Cold war spend

Question 1

What was the geographical size of the USSR?

Answer 1

21 million sq acres

Question 2

What was the USA’s economy worth?

Answer 2

$2100 Billion

Question 3

When was the Tehran Conference?

Answer 3

1943

Question 4

When was the Yalta Conference?

Answer 4

1945

Question 5

When was the Potsdam Conference?

Answer 5

1945

Question 6

When was Comintern?

Answer 6

1919

Question 7

When was the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 7

1947

Question 8

When was the Marshall Plan?

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

When was Comeinform?

Answer 9

1947

Question 10

When was Comecon?

Answer 10

1949

Question 11

Why were the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine described as “Two sides of the same walnut”?

Answer 11

Symbolises the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctrine as two sides containing communism

Question 12

How much did Truman promise he was going to provide in economic help to Greece and Turkey in the Truman Doctrine?

Answer 12

$400 million

Question 13

In the Truman Doctrine, what did he compare capitalism and communism with?

Answer 13

“Good and Evil”

Question 14

Due to the Marshall Plan, how much did the US provide in economic help to Europe and when?

Answer 14

over $13 Billion

Question 15

What did the British Foreign Secretary describe the Marshall Plan as?

Answer 15

“Lifeline to sinking men”

Question 16

What was “Dollar Imperialism”?

Answer 16

After the Marshall Plan, Stalin felt as if the USA were trying to become powerful by giving out “free” money; a way to use money to take control and have influence over other countries

Question 17

What was the “Iron Curtain”?

Answer 17

An imaginary divide between Eastern Europe (Comm) and Western Europe (Cap)

Question 18

What did the Truman Doctrine force the US to be?

Answer 18

the “World’s Policeman”, dealing with all threats to Capitalism

Question 19

Due to the Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan, what did the US have to abandon?

Answer 19

Its traditional Policy of “isolationism”, which was not to get involved in the affairs of foreign countries

Question 20

When was the Deutschmark currency created?

Answer 20

1948; made USSR feel left out + trade restirctions

Question 21

When was it agreed that West Germany could join NATO?

Answer 21

1955

Question 22

How long did the Berlin Airlift last?

Answer 22

15 months

Question 23

Due to the Berlin Airlift, how many tonnes of supplies were sent every day?

Answer 23

1000 tonnes

Question 24

When was the Berlin Airlift?

Answer 24

1948

Question 25

When was NATO created?

Answer 25

1949

Question 26

When did Starlin create the GDR (German Democratic Republic)?

Answer 26

Oct 1949

Question 27

When was the FRG (Federal Republic of Germany) created?

Answer 27

3 days after the Berlin Airlift, Trizonia was renamed

Question 28

When was Layercake tested?

Answer 28

1949 (SU’s first Atomic Bomb)

Question 29

When was the first H bomb developed?

Answer 29

1952

Question 30

Who developed the first H bomb?

Answer 30

the US, 1000x more powerful than the atomic bomb, a year later SU developed one

Question 31

When was the first ICBM tested?

Answer 31

1957

Question 32

Who developed the first ICBM?

Answer 32

US, SU developed one later that year

Question 33

When were Germans in the FRG allowed to vote for their own parliament?

Answer 33

1949

Question 34

What was the new Parliament in the FRG called?

Answer 34

Bundestag

Question 35

When was the Warsaw Pact created?

Answer 35

1955

Question 36

Who was elected in 1953?

Answer 36

Eisenhower and Khrushchev

Question 37

When was the Hungarian Uprising?

Answer 37

1956

Question 38

Rakosi?

Answer 38

Ruthless Comm Leader