Cold war tactics

Question 1

List the Cold war tactics

Answer 1

• Espionage
• Sport
• Economic assistance
• Arms race
• Space race

Question 2

Espionage

Answer 2

• CIA, KGB
• American citizens: Julius + Ethel Rosenberg
• Spied for the soviet union collecting top-secret information about radar, sonar and jet propulsion engines to the USSR
• “I consider your crime worse than murder” - Irving Kaufmann (judge)

Question 3

Sport

Answer 3

• Moscow Olympics: 1980, Us boycott to protest
• LA Olympics: 1984, soviet Baycott to protest
• Miracle on ice: 1980, Us hockey team wins Olympic gold

Question 4

Economic assistance

Answer 4

• The United States gave over $12 billion to help rebuild Western European countries. (Marshal Plan)
• Their goals = rebuild war-torn regions, remove trade barriers, modernise industry, improve European prosperity and prevent the spread of communism.

Question 5

Arms Race

Answer 5

• Make weapons to intimidate enemies
• Race for supremacy in nuclear warfare between US and the Soviet union
• 1949 USSR explodes an atomic bomb
• 1952 USA detonates a hydrogen bomb
• shows advances in technology
• 1953 USSR launches ICBM (bomb one side of the earth to the other)
• 1958 USA launches ICBM

Question 6

Space race

Answer 6

• USSR + USA fight for dominance in spaceflight capability
• USSR launches the first human into space: Yuri Gagarin
• USA lands on the moon: Apollo 11 1969