51

When was the berlin wall built

Answer 51

1961